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suffer much to gaze at your lofty presence for one moment's pleasure. 

 And as I love my liege, so do I revere his subjects, and of these I 

 shall now speak. 



(To he continued.) 



NOTES ON THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF YORKSHIRE, 



1881-1883. 



By Wm:. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., and Wm. Denison Roebuck. 



It is our intention to prepare from time to time — annually if possible 

 — a report upon the vertebrate fauna of Yorkshire, in which we 

 propose to embody not only notices of the rarer and more interesting 

 occurrences in the county during the period covered by the scope of 

 the report, but also such records of older date as may have escaped 

 our attention during the compilation of our Handbook of the 

 Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire," together with such emendations and 

 corrections of the statements contained therein as may seem to be 

 called for. 



The scope of the present report includes the period of time which 

 has elapsed since the publication of our Handbook in the autumn 

 of 1881 down to the end of 1883. The records in our hands for the 

 present year are reserved for a future paper. This report includes 

 notices of the kind above indicated concerning 87 species, of which 

 the following ten appear to be additions to the Yorkshire list : — 

 R}iinoloj)hus Jiipposideros^ Emheriza rustica, Torpedo Jieodans, Raja 

 maciilata, Auxis rcchei, Tracliypteriis ardicus, Regalecus grillii, E/igraidis 

 e7icradcJiolus, and OrtJiagoriscus trioicatus. But in addition to these 

 there are various occurrences we have to record which are of special 

 interest, such as those of Vespertiiw Natter eri, V. riiydacinus. and 

 JDelpliiniis tiirsio among the Mammalia, of Turdus varius, Cyanecida sp ? 

 Cypselus melha, Botaurus lentiginosus, Ardea garzetta, and the breeding 

 in the county of Querquedula cirda and Spatula dgpeata among the 

 Birds, and the occurrence of Brarm Bali, Mugil septeutrionalis, 

 Regalecus Ba-nJcsii, Ctenolabrus rupestris, NeropJiis cequoreus, and AtJie- 

 rina presbyter among the Fishes. 



The Numerical Summary of species now stands as in the following 

 table, the British forms being also given for comparison : — 



