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seaweeds, and dotted with Actinioe, especially crassicornis and mesem- 

 hryanthemum. Extending about a mile the scar reaches Saltwick 

 Nab, a liassic promontory (and island at high tide) where the 

 adjoining cliff is very low, due to the establishment formerly of alum 

 works. The East Pier on the east, the Nab on the west, on the south 

 the precipitous cliff, and the sea stretching away to the north, form 

 boundaries to a rich hunting ground. To an earnest worker in 

 zoology within and about these precincts is to be reaped a rich 

 harvest. On Saltwick Nab, where some tea gardens are established, 

 are two ponds of fresh water, which at high water can be but few feet 

 above its level ; near the end of one being, when we were there, a 

 fishing coble drawn up out of the reach of the waves. Yet, flavoured 

 as the water must inevitably be with salty spray, Limnoea peregra is 

 to be found crawling about by hundreds, and though their size is 

 small they do not compare unfavourably with their congeners in 

 another pool which caps the cliff at least 100 feet higher, a little 

 beyond the footpath which leads from the cliff to the Nab. Here also 

 were taken Dytiscus marginalis (fem.), Ilybius aier, and Gyrinus 

 hicolor, the latter beetle, like the molluscs, swarming. Descending we 

 find that Ammonitidoe and Belemnitidoe abound, and that Leda ovum 

 is specially abundant, and continues so to the western end of the 

 limit we are considering. 



Searching amongst these rocky pools on the lovely morning 

 succeeding the awfully stormy day Sept. 12th, when nine vessels were 

 wrecked, and Whitby beheld the stormiest day she remembered for 

 ten years past, and which we partly felt as we returned from a fishing 

 smack, — we found marine animals of great interest, numbers of dead 

 jelly-fish, Cyaneoe, Thaumantioe, and occasionally a specimen of 

 Cydippe pileus, which is plentiful off the coast : of sea-urchins, 

 AmpJiidotus cordatus and Echinus sphoera. 



(To he continued.) 



Little Auk at Micklefield, near Leeds. — One of these rare httle 

 birds was shot on the 9th of this month, at Micklefield, and was brought 

 to Mr. Wardman to be stuffed, in whose possession it was seen by Mr. 

 Orassham and myself. — Walter H. Hay, Leeds, Nov. 12th. 



JDicranum scoparium, var. rupestre, m Yorkshire. — The moss given as 

 Dicranum falcatum in the report of the Wharncliffe meeting of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union, has been submitted to Messrs. Hobkirk and 

 Boswell, and is pronounced to be D, scoparium, var. rupestre. This 



