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JOUENAL OF THE YOEESHIRE NATURALISTS' UKIOX. 



6EITSRAL FIELD CLUB RECORD. 



NEW SERIES 



Edited by Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. 



No. LII. 



NOVEMBER, 1879. 



VOL. V. 



CONTENTS. 



Original Articles, &c. : — 



Notes on the Buzzard (Buteo vulgaris). — Wm. Eagle Clarke 



On some causes which seem to operate in the production of varieties in 

 Lepidoptera. — S. L. Mosleu 



Notes, &c. :— 



Perching of the Redshank. P. P. Butterfield 



Dusky Petrel. — J.Spurling ... : 



Great-Crested Grebe, &c., near Goole. — Thomas Bunker 



Kite V. Buzzard. — James Varley 



The Pochard at Huddersfield. — James Varley 



Scarcroft Birds. — James Varley 



Crossbill and Turtle Dove breeding near York. — W. Raine 

 Abundance of Lithosia quadra in the New Forest. — J. G. Ross 

 Stauropus fagi and Acronycta alni in Gloucestershire. — A. E. Hodgson 

 Bulimus pbscurus vsiT. alba in Yorkshire. — Editors 



Abnormal Plants. — J. A. Wheldon 



Correction. — W. Raine 



Note on a Correction. — F. A. Lees, F.L.S. 

 Correction and Additions. — Wm. West 



Rainfall foe September 



Reports of Societies : — 



Bamsley Naturalists' 



Bradford 



Elland-cum-Greetland Naturalists' . . . 

 Huddersfield Scientific Club ... 



Manchester Cryptogamic 



AYakefieid Field Naturalists' 



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