Cuckoo's Egg in Ring Ouzel's "N"est. — On the 19th May I found a ring 

 ouzel's nest on Harden Moor, which was then approaching completion. 

 A few days after, two of my boys visited the nest, and found it to contain 

 three eggs, one of which they brought in addition to a strange egg, which 

 I at once recognised as that of a cuckoo. This is the first instance that 

 has come to my knowledge of the cuckoo consigning its charge to the care 

 of this species ; and this curious fact in its economy is the more surprising 

 since there were, within a short distance of the nest in question, two tit- 

 lark's nests, both of which contained fresh laid eggs. — E. P. P. Butier- 

 FiELD, Wilsden, June 4th. 



DuNTix AT Malham, &c. — During a ramble to Malham on Whit- 

 Tuesday, my brother and I were much interested in observing the dunlin 

 { Tringa variahilis) about a marshy place near Malham Tarn. My attention 

 was attracted to it from hearing some strange notes which I did not 

 remember having heard before, and going surreptitiously in the direction 

 indicated by the sound, I got within half-a-dozen yards of what I took to 

 be the male bird, which was perched upon a wall. We searched some 

 time for the nest, but without success, as we felt sure the female was 

 sitting somewhere not far away. Its tameness somewhat surprised us, a 

 missile being necessary to be thrown in order to make it fly, although 

 only a few yards of water separated us. The number of birds breeding 

 about the Tarn and moor was remarkable, and their cries bewildering — 

 but still, I thought, according well with surroundings so wild, and in 

 many respects unique. — E. P. P. Butteefield, June 4th. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES.— On June 2nd, Mr. Geo. TindaU and 

 I had another search in the Green Farm Wood, Doncaster, for the larvae 

 of Phycis hetulella, and each of us succeeded in finding specimens, mostly 

 nearly full-grown, on the birch leaves. In the same wood, too, we 

 collected larvae of Tethea subtusa from poplars, a species which does not 

 seem to have been hitherto recorded from Doncaster. During May three 

 beautiful Acronyda alni appeared in my breeding cages, one of them 

 from the larva I found in Edlington Wood, Doncaster, on August 5th 

 last. — Geo. T. Poeritt. 



— Grassixgton. — On August 5th, I took M. expoUta (one specimen), 

 flying leisurely in the hot sunshine about guelder rose (Viburnum 

 opulus) in Grass high wood, Grassington, and saw one, if not two more. 

 It was in much better condition than the one I took at the same j)lace 

 last year, and perhaps if the date of my visit had been fixed a little 

 earlier, or I had stayed in the wood longer, I might have taken a few 

 more specimens. I also took one C unidentaria near Tlu-eshfield. My 

 brother, who paid us a visit a few days previously, turned up L. olivata 

 freely about the highway in Grass wood, and I took one at Threshfield, 



