Cooke : On Scarcity and Abundance in Insect Life. 199 



cient to tempt anyone to find another if it was to be found, but it has 

 failed to do so. 



Extinction of species is going on perhaps to a greater extent than we 

 are at all aware of. Predaceous animals (the wolf, for instance) are 

 fleeing before civilization. Insects, in some degree, are fleeing before 

 cultivation; but my belief is that those which are most useful to man- 

 kind will remain, in so far as they are required — those which are pre- 

 eminently the scavengers of the earth, and those whose office it is to 

 keep in check such as are noxious, and such as are iujurious to 

 agriculture and to cultivation. 



Southport, 1882. 



JlaiufaH for glaij. 





Height 

 of 



Rain- 

 lall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 'JO Datk. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



Heaviest 

 Full. 





ivbove 



sea 

 level. 



Duvs 



1882. 



1881. 



Full. 



HuDDERSFiELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



113 



10 



14-30 



11-99 



25 



0-37 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Rawson) 



3(35 



1-93 



12 



21-77 



17-34 







Leeds ... (Alfred Dennj )... 



183 



1-195 



14 



10-310 



t8-286 



3 



0-510 



HoESFORTH . . . (James Fox) 



350 



1-26 



13 



11-980 



ni-llo 



3 



0-44 



Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



109 



11 



10-42 



9-22 



25 



0-35 



INGBIECHWOKTH (do.) 



853 



1-60 



11 



16-01 



13-22 



3 



0-70 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



1-31 



10 



11-83 



11-50 



25 



0-48 



Goole ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



1-93 



10 



10-61 



8-14 



25 



0 68 



Hull (Derringham) {Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



1-58 



14 



9-80 



7-128 



25 



0-34 



* This is the average to date for 16 years, 1866-81. 

 + Average of 28 years, 1853-62 and 1865-82. 

 X Average of 13 years, 1870-82. 



The Twite, — This bird breeds commonly every season on the high 

 moorlands round Halifax. The eggs usually five or six in number are 

 not unlike those of the lesser redpyle. The nest which is close to the 

 ground is composed of small fibres of heather and lined with wool. — 

 F. G. S. Rawson. 



Nesting of the Ring Ouzel. — During the latter part of last May, I 

 found two nests of the ring ouzel, one on Black-hills, and the other in 

 Cranfield Wood, a picturesque hanger, situated on the slope of the hill 



