1 SL^ 1888 



No. 158. 



SEPTEMBER 1888. 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



^^-£a3,^M. DENISON roebuck, F.L.S., 



^M. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., 



COHRESFONDERENDIR MITGLIEU DES OKNITHOLOGISCHEN VEREINS IN WIEN. 



(Contents 



I 



Bibliography— Mollusca, 1886 and 1887 



Utility of the Barn Owl— J. //. Gur7iey, Jun., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U 



List of Plants noticed at Fylingdales (Robin Hood's Bay) in September 1882 



— C C. Babmgton, M.A., F.J^.S. 



New West Yorkshire Plant (Pyrola rotundifoWa)— F. A. Lees, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 



Notes on the Lapwing near Garstang — J. A. Jackson 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Market Weighton 



Harcourt Bath on British Birds (Review) 



Notes— Mammalia 



Whale at Flamborough — Rlattkeiv Bailey; Lincolnshire Bats— Denisoti 

 Roelntck, F.L.S.; Water Shrew and Field Vole near Ripon — W. Denisoii 

 Roebuck, F.L.S. 



Notes — Ornithology 



Unusual Nesting-site for Missel Thrush — E. P. P. Butterjield and F. A. Lees, 

 M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; Fieldfares near Halifax in July— C. C. Hanson ; 

 Osprey near Alford — Jas. Eardley Mason : Food of Crossbills — Johtt 

 Cordeaux, M.B.O.U. ; Crossbill at the Fame Islands— 7- Gitrney, Jun., 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Notes — Lepidoptera 



Deilephila galii at Bradford — J. IV. Carter; Deilephila galii at Harrogate — 

 Major B. B. Thompson; Deilephila galii at Alford, Lincolnshire — Robert 

 Gar/it \ Deilephila galii at Hartlepool — J. Gardner. 

 Note— Conchology 



Occurrence of Dead Shells of Crepidula fornicata on Grimsby Beach — Arthur 

 Smith. 



Note— Geology 



Calverley Wood Quarries, Leeds — 3". A. A damson, F.G.S. 



Notes— Botany 



Thalictrum alpinum L. at Settle — A. Craig Christie, F.L.S. ; Dichroism in Viola 

 odorata — 7". D.A. Cockereli, M.C.S. ; Carduus acaulis in North Lincolnshire 

 — yas. Eardley Mason. 



Note— Mollusca 



Arion ater var. nov. cinerea at Nottingham — IV. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. 

 Notes and News 



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