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Naturalist: 



JOUEML OF THE TOEKSHIKE NATUKALISTS' UNION, 



, AND 



GENERAL FIELD GLUB RECORD. 



NEW SH R I ES. 



Edited by Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and G. T. F'orritt, F.L.S. 



No. XLIX. AUGUST, 1879. VOL. V. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Address :— 1 



Original Articles, &c. : — 



Arrival of Spring Migrants in South West Yorkshire— T. Lister 2 



Persistent variation among British Butterflies — S. L. Mosley — Concluded ... 4 



Notes, &c. 



Perching of Redshank — W. Eagle Clarke 10 



Buzzard t'. Kite at Bingley — Do. ... 10 



Cuckoo— C C. Jlansoh ... 11 



Singular conduct of a Cock — G. C. Hanson ... 11 



Breeding of long-eared Owl at Ryther — W. Raine ... ... 11 



Gymnostomun commutatum in Wales — J. Whitehead 11 



Plagiothecium Borrerianun (fr.)at Wetherby — 0. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. ... 11 



Hypnnm imponens in New Forest— Do. 12 



Review 



Outline descriptions of British Coleoptera by Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. ... 12 



Rainfall FOR June ... ... 12 



Reports of Societies 



Barnsley Naturalists' ... ... ... ... 13 



Bradford „ ... ^ 13 



Dewsbury ... ... 13 



Elland-cum-Greetland Naturalists' ... 13 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological ... 14 



Leeds Natviralists' Club 14 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union— Hebden Bridge ... ... ... 15 



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