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G-REAT-CRESTED Grebe, NEAR BRADFORD. — A Specimen of the above- 

 named bird was picked up alive, in an exhausted condition, at Shipley 

 Glen, on the 19th of February last, and is now in the possession of Mr. 

 W. Foulds, taxidermist, of Saltaire. — J. W. Carter, Bradford, April 

 18th, 1881. 



Spring Migrants at Ryburne Valley.— I noted the arrival of the 

 swallow on April 9th, willow wren on 11th, wheatear on' moorland first 

 week in April. I saw a pair of golden-crested wrens on March 25th, and 

 they will no doubt nest in the district. Cuckoo and other migrants not 

 arrived at time of writing. — F. G. S. Rawson, Thorpe, Halifax, April 

 16th3 1881. 



Curious Egg. — Yesterday, one of my fowls, a black-red game hen, laid 

 an enormous egg, which on being broken by myself, was found to contain 

 another perfect egg of good average size in its centre. Has this ever 

 been known to occur in the case of any wild bird 'i — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 April 20th, 1881. 



Ichneum.onidce at York. — It may interest the members of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union to know that the following species of Ichneu- 

 monidca have been taken mostly in this neighbourhood. They have been 

 named for me by Messrs. Fitch and Bridgman : — Ichneumon luctatorius 

 found in Edlington Wood, near Doncaster ; I. trilineatns, two examples 

 by searching under bark of alder trees in Askham bog : all the remainder 

 taken in this neighbourhood. Paniscus cephalotes, bred from pupa of 

 Dicranura vinula, P. testaceus, flying round some hawthorn bushes, two 

 specimens ; Eurylahns dims, bred, but am not certain about its host ; 

 Enryproctus nigriceps, four specimens, bred from cocoons of Trichiosoma 

 hetuleti, Pimpla rufata, nncum, and Stercorator, captured at large ; 

 Platylahus pedatorius, Perilissns p)allidus, and Exetastes osculatorius, which 

 I believe are new to the county ; Mesoleius opticus and aidicus, hovering 

 above some willow stumps with larvae and pupse of S. hembeciformis in. 

 These specimens came from the stumps, but whether from these larvae or 

 not I am not prepared to say. TrypJion elongator, Lissonota snlphurifera, 

 and Agrypon canaliculatum, beat out of a hawthorn hedge in September, 

 1879. Ophion minutus, captured flying along a hedgerow. In the Ento- 

 mologist, vol. xiii., page 54, Mr. Bridgman says of this species thai it is 

 new to the British list. This will, therefore, be the second British 

 example. Mesochorns confusus I detected and caught whilst in the act of 

 ovipositing on the larva of Nematus rihesii in 1880. — T. Wilson, Holgate, 

 York, April, 1881. 



Yorkshire Natural History. — The editors of the Entomologists' 

 Monthly Magazine, in reviewing the Transactions of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, make some remarks which are worthy of reproduction. 

 They say : — " The existence of such a multitude of Natural History 

 Societies in a small district (for so Yorkshire is, notwithstanding it is our 

 largest county), is probably an almost unique fact, and we believe we are 



