Sljort lloles anb Queries. 



Late Migrants near Halifax. - Numbers of swallows and also martins 

 have during the past week been constantly on the wing in the E-yburne 

 Valley. I counted a score yesterday, and many are flying about to-day, 

 October 17th.— F. G. S. Rawson. 



Early Migrations of Birds. — On July 10th, whilst working in my 

 garden, I heard the well-known cry of gulls, and on looking up, had the 

 pleasure of seeing 25 black-headed gulls {Larus ridibnndus) ; they were 

 flying due south, and continued to pass over in twos and threes for nearly 

 a month. July 27th, five curlews {Numenius arqimta) passed over. 

 Aug. 5th, on going out at ten o'clock at night, there was a flock of birds 

 passing over which were very clamorous, but I could not make out their 

 species. Sept. 24th, we have a very large flock of fieldfares (Turdus 

 pilaris) in Mr. John Beaumont's and Mr. R. H. Tolson's parks, at 

 Dalton. This is the earliest date I have of them. Sept 27th, a large 

 flock of swallows passed over, flying due south ; they were all Hirundo 

 rustica. — James Yarley, Huddersfield, Oct, 16th. 



BoTTLE-NosET) DoLPHiNs. — Bottle-noscd dolphins ( Delphinus tursio) 

 in the Huniber and Ouse, have been very numerous this autumn. 

 Three were shot several miles above Goole, and Mr. Jno. Harrison has 

 handed me a rough sketch of one, with its dimensions. Our mem- 

 bers have been very fortunate in finding Volvox qlohatoi' this year. 

 The members of the Y. N. U. who attended Snaith meeting, will 

 probably re]nember obtaining a good supply there ; had any of them been 

 with Mr. Lord and me on the 7th inst., we could have shewn them a 

 series of ponds or delvings reaching two miles, with Volvox in almost all 

 of them. We also found it abundant in a pond at the edge of the moors 

 a fortnight since ; I was much sur^jrised at this, as the place was simply 

 a pond in a peat bog. — Thomas Bunker. 



Cychrus rostratiis in Semerdale. — On the 17th August last, I found 

 a specimen of this rather uncommon though widely distributed beetle 

 amongst stones by the road side, at Counterside, a village near the foot 

 of Lake Semerwater. — Wm. Benison Roebuck. 



Acherontia Atropos at Huddersfield. — I have received a very fine 

 specimen of the death's head moth (Acherontia Atropos) from Mr. Lee, 

 Somerset Road ; it was taken at Brockhoies, Sept. 28th last — J. Yarley. 



Entomological Notes. — Bradford. — The season 1882 is without doubt 

 the worst we ever experienced. In early spring, Phigalia pilosaria was not 

 nearly so common as usual, and this is the more remarkable when we take 

 into consideration the great abundance of larvae feeding in June, 1881. 

 Fieris napi, which last year was very abundant, at Shipley Glen, has this 

 season scarcely been seen ; Abraxas ulmata seems almost to have dis- 

 appeared from Hawksworth, where we usually saw it in thousands, but 

 this season it turned up somewhat commonly at Shipley Glen, where, 

 although we have visited the exact spot once, twice, and three times a 

 week, for several years, we never saw it before. Larentia salicata has 

 not been seen at Shipley Glen, and only one specimen observed in the 



