JUNE 1900. 



(Published 1st June 1900.) 



No. 521 



(No. 299 of current series). 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 



EDITED BY <"^\Sr* 



DENISON ROEBUCK 



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259, Hyde Park Road, Leeds; 

 with the assistance in special, departments of 

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

 W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., GEO. T. PORR1TT, P.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. 



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



Anderson .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . 161 



Collecting Oiptera : A Few Useful Dodges— Rev. W.J. Wingate (Illustrated) .. 162-164 



Changes in the Halifax Flora during the last Century and a Quarter— C. E. 



Moss, B.Sc 165-172 



Bibliography: Geology and Palaeontology, 1896 — Thomas Sheppard ijj-igi 



Note : Amphibia: — Natterjack Toad at Seascale— John Farrah, F.L.S., 161. 



Note: Conchology :— Helix lapicida, etc.. near Grassington— [Mrs. H. G.] Brierley, 

 16 J. 



Note : Lepidoptera : — Gonepteryx rhamni in Nottinghamshire — Prof. J. W. Carr, 

 M.A., F.L.S., 164. 



Notes: Ornithology :— Curious Site for a Blackbird's Nest— Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., 164; Nightingale at Lincoln—/. Eardley Mason, rj2; The Cuckoo: its 

 Notes—//. T. Archer, igz. 



Note: Flowering Plants: — Cerastium quarternellum (Mcenchia erccta) at Doncaster— 

 H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., 192. 



Notes and News, 792. 



Illustration : — Entomological Apparatus, i6j. 



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