44 



The Na-Tuhalist. 



the 'Original description. However this may be, he says, the diagnoses 

 ought to be modified as follows : processus peristomii interni dentibus 

 extemis sequilongi, humiditate conniventibus, apice contiguis." Will 

 some of our Cheshire bryologists examine fresh specimens when fully 

 ripe, and thus confirm these remarks if they find them correct ? — Chas. 

 P, HoBKiRK, Huddersfield, 10th Sep., 1880. 



Cam-pylvpns introjlexus, Brid. — (C. polytrichoides, De. Not.) — has been 

 found in fruit at Oporto, in Portugal, by an English botanist, Mr. Isaac 

 Newton. Although this moss grows in several places in England and 

 Ireland, as well as in various foreign countries, we believe this is the first 

 time it has been found fruiting in Europe. — C. P. H. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Sept. 14th. — The entomo- 

 logical section reported several species to the district, of which the 

 principal were Sesia tipuliformis, Aplecta occulta, Catocala fraxini, and 

 the larvae of Notodonta dictoeoides, Cymatophora fiuctuosa, and Cossus 

 ligniperda. In ornithology, information from Barnsley and neighbouring 

 districts has been received. Pev. W. Elmhirst reports the ring-ousel in 

 his garden at Elmhirst in May ; it had never previously been seen 

 nearer than the moors. In an excursion of the Potherham Naturalists' 

 Society, Aug. 18th, about Conisborough and Sprotborough, several birds 

 were observed, as — swallows and martins with young, whitethroat, whin- 

 chat, daws, and the barn owl. On the occasion of Mr. Lister's attendance 

 as representative of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at the British 

 Association Meeting held in Swansea (where he took part in several 

 discussions interesting to naturalists), he noticed several birds on the 

 coasts and inland — the herring, the lesser black-backed, kittiwake and 

 common gulls, the kestrel and several migrants. On Aug. 27 Mr. Ed. 

 Hailstone writes — ''General congregation of swallows preparing for 

 departure." On the 31st, swallows and martins returned in thousands 

 over Walton Hall and lake ; on the 3rd Sept. the main body departed. 

 Five herons were seen daily, for ten days, fishing on the borders of the 

 lake ; unfortunately they have not bred there since Waterton's time. 

 Sept. 6th, he records the night-jar, in a tree near the grotto. Mr. 

 Lister saw the barn owl flying in broad day over the same place, Sept. 

 11th. The place where the wood or tawny owls sit was pointed out. 

 The chiff-chaff and wiUow- warbler were heard Sept. 13th, and flocks of sand 

 martins were seen over the Calder on the 15th. Mr. H. Garland, of 

 Woodhall, reports the landrail Sept. 5th. The grey flycatcher and whin- 

 chat are reported by Mr. W. Salter near Ackworth School, first week in 

 September. Fifteen Canadian geese flew up the Dearne valley to Bretton 

 lake, Sept. 17th. Three herons seen there Sept. 4th, and kingfishers on 

 the lake and by the Dearne. — T. Lister. 



