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the meetings, it would be better if they were furnished to us as notes 

 or papers, and then only referred to in abstract in the reports. 



Eeports of the meetings of Local Societies will always be gladly 

 received and inserted. It should be understood, however, that as our 

 space is limited, discursive reports would occupy too much room. 

 Papers on ISTatural History subjects read at these meetings, if of 

 sufficient general interest and value, and containing original matter, 

 should be sent for insertion as " Original Articles," under which 

 heading we shall also be glad to publish original papers not read at 

 any meeting. 



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AERIVAL OF SPRING MIGRANTS IN SOUTH 

 WEST YORKSHIRE. 



By Thos. Lister. 



The whole of our summer migrants known to South- West Yorkshire 

 having arrived, I give a complete list for the present as compared 

 with the past year, and the average for ten years, as I think it will 

 be interesting to compare these dates. There are some exceptionally 

 early arrivals which may be considered accidental ones (where this is 

 the case a second date is given), as many individual birds, and the 

 main body of all the species, were later. One thing was remaikable 

 in the late comers — they did not sing or utter their usual call notes 

 for many days after they had been seen. They appeared starved, 

 having found only scanty leafage to shelter them. The cuckoo did 

 not sing for ten days after it was seen, also the willow warbler and 

 the chiffchaff. The wood warbler was not heard nor seen again, after 

 being first observed, for more than a month. The fact of this season, 

 on account of its severity, being the most remarkable which naturalists 



