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The Naturalist. 



Tetracyclus lacustris, R. P. pluvialis, L. 



Tabellaria flocculosa, Horsforth Pandorina morum, Be, York. 



Gonium pectorale, Wortley 

 ^. VOLVOCINE^. y^i^^^ globator, Be, Ht. 



Protococcus viridis, common 



Gatherings and determinations made by J. Abbott, W. B. Turner, 

 F.C.S., &c., and F. Emsley, August 1878, to August 1879. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club, 

 29th Aug., 1879. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1879. 



1878. 



Fall. 



HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 4-18 



21 



21-68 



* 20-07 



16 



0-58 



Leeds ... (H. Crowther) ... 



183 



4-10 



18 







16 



0-68 



Halifax...(F. G. S. Eawson) 



360 



5-60 



21 



30-99 



28-58 







Barnsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



4-54 



19 



22-99 



18-07 



17 



2-02 





853 



5-39 



16 



28-07 



27-44 



17 



0-73 



■VVentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



5-02 



15 



24-86 



]9-07 



17 



1-61 



GOOLE ... 



25 



3-30 



17 



18-69 



14-96 



2 



0-70 



* This is the average to date for 13 years, 1866-78. 



The Hawfinch at Huddersfield. — On the 2nd inst., I had the 

 pleasure, for almost an hour, of watching a beautiful hawfinch in my 

 garden. I was under the impression this bird was usually considered a 

 very shy one, but this was as fearless as a robin. When first seen, it was 

 feeding on the seeds of the grass growing at the edge, and on the gravel 

 drive, twelve or fifteen yards from the front door of the house, but it 

 gradually worked its way up to beneath the window, and was for a 

 quarter of an hour or so only from about two to three yards from where 

 I and Mrs. Porritt stood at the window watching it. Although it must 

 have seen us, it did not seem at all alarmed so long as we remained 

 perfectly still ; but a slight noise evidently disturbed it once, when it 

 flew over into the adjoining shrubbery, but was back again on the gravel 

 path in a few minutes. We of course saw every movement, and even 

 every grass seed as the bird pecked them off. The hawfinch has nested 



