No. 124. 



NOVEMBER, 1885. 



MONTHLY 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. 



gotttcnts : 



PAGE 



361 to 364 



Notes on the Avifauna of Upper T&es^aAe—Jaitzes Backhonse^j'un., M.B.O.U. 

 (Conclusion) 



Micro-Paleeontology of the Northern Carboniferous Shales — G.R. Vine .. ..367 to 378 

 (Part VI., and last. — Carboniferous Shales. Northumberland and North Lancashire, &c. 

 Scaur Limestone and Yoredale Rocks. Foraminifera, &c.) 



Ornithological Notes:— 364, 365 



The Yorkshire specimen of the Rustic Bunting ; Former occurrence of Black Game on 

 the Blubberhouses Moors — Sir Ralph Payiie-Gallivey, Bart., M.B.O. U.; Flamborough 

 Bird-notes — Matthew Bailey ; Notes on the Avifauna of Wensleydale — Breeding of Red- 

 wing and Dunlin — F. Arnold Lees. 



Conchological Notes:— 366 



Bulimus acutus in Co. Antrim — S. A. Stewart^ M.Bot.S.Edin.; Amalia gagates in North 

 Lincolnshire — Win. Denisoii Roebitck, F.L.S. 



Entomological Note :— 366 



The process of Skin-casting in a Lepidopterous larva — Ednvard Howgate. 



Botanical Note: — 378 



Polypodium alpestre in the South of England — George Massee, F.R.3I.S. 



Palseontological Notes:— .. .. .. 37& 



Large Ammonite at Hessle— A^. F. Dohree : Mammalian Remains at Kelsey Hill, 

 Holderness — Id. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Blubberhouses 379 to 382 



Book Notices : — 382, 383 



Report on the Migration of Birds in 1884 ; Geo. Roberts' Topography and Natural History 

 of Lofthouse and its Neighbourhood. 



Notes and News 383 



Meteorological Returns for August 1885— (Edited by Geo. Paul, F.G.S., F.R.Met.S.) .. 384 



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