MAY 1900. 



(Published 1st May 1900.) 



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No. 520. 



(No. 298 of current series). 



I 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY 



WM. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S 



259, Hyde Park Road, Leeds; 

 with the assistance in special department's of 

 J. GILBERT BAKER, F.R.S., F.L.S. , 

 W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 ALFRED HARKER, M.A., F.G.S., JOHN W. TAYLOR, F.L.S., 



CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., W. B. TURNER, F.R.M.S. 



Contents ;— pages. 



North Lancashire Varieties of Polypodium vulgare: the Story of a Failure— 



S, Lister Petty ' . . .'. . . . . .. .... . . . . . . . . 129 



The Mortimer Museum at Driffield— Eds. Nat rjo 



Birds in a Ripon City Garden — Major Horace C. St. Paul, J. P. 131-132 



Hancock Prize Competition. A Ramble in North-West Durham — F. W. Ritson 133-/39 



Lincolnshire Naturalists at Frieston— Rev. E. A. Woodruff e-Peacock, L.Th., 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 141.144 



Weather and K\vte-Rev. E. A. Woodrtcffe- Peacock, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S 14.^ -'47 



Diptera of the Warrington District (First List)— E. E. Lozve '49- '33 



Bird-Notes from Lea, near Gainsborough: January to June 1899 — Miss M. L. 



Anderson .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i$j - 160 



Note: Pishes : — Large Pike at Burton Constable, Yorks, S.E.— /. A'. Lowther, 129. 



Notes: Coleoptera : — 0.\ypoda mgrina near Saltburn: an Addition to the Yorkshire 

 Coleoptera — M. Lawsen Thompson, 129; Beetles at Cadney, near Brigg — 

 Rev. E. A. J Food ruffe-Pea cock, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 129. 



: Ornithology :— Little Anks near the Spurn— P. if. Loten, 140: Colour-Variety 

 of Wheatear near Harrogate — Kenneth MacLean, 136; Pied Rook near 

 Harrogate — Kenneth MacLean, 136; Hooded Crow Nesting near Horneastle 

 Rev. J. Conway Walter, M..L, 136; Cranes in Lincolnshire about 1815— -Jos. 

 Eardley Mason, 136 ; Feeding Habits of the Greenfinch — Mrs. A. E. /arris, 136 ; 

 The Cuckoo — Mrs. A. E. Jarvis, 136. 



Hymenoptera :— Sirex gigas at Ashby, Line. N. — R. T. Cassal, F.E.S., '40. 

 Lepidoptera :— Eupithecia pygmaeata at Ashby, Line N. — R. T. Cassal, F.E.S., 



Notes 



Note: 

 Note: 



Notes: Mammalia: Badgers at Tathwell, near Louth, etc.— Rev. J. Conn-ay Walter, 

 M.A., 140; Whiskered Bat near Barnsley —Joseph Armitage, ifj. 



Note: Flowering Plants :— Bog-Pimpernel and Greater Spearwort at Wood hall Spa 

 — Mrs. A. E. Jarvis, 133. 



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