Nattbrer's Bat at Pateley Bridge. — I have just received a living 

 specimen of this bat from my correspondent, Mr. William Storey, of 

 Pateley Bridge, who took it in that town on the evening of the 18th 

 May. It is thus interesting to confirm its existence in that district, from 

 which he sent it to me in June of last year, and one would think that it 

 likewise occurs in other localities in the north of England, as bats are 

 generally much overlooked. Its nearest allies are the whiskered and 

 Daubenton's bats, from both of which it may be most readily distinguished 

 by the smaller number of transverse lines which are to be counted in the 

 interfemoral (or tail) membrane when held up to the light. There are 

 only eight, whereas in the other two they number sixteen or more. I 

 should be glad to hear of its occurrence in other places. — Wm. Denison" 

 EoEBUCK, Leeds, May 19th, 1884. 



Birds near Halifax. — The swallow arrived here (Ryburne Valley) 

 on April 13th, the same date as last year ; the martin and sand-martin 

 not appearing before April 29th, a later date than usual for this species ; 

 Ray's wagtail was here on April 26th, and the sand-piper and cuckoo on 

 May 1st, the latter, a few days later than generally. Owing to the mild 

 weather, birds commenced to nest earlier than usual, and young thrushes, 

 blackbirds, and robins were on the wing at the end of April. Resident 

 and migratory birds are all very plentiful this spring in this district, and 

 young birds will be numerous. — F. G. S. Rawson, May 9th, 1884. 



Eggs of Pied Wagtail. — At the meeting of our society, on the 17th, 

 at Hessle, one of the party found a pied wagtail's nest with thirteen eggs. 

 Is this not an extraordinary number, even if the nest were tenanted by 

 two hens ? One bird was on the nest, and I saw the eggs ; of their 

 identity there can therefore be no mistake. — N. F. Dobr6e, president of 

 the Hull Field Naturalists' Society. 



Large Halibut. — I saw to-day, on a fish-monger's slab in Hull, a 

 halibut taken by a fishing smack off the Dogger, which I measured to be 

 6 feet 9 inches long, and weighing rather over 20 stones. This fish is 

 abundant in our market, but rarely reaches anything like this size, 

 though it is said to be common in more northern seas.— N. F, Dobree, 

 Hull, 2Ist May, 1884. 



The Holly Blue Butterfly in Nidderdale. — I wish to record a fresh 

 Yorkshire locality for Lyccena Argiolus, Mr. Wm. Storey having sent it to 

 me from Guyscliffe, near Pateley Bridge, where he took it (a female 

 specimen) on the I7th May. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Leeds, May 19th, 

 1884. 



OBITUARY. 



Edwin Birchall. — By the death of Edwin Birchall, Yorkshire loses 

 another who, in his day,, proved himself to be one of its ablest and most 

 gifted lepidopterists — a man of European repute as a student of that 

 order, and one whose philosophical tendencies raised him so much above 



