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snow-buntings, these visitors from the moorland hills in wintry storms 

 have been more numerous than usual. Wild ducks and geese have 

 moved about restlessly. Mr. Hutchinson reported to the meeting 

 eleven wild geese, Jan. 30th ; also a wild swan on the 31st, in the Dearne 

 Yalley. The rarest bird is reported by Mr. H. Garland, who has the 

 specimen in his collection at Woodhall ; it is the cirl bunting obtained at 

 Bolton-on-Dearne, Jan. 12th. I only find one record of it in South 

 Yorkshire, by Neville Wood, at Campsall in 1837. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 1st, the president in 

 the chair. — Mr. J. W. Carter read an interesting paper on "The 

 Additions to the Local List of Lepidoptera," in which he stated that six 

 species of macro-lepidoptera had been added to the locality list during 

 the past year, also ten species of Pyrales, hitherto not recorded, were 

 added. The macro-lepidoptera were as follows : — V. maculata, E. 

 angularia, T. batis, X. silago, and L. rujicinctata. In addition to the 

 above Mr. Carter exhibited a number of varieties, amongst which were 

 A. hetularia (black var.), P. pilosaria, a black variety frequent in this 

 district ; X. rurea, H. defoliaria (a dark unicolorous form), and A. fuli- 

 gmosa. The j)resident exhibited a number of fossils from Bournemouth. 

 Mr. J. Firth exhibited most of the species of British lepidoptera the 

 females of which are wingless. Mr. J. Saville reported the snow 

 bunting from Rombolds Moor. 



Meeting Feb. loth, the president in the chair. — Mr. J. N. Lee gave 

 an instructive lecture on " Stonehenge : or a Ramble on Salisbury 

 Plain," in which he described the famous ruins of Stonehenge, and 

 referred to the various theories respecting their origin, Mr. Hyde 

 exhibited two interesting fossils ; the president exhibited and made 

 remarks upon the following mosses : Hypnum virescens, Malham ; Bryum 

 argenteum, var. lauatwn, Blackpool ; Dicrandla heteromalla, var. elata, 

 and Hypnum ochraceum, var. flaccidum, Marsden ; Dicranum scoparium, 

 var. alpestre, Fairfield ; Bryum atropnrpureum, var. gracilentum, West- 

 moreland ; Weissia viridula, var. amhlyodon, and Webera annotina, var. 

 angustifolia, Castleton, Derbyshire ; Fterigynandrum filiforme, Glen 

 Tilt ; Dicranum fuscesccns, var. angustifolia, Glen Lui ; and the 

 following from Ben Lawers : — H. sarmentosum, var. subflavum ; H. 

 exTiinulatum, var. purpurascens : Didymodon rubellus, var. serridatus, 

 Bistichium capillaceum, var. brevifolium ; Lichodontium pellucidum, var. 

 fugimontanum, and Lescurcea mutabilis—ih.e latter species new to Britain, 

 collected by Mr. West whilst on a ramble in the Scottish highlands last 

 summer. — H. T. Soppitt, Hon. Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD Naturalists' Society. — Meeting 12th Feb., Mr. A. 

 Mackenzie in the chair. — Geology was well represented by some good 

 specimens brought and named by the chairman, among them being a 



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