No. !4Q.< i^ 



MARCH, 1887. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTOR Y FOR THE NOR TH OF ENGLAND, 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



AND 



WM. EAGLE CEARKE, F.L.S., 



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



Contents 



T. 



PAGE 



65 & 66 



67 to 69 

 70 & 71 

 72 to 74 



Some Rare Mosses in Westmorland— C. H. Binstead, B.A 



Lepidoptera, etc., on the North-east Coast of Yorkshire, in August ^3BQ~Geo 



Porritt, F.L.S 



Micro-Zoology and Botany of Askern — Rev. Francis H. AUeji 



Some Footprints in the Snow — JoJm Cordeatix, M.B.O. U. .. 



Local Specimens of Rare Birds in the Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne — J. T. T. Reed 75 to 78 

 Ornithological Notes from Lincolnshire and Norfolk— C/zwr V. Aplin .. . . 79 & 80 



Ornithological Notes from Redcar in 1886—7'. H. Nelson, M.B.O. U. 81 to 83 



An Unrecorded Occurrence of the Golden Eagle in YorksUWe— Herbert Prodkm?! .. 84 



Notes on Decapodous Crustacea found at Redcar —Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A 85 & 86 



Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire— y^j/^w \V. Ellis, L.R.C.P., 6r'c. 93 to 96 



Notes— Ornithology :— .. 74,78,80,83,84 



Varieties of Common Wild Duck and Peregrine in Notts. — y. Whitaker, F.Z.S. ; 

 Ringed Gtiilleniots near Redcar — T. H. Nelson, M.B.O. U. ; Water-rail near Louth, 

 Lincolnshire — H. IVallis New, F.E.S. ; P31ackbird laying in Thrush's Nest, and 

 Albino Birds observed near Harrogate — F. R. Fitzgerald ; Birds at Flamborough — ■ 

 Matthew Bailey ; Land-rail at Barton-on-Humber — E. W. Wade ; Great Grey 

 Shrike in Nidderdale — IV. C. Clarkson ; Hawfinch and Pink-footed Geese at 

 Harrogate — Riley Fortmie ; Occurrence of the Hawfinch in Wensleydale — Edzud. 

 Chapynan. 



Note— Conchology :— 86 



Scalariform Planorbis spirorbis near Bingley— A. Hargreaves, M.C.S. 



Note— Hymenoptera :— 



Sawflies in Cheshire — P. Cameron, F.E.S. 



Note— Hemiptera:— . 



Acanthosoma hseniorrhoidalis washed up on the coast of Lincolnshire — J. E. Mason. 



Notes— Lepidoptera: — 



Lycsena age-tis in Upper Wharfedale — y. W. Carter; Variation in Lepidoptera from 

 various localities — H. Goss, Sec, Ent. Soc. ; Catocala fraxini m North Lincolnshire 

 —r<. Garjit. 



Note — Fungi : - 



Hygrophorus sciophanus Fr. near Kendal — C . H. Waddell. 



Notes — Palaeontology : — 71 



Post-tertiary deposits at Boston — VV. H. Wheeler, C.E. ; Discovery of a Fossil Tree 

 at Ilk ley— 6'. A. A damson, F.G.S. 



Book-Notices: — 871091 



(Hay's Elementary Text Book of British Fungi ; Walton's Geology of the District 

 between Market Weighton and the Humber ; Strasburger's Hand-book of Practical 

 Botany; Lord Liiford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands ; British 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders; Pond Life — Insects; miscellaneous short notices.) 

 Notes and News 92 



66 

 66 

 66, 69 



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