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ALBINO KITTIWAKE AT FLAM BOROUGH. 



polates after ' last snow ' the words ' but one.' The diary is carefully 

 indexed, and contains records of the capture of 826 species. This- 

 is a surprising number, for no common things are recorded, thus, 

 fifteen butterflies only are entered, and but two sphinges. Mr. Sang 

 never appears to have followed tliat course so customary now-a-days 

 of collecting macros only to begin w^ith. Even in 1853 the bulk of 

 the entries in the diary are of Tortrices and Tineina. Residing at 

 Darlington, on the borders of Durham, North Yorkshire was as con- 

 venient a collecting-ground as his own county, and those w^ho have 

 examined Mr. Porritt's valuable catalogue of Yorkshire Lepidoptera 

 will know how very much it is indebted to John Sang for the North 

 Yorkshire records. Richmond appears to have been his favourite 

 collecting-ground in that county, but Redcar also had frequent 

 visits. Nor was he altogether a stay-at-home collector. He appears 

 to have visited one time or other, most of the best-knowm localities- 

 — the Isle of jNIan, West Wickham, Darenth, Gravesend, Dover, 

 Folkestone, etc., etc., are all recorded. In 187 1 he spent tw^o days 

 at Folkestone, August 2nd and 3rd, and he appears to have done an 

 extraordinary work, having taken imagines of ten butterflies, fourteen 

 macros, and twenty micros — in all, forty-four species in two days,, 

 common things not included. To attempt to enumerate or to classify 

 his captures is not possible here. The North Yorkshire list, as said 

 above, is incorporated in Mr. Porritt's work ; the Durham captures 

 yet require careful editing, which perhaps Mr. Gardner and I may 

 do before long. 



Mr. Sang was troubled with an internal complaint, which some- 

 times caused him much suffering, and often compelled him to stay 

 at home when he would have preferred to be off in the woods and 

 lanes. But he did not die from this, but from disease of the heart, 

 which carried him off in his sleep, between Saturday, the 19th, and 

 Sunday, the 20th March. He was buried m Darlington Cemetery^ 

 on Tuesday, March 22nd, 1887, beside his mother. 



The name of John Sang will long be remembered in the North 

 of England, and it will be handed down to future generations in 

 GeUcliia sa?igiella, which was named in his honour by his friend and 

 fellow-worker, Mr. H. T. Stainton. — John E. Robson. 



NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 

 Albino Kittiwake at Flamboroug-h. — Strange to relate, another white 

 Kittiwake {Rissa tridaciyla) has been shot at Flamborough this season about 

 four or live miles south of the headland, on the 15th November, 1887, which 

 fell to the gun of Mr. Thos. Leng, who is well known as a crack shot. I bought 

 it. It is a splendid specimen, nearly perfect white, with the exception of a little 

 tinge of very light drab on the primaries on the outer margin, also on the tips of 

 the tail-feathers. — Matthew^ Bailey, Flamborough, November i8th, 1 887. 



Naturalist, 



