No. 142. 



MAY, 1887. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL Ol- 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S. , 



ME.MHEK OF THK BRITISH OKN' ITHOI.OCISTS UNION. 



Contents : 



Notes on the Black-headed Gull near Garstang— y. A. Jackson 129 to 132 



Ornithological Notes from Northumberland and Durham during 1885— /i". Fortune xyz^ixi^^ 



Land and Freshwater Shells in the neighbourhood of Whitby— //. Pollard .. 134 to 138 



Balsenoptera musculus at Skegness — Thomas Soitthivell, F.Z.S . . 139& 140 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee's Schedule 141 & 142 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Annual Meeting at Dewsbury 14310147 



Lancashire Land and Freshwater Mollusca— i?. Standen, 3I.C.S i5S to 160 



Notes— Ornithology :— .. .. .. 132,138,140 



Leach's Petrel in I-iucolnshire — F. B. WJiitlock ; Barn Owl Feigning Death — RUey 

 Fortune ; Puffins in the Humber in February — //. y. Robinson Pease; Redshank in 

 Northumberland — Riley Fort^ine \ Common Buzzards near Whitby — W, H. S. 

 Pyina7i ; Great Grey Shrike near Harrogate ; Riley Fortune. 



Obituary Notice — (Alfred Roberts) 140 



Book Notices: — .. .. .. 14810154 



(Fowler's Coleoptera of the British Isles ; Reade's Origin of Mountain Ranges.) 



Notes and News 147 & 154 



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