No. 127. 



FEBRUARY, 1886. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



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



" _ AND ' '' J - ( , '/ 



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



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH OK N ITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



(Eonfents : 



Notes on Freshwater Algee, with descriptions of New Species— 



W. Harwell Turner, F. C.S.. F. R . M. S.,( with Pla te) 



Ornithological Notes from the Northumberland Coast — A. C. Chapman 

 Notes on the Two Spotted Eagles inhabiting the European Continent-- 



J. H Gnrney, F.Z S., M.B O.U 



Additions to the Lichen Flora of Westmoreland — Joseph A. Martindale 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire (Part ii, Sphinges)— 



John IV. Ellis, L.R.C.F., L.R.C.S.E., &c 



A September Walk through Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire — 



T. D. A. Cockerell, M.C.S ^ 



Notes — Mammalia: 



Albino Moles in Coverdale and Nidderdale — Wvi. Storey : Red Deer in Nidderdale — 

 Id. ; Records of Captures of Badgers in Yorkshire — Geo. Roberts ; Former occurrence 

 of Badgers in North Lancashire — Robert Standen. 



Notes— Ornithology : ... 



Nidification of Ring Ouzel and Missel Thrush — H . G. 'Fomliusou ; Young; Skylarks 

 fed by an older nestling — H. G. Pearson ; Late Brood of Swallows — T. W. Brewis ; 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Grasshopper Warbler nesting in Nidderdale — 

 Wm. Storey, Light-coloured Grouse in Nidderdale — Id.; Quail in North Lanca- 

 shire — H. G. Pearson; Stone Curlews on the Yorkshire Wolds — R. Mortimer. 



Note— Mollusca : . .. .. .. .. 



Achatina acicula (the Needle Agate Shell)— C. T. Musson, F.L.S. 



Notes— Lepidoptera : .. 



Heliothis peltigera in Cheshire — John W. Ellis, L.R.C P.; Acherontia atropos and 

 Sphinx ligustri near Barnsley — IV. E. Brady. 



Notes- -Botany : ... -,«.... .AdM.I1 f 4. 



Araucaria producing Seed in East Yorkshire — E. IV. Wade ; Trientalis europea in 

 Nidderdale— J. E. Clark, B.A., B.Sc., F.G.S.; Manchester Cryptogamic Society; 

 Bradford Naturalists' Society— A Year's Botanical Work—//. T. Soppitt and 

 W. West. * 1 8 V 



Book Notices: — .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 



(Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science, No. 3 ; Buckle}' and Harvie 

 Brown's Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherlandshire : Transactions of the Leeds Geological 

 Association, Part I.) 

 Notes and News: — 



Meteorological Returns for November 1885 — (Edited by Geo. Paul, F.G.S., F.R.Met. 



33 to 35 

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45—47 

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55" -59 



36 



58 



49 & 54 



59, 60 



61, 62 



62, 63 

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