No. 109. 



AUGUST, 1884. 



JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



AND 



WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S. , 



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



The Spurn— yo^n Cordeaiix 



Reu-breasted Flycatcher in Northumberland— Bolam 



Teesdale Botany — James Backhouse 



The Seven Sleepers in Manx Tradition— 5^. M. Jeffcott. 14 



Deposit of Lacustrine Marl in West Yorkshire — Prof. G. A. Lebour, M.A., F.G.S. .. 16 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Hawes 17 



Ornithological Notes 9 & 19 



Nesting of Twite at Thome, T. Bunker ; Breeding of Hawfinch in Durham and Northum- 

 berland, W. E. Clarke, F.L.S.; Avifauna of Washburndale, Lord Walsuigham, M.A., 

 F.L.S. &^ W. E. Clarke, F.L.S.; Great Tit and Bees, J. Whitaker, F.Z.S.; Spring 

 Birds near Mansfield, J. Whitaker, F.Z.S. 

 Conchological Notes.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..20 



Unio pictorum at Ossington, W. Gain; Paludina contecta in Yorkshire, W. Nelson; Slugs 

 in CO. Durham, IV. D. Roebuck, F.L.S. ; Zonites radiatulus v. viridescenti-alba in York- 

 shire, IV. Nelson. 



Botanical Notes _ 13 & 21 



Dewsbury district flora, P. F. Lee; iEscidium pimpinellse v. apii, Thomas Dennis; Man- 

 chester Cryptogamic Society; Physcomitrium pyriforme, C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.; Rosa 

 tomentosa in Notts., W. Gaitt F. A. Lees. 



Miscellaneous 8 & 15 



Ornithological impossibilites, C. M. Adamson; Eupoeciha dubltana at Huddersfield, G. T. 

 Porritt, F.L.S. 



Book Notices (Gurney's 'Diurnal Birds of Prey' and Ibbotson's 'Ferns of York') .. ..22 



Notes and News ^ 22 



Rainfall 24 



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