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all abundant. Litliosia stramineola occurred now and then amongst 

 a lot of its brother griseola, and L. complanula also accompanied 

 them. 



Mr. Daltry had sugared early in the evening. This, in the fens, 

 takes a good deal more time and labour than it does in the " rides " 

 of a wood, for, as you will at once have called to mind, there are no 

 tree trunks on which to brush the beguiling liquor. We found the 

 method there was to tie together several of the stems of the reed, or 

 sedge, and put the sugar " on the knot formed by the tie. In this 

 way Apamea fibrosa was taken pretty commonly, but little else visited 

 the sugar this night. 



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Deilephila galii near Bradford. — I have just had the pleasure of 

 adding to my collection a specimen of D. galii. It was taken at Wibsey- 

 Slack last August, and is in very fair condition. — J. W. Carter, Man- 

 ningham, Bradford, Feb. I7th, 1879. 



Linota linaria at Cottingley. — On the 4th February last, I saw a 

 mealy redpoll {Linota linaria) feeding upon the seeds of the alder, by 

 the side of the river Aire, near Cottingley Bridge. It was in company 

 with lesser redpolls {Linota rvjescens) and as I afterwards found siskins. 

 So hoary did it appear at the first blush, that I took it to be the Arctic 

 form of redpoll {Linota Hornemanni), but I subsequently satisfied myself 

 that it was the above mentioned species, though in the absence of any 

 clear differentiating features, it is very difficult to identify them beyond 

 the possibility of a doubt, without actual examination. It was, however, 

 considerably lighter coloured than the examples of mealy redpolls shot at 

 Manywells last year. As my brother and I were going to the Exhibition 

 on the 11th January last, we saw a strange bird which we took to be a 

 grey shrike, flying over the railway lines to the south of Shipley Station. 

 One of this species was shot a few years ago in the Goit Stock Valley, 

 and after passing through several hands ultimately got into the possession 

 of Mr. P. Dalton, Bingley.— E. P. P. Butterfield, Wilsden, Feb. 6th. 



Schimper's Synopsis. — As I am unwittingly the cause of the present 

 discussion in the Naturalist on the mistakes in Schimper's Synopsis, 

 through making the remark that S. tristidia was not only new to York- 

 shire, but new to England also, I think I can claim a right to have a say 

 in the matter. I have also another reason, and that is, that my name, a3 

 the discoverer of several rare mosses, is often omitted or misplaced in the 



