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The Naturalist. 



FoALiia OF NiDDERDALE. — Can any reader of the Naturalist furnish 

 authentic information as to whether any of the following species of mam- 

 maha and birds occur in the drainage basin of the Nidd ? — the great bat, 

 the common weazel, the stoat, the longtailed field-mouse, the common 

 rat, the water shrew, the peregrine falcon, the hobby, the bam owl, 

 tawny owl, long-eared and short-eared owls, the black-cap, sedge 

 warbler, grasshopper warbler, and garden warbler. None of these appear 

 to have been recorded for any part of this extensive valley. While on the 

 subject I will add that I shall be glad to see information of any kind 

 with respect to the Fauna of Nidderdale in any of its branches. — Wm. 

 Deklson Roebuck, Sunny Bank, Leeds. 



Anemone nemorosa var. ccBrulea. — It is surprising that so beautiful and 

 distinct a variety as the above plant should be, without exception, 

 entu'ely overlooked by writers of our descriptive English Floras. Many 

 describers mention the common " purple " variety, but none a blue one, 

 and blue the present plant undoubtedly is ; its color being very little 

 paler than that of typical apenrdna. It difi"ers botanically of course, from 

 the latter species, viz : — by its fewer and broader sepals, and its tuber 

 being slender and nearly uniform, not knobbed at the end as in apennina. 

 I beUeve this blue variety was once mentioned in an early number of the 

 PhytoJogist, or another contemporary publication ; but I have no 

 knowledge of a more recent record. It has been found in several of the 

 southern counties ; it would be interesting to hear of its occurring 

 further north, Yorkshire especially. Like Anemone apennina it shows 

 variations of color, some plants being paler than others ; but in its 

 extreme form it difiers very little from that species. - George Webster, 

 Holgate, York. 



^lainfall for gmmbr. 





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. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 2-41 



8 



28-93 



* 32-54 



31 



1-00 



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



183 



1-33 



10 







30 



0-32 



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



360 



3-76 



9 



t 4210 



45-44 







Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



1-61 



10 



28-05 



26-11 



30 



0-41 



INGBIECHWOBTH (do.) 



853 



3-00 



10 



37-83 



39-54 



31 



1-10 



Wentwobth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-04 



8 



31-83 



27-83 



31 



0-47 



GOOLE ... 



25 



0-88 



12 



23-36 



24-01 



31 



0-20 



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

 t The rainfall is 5-00 in. below the average of the last 10 years. 



