No. 147. 



OCTOBER, 1887. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



A- 



EDITED BY 



AVM. DENISON ROEBUCK, RL.S., 



AND 



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



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



^onf cnfs : 



On the Frequent Occurrence of Whinstone Erratics at Flamborough— /T^z'. 



E. M mile Cole, 1^1. A 



The Sooty Shearwater at Flamborough H%sl6— James Backhoiise, jr., M.B.O.U. 

 Geological Papers relating to the North of England, read at the Manchester 



Meeting of the British Association 



Notes on British \J\c\\Qr\%— Joseph A. Martindale 



Bird-notes from Heligoland for the year ^^^Q—H einrich Gdtke, C.M.Z.S. 

 Note— Desmids 



Desniids of Gormire Lake. — Correction of Error — W. Barzvell Ticrner, 

 F.C.S.. FR.M.S. 



Notes— Entomology 



Acronycta aini and other ISIoths near Scarborough — J. H. Roiviitree ; Sirex 



juvencus near Harrogate, Coleophora obtusella in Lincolnshire, Hemerobius 



concinnus at York — Geo. 7. Porritt, F.L.S. , F.E.S. 



Notes— Botany .. .. 



Linaria minor in Northumberland, Threatened extinction of Sisymbrium Irio at 



Ber\vick-on-T\veed— jP. W. Madagan, M.D.; A Mythical Moss— i^. Arnold 



Lees, M.R.C.S. 



Note— Ornithology 



Brent Goose at Harrogate — Riley Forhnie. 



Note— Fishes 



Whitby Fish-notes — Thos. Stephenson. 



Book Notices 



The Geology of England and Wales : with Notes on the Physical Features of 

 the Country — Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S.; Report on the Migration of 

 Birds in the Spring: and Autumn of i886 ; The Fungus Hunter's Guide — 

 W. Delish Hay, F.R.G.S. 



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