Regulus cristatus at Elland. — This morning, during the bright sun- 

 shine, whilst walking in Elland town-fields, I observed a flock of about a 

 dozen, more or less, of the goldcrest (Regulus cristatus), hovering under 

 the decaying leaves of the sycamore, picking off a kind of green fly, or 

 plant louse which were adhering to the under side. They were very 

 active, similar in their motion to titmice, and uttering a low note which 

 may be spelt " zit, zit." Mr. Cunningham writes to the Halifax Courier- 

 that he also saw a flock (no doubt the same) in the People's Park.. I 

 heard the redwing on the 7th inst. — C. C. Hanson, West Vale, Oct. 

 21st, 1883. 



Goldfinches near Bingley. — As I was coming over Hope-hill (960 

 feetj, with a friend on Nov. 11, a party of goldfinches flew close past us. 

 I had just remarked that some of the thistle-heads were " drilled," but 

 the droppings I thought indicated that it was the work of birds which 

 were superior in size to the goldfinch. It is, I believe, just thirteen years 

 this November since I saw any about this locality. — E. P. P. Butterfibld. 



Late Mackerel and Herring on Yorkshire Coast.— I think it is 

 worth recording how extremely late mackerel and herring have been 

 taken, this autumn, off the Yorkshire coast. The former were exposed 

 for sale, in quantity, in the Hull shops, freshly caught in Bridlington 

 bay, down to the 20th October. Herrings are still offering in the shops 

 to-day, taken at the same place. The mildness of the weather no doubt 

 explains it. — N. F. Dobree, Beverley, 14th Nov., 1883. 



Entomological Notes from Bingley. — Last week I received a few 

 insects (of the names of which I had some doubt) from Mr. Barrett, 

 which I had sent him for determination ; and although one or two are 

 not in such good condition, he says they maybe safely named as follows : 

 Scoparia atomalis, S. conspicualis, S. perterana, P. sordidana, P. semi- 

 fuscana — all of which are additions to the local lepidoptera of this 

 district ; S. atomalis, of which I sent him two specimens I took on 

 Blackhills in July. There were scores of Scoparice flying about at the 

 same time as I took these two, but whether they were all of this species 

 (if it be a species) I cannot say. I called them ambigualis when I took 

 them, and I confess I am puzzled with them now. Conspicualis I thought 

 was a small cemhralis, with which I had had it placed. It was taken, I 

 believe, by my brother last year in the neighbourhood. I have another, 

 however, which I have taken in the district this year — S. perterana. I 

 picked it out from amongst some suhjectana in the neighbourhood of 

 Blackhills. Mr. Firth showed me an insect yesterday, which I take to 

 be this species ; he took it in Shipley Glen this year. P. sordidana and 

 semifuscana I beat from alder trees about a marshy piece of ground in the 

 park adjoining Bingley Wood on the 22nd September last, On the 3rd 

 instant I was on Harden Moor, and E. gelatella was very abundant — nay. 



