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ledge or slielf in its burrow, upon which it rests, above the level of the j 

 burrow itself, and upon this ledge it sticks like wax. On one of our i 

 fishing excursions we visited the place where these badgers were cap- 

 tured, and where others of their species still exist. Following a small 

 beck, we had to force our way at times through the bushes and under- 

 wood, and had several ugly falls where trees had been uprooted and 

 holes left which had grown over with vegetation. Had it not been for 

 the existence within a mile or two of a line of railway, I should have 

 considered this spot to be one of the quietest and most out-of-the-way 

 places left in om: county ; and that in fact it is so, is proved, I think, by 

 the above captures and the continued presence of such an animal as the 

 badger. — Richard Andrews, Leeds, Jan. 20th. 



Nesting of the Kingfisher. — IVIr. Alfred Roberts, of Scarborough, 

 recently communicated to the Leeds Naturalists' Club the following note 

 on the kingfisher continuing to breed in the same hole after a second i 

 robbery of her eggs. In May, 1868, a man brought him six beautiful fresh 

 eggs of the kingfisher, taken from a hole in a bank at Scalby Beck, near 

 Scarborough. In the beginning of June of the same year he brought six 

 more as fresh and fine as the first lot. On being asked from where he 

 had got them, the man said they were from the same nest as those he 

 brought before. In July following, he brought five more from the old 

 nest. 



Arrival of Migrants, 1880. — Swallow, April 16th ; Ray's wagtail, 

 I7th ; willow wren, I7th ; redstart, 17th; cuckoo, Ryburne Valley, 

 20th.— F.'G. S. Rawson, Ryburne Valley, Halifax. | 



A new West Yorkshire Moss — Em-ynchium striatulum. — On Easter 

 Monday, whilst walking with Mr. M. B. Slater from Tanfield to Mickley, 

 I gathered ofi" a fallen tree bole, on a wooded bank half-way between 

 Tanfield bridge and Mickley village by the field path, a quantity of a 

 glossy green, creeping, pinnately-branched moss, with plentiful smooth 

 reddish setae ; but for the most part the sporangia were past their prime, 

 a few only still retaining their long pointed, conical lids. It had to my 

 eyes in the field somewhat the aspect of B. plumosum, or E. myosuroides, 

 and I so remarked to Mr. Slater, who repKed that it was more like a 

 small glareosum. This moss turns out to be Eurynchium striatulum, 

 Spruce ; hitherto known only from Sussex (Mitten), near Castle Howard 

 (Spruce), Somersetshire (Berkeley), North Lincolnshire (Lees), Killarney 

 (Wilson), and Wicklow (Moore) ; and curiously enough, it is a Pyrenean 

 species, which (so far as my present knowledge goes) has hitherto occurred 

 in several of the counties furnishing another Pyrenean species, B. sale- 

 hrosum, Hoffmann. The form found by me in 1877, in Legsby Wood, 

 near Market Rasen, has the leaves somewhat more squarrose, and the 

 branchlets more curved {E. circinnatum-like) than Westphalian and Sussex 

 scraps of the same moss with which Mr. Boswell has furnished me. The 

 Mickley plant is very like the Westphalian. It is a welcome and notable 



