No. 134. 



SEPTEMBER, 1886. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



AND 



. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., 



MRER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



Contents : 



- PAGE 



Hymenoptera captured near York in 1883 and 1884 .. .. .. .. ..257 — 259 



Bibliography :— (Birds, I885) .. .. .. .. .. . . 260—272 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Pickering .. .. 273—275 



Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire— John W. Ellis, L.R.C.P., &>c. 285—288 



New British Lichens — Joseph A. Mar tindale .. .. ,. 279 



Notes— Entomology :— .. .. 276 



Diptera and Hymenoptera near Louth, Lincolnshire — H. Wallis Kew, F.E.S.; 

 Spilodes palealis near Whitby — Joseph T. Sewell. 

 Notes — Ornithology:— , 277,278 



Reed Warbler nesting near Ripdn — R. A . Summerfield; The Hawfinch nesting at Boston 

 Spa— J. Emmet ; Departure of Hooded Crows from England — J. H. Gumey, Jim. ; 

 Quail nesting in Lincolnshire — Jas. Eardley Mason ; Little Grebe in Wensleydale — 

 E. Chapman ; Bird-notes from Thorpe, near Halifax — F. G. S. Rawson ; Bird-notes 

 from Whitby — Thomas Stephenson; Notes on Notts. Birds — J. Whitaker; Brent 

 Geese (Bernicla brenta) and Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) in Nidderdale — 

 Wm. Storey. 



Note— Zoophytes : — 



Plumatella repens near Leeds — W. Chapman. 

 Notes — Mammalia: — 



The Marten in Northumberland — E.Anne; Porpoise near Whitby — T. Stephenson 



Note — Fishes : — 



Doree (Zeus faberL.)at Flamborough — M.Bailey; Whitby Fish-notes— T.Stephenson, 



Note — Palaeontology : — . . . . 



Fossil Tree at Clayton — J?. A. A damson, F.G.S. 

 Microscopic Life near Askern — W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., F.R. M.S. ., 



Spurn Head — Lewis L. Kropf 



Book Notices :— 



(The Book of Duck Decoys, by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart.; Lord Lilford's 

 Coloured Figures of British Birds ; Report on the Migration of Birds in 1885 ; Code 

 of Nomenclature and Check-List of North American Birds.) 

 Notes and News .. 283,284 



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