No. 129. 



1 APR ^386 



APRIL, 1886. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 



AND 



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



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



§onfents 



Mosses of Ashton-under-Lyne District (concluded) — John Whitehead 



Descriptions of New British Lichens — Translated by Joseph A. Martindale 



Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire (Part iii, Bombyces) — 



John W. Ellis, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S 



Migration of the Salmonidae (Part ii, Periods of Migration) — 



Francis Day, CLE ., F.L.S ', etc. 



Notes— Mammalia : ..." 



The Badger on the Yorkshire Wolds — Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A.; Badgers in Durham 

 and -Northumberland — J. W. L. M. T. Fawcett ; Otters in Durham — Idem ; 

 Records of Captures of Badgers in Yorkshire — R. Lofthouse ; Badger in Lincoln- 

 shire — J. N. Dufty, F.G.S.; Large Stoat near Boroughbridge — R. Paver- 

 Crow, J. P.', Foumarts near Huddersfield — C. C. Hanson ; Whiskered Bat in 

 Cheshire, and Noctule in Durham — W. De?iison Roebuck, F.L.S. 



Ornithological Notes:— 



Migration of Birds on the West Coast of England and Wales — W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S.; 

 Flamborough Notes — Matthew Bailey; Lapwing — Diversity of Eggs — Charles 

 Ashford; Eagle Owl near Huddersfield — C. C. Hanson and J. H. Gurney, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S, 



Botanical Notes : — 



Rosa lucida in Westmoreland — Herbert Goss, F.L.S., F.E.S.; Additions to the Hull 

 Flora — Ed. Peak ; Manchester Cryptogamic Society's Proceedings. 



Geological land Paleeontological Notes :— 



Jointing in the Magnesian Limestone of the Austwick District — Alfred Harker, 

 M.A., F.G.S.; Joints Cutting through Pebbles — Idem; Asteracanthus ornatissimus 

 in the Middle Oolites near Mai ton— S. Chadwick. 

 Notes and News 



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