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* * Plantago lagopus L. Waste ground at Sandal. 



Linaria minor Desf. Knottingley ; pea field near Kippax. 

 Calamintlia acinos Clairv. Disused lime quarry at Fairburn. 

 Chenopodium vulvaria L. = olidum Curt. Waste ground at 

 Sandal. 



^ Chenopodium murale L. Canal side, below Castleford. 



^ Chenopodium glaucum L. Border of a manure heap, near the 



railway station at ]\Iethley ; also near Pontefract. 

 Beta maritima L. Clover field at ?^Iethley ; and also on the 



hauling path, below Castleford. 

 Beta vulgaris L. Not unfrequent. 

 Salix triandra L. Wressle, near the Derwent. 

 Orchis pyramidalis L. Xear Aberford, and near Glass Houghton. 

 Sparganium ramosum Curtis. Willow garth at ]^Iethley. Pugneys, 



near Wakefield, frequent. Not the new segregate {iieglectuiii), 



as at first thought to be. 

 Acorus calamus L. Plentiful in an off-set canal at Fairburn, in 



flower, July 14th, 1SS5. 

 Carex hirta L. Railway Station yard at Kippax. 

 Carex vulpina L. Canal bank at Fairburn. 

 Bromus erectus Sm. Waste ground near Kippax. 



NOTE ON MAM AT ALIA. 

 Otter near Louth, Lineolnshire.— A specimen of this mammal 



{Littra vulgaris)^ weighing 12 ibs., was caught at ' ^Nlakby Springs' near Louth, 

 on 3rd April, 1885. — H. AVallis Kew, Lee Street, Louth. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE. 

 Whiskered Tern (Hydro chelidon hybrida) in Yorkshire.— 



At the dispersal of the very fine collection of birds formerly belonging to the late 

 Mr. Robert Rising, of Horsey, near Great Yarmouth, most of which were of 

 special interest to Norfolk ornithologists, there were a few birds with the history of 

 which I was not acquainted ; one of these was a AYhiskered Tftni—Hyd/'oc/ielidon 

 hybrida (Pall.). Upon inquiry of Capt. Rising, with regard to this bird, he 

 kindly referred me to ^vlr. Geo. Frederick, in whose collection it formerly was, and 

 that gentleman was so good as to inform me that the bird ' was shot on the river 

 Swale, at Hornby Castle, in Yorkshire, by one of the Duke of Leeds' game- 

 keepers in 1842.' As this bird has not, I believe, been recorded, and I think 

 will be an addition to the Yorkshire list, I have much pleasure in placing it on 

 recQrd. — Thomas Southwf.ll, Norwich, 5th November, 1S85. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTE. 



Heliothis peltigera in the North. — Mr. Porritt is mistaken in 

 supposing that his specimen of this insect is the most northerly capture. I have 

 two in my collection, one taken here, and one at Byers Green, some twelve or 

 fourteen miles further north, and ]Mr. Gardner has also a specimen in his 

 collection that he took here. These were all duly recorded at the time, but I 

 suppose they have escaped Mr. Porritt's notice. — John E. Rcbsox, Hartlepool, 

 October 25th, 1885. 



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