HERMAPHRODITISM IN SATURNIA CARPINI. 



Whitby, Yorkshire. — On the 28th May last, two (a male and 

 female) out of a flock of about twenty Sand-grouse were shot at 

 Carr Hill, near Whitby, whilst feeding on some clover ; the female, 

 which I saw in the flesh, has been preserved by Mr. J. H. Wilson of 

 this town, who found the crop full of clover. It is exactly a quarter 

 of a century since the specimen in our local museum was shot when 

 in company with three others feeding on recently-sown barley at 

 Newholm near Whitby, viz.. May 1863. — Thomas Stephenson, 

 I, Haggersgate, Whitby, June i8th, 1888. 



Pickering, Yorkshire. — It may be of interest to know that 

 the Sand-Grouse have reached the neighbourhood of Pickering. 

 A lot of ten birds was seen on Allerston Warren Farm on Sunday, 

 3rd June ; and again on Tuesday, the 5th June, by another observer, 

 ten or twelve were seen near the same spot, most probably the same 

 birds. The birds were seen on my brother's farm here by his foreman 

 hind on the first occasion, and by two of the men on the second. 

 I think they had taken their departure on the Tuesday, as I had a 

 long look for them that day and on the two following days without 

 seeing anything of them. The foreman, who is a keen observer of 

 natural history subjects, had a close and long observation of the 

 birds, and gave me a capital description of them, which left no 

 doubt as to their identity. — Herbert Prodham, Allerston, near 

 Pickering, June 12th, 1888. 



Nidderdale, Yorkshire. — On the 8th June (Friday) I received 

 a letter from Mr. Wm. Smorfitt of Darley, Ripley, Yorks., regretting 

 that he had not seen me on the previous Wednesday, as he had shot 

 two birds and did not know what they were, but he was having them 

 preserved. I wTOte him by return, suggesting that they were probably 

 Sand-Grouse, and giving him a description of the bird. In reply 

 he wTOte — ' The two birds I shot are undoubtedly what you have 

 described, Sand-Grouse. Five were on some oats and tares sown 

 with clover and hay seeds in a field near the dam. From their note 

 or scream I could imagine I saw one near the dam two years ago.' 

 The ' dam ' he alludes to is on the edge of the moors, and in his 

 former letter he told me he shot the two birds not very far away 

 from it. — Rd. Paver-Crow, Ornhams Hall, Boroughbridge, June loth. 



NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 



Hermaphroditism in the Emperor Moth. — At the meeting of the EiUonio 

 logical Society of London, on May 2n(l, 1888, Dr. Philip Brooke Mason, K.L.S., 

 exhil^ited an hermaphrodite specimen of Sacuniia carpitit from Lincoln. — H. Cioss, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



July i883. 



