SEPTEMBER 1900. 



(Published 1st September 1900.) 



No. 524. 



(No. 302 of current series.) 



I lit. 



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 departments of 

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



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

 ALFRED HARKER, M.A., F.G.S., 

 CHAS. P. HOBKIRK, F.L.S., 



GEO. T, PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 JOHN W. TAYLOR, F.L.S., 

 W. B. TURNER, F.R.M.S. 



Contents: — pages. 



The Beck-A Study— Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S 237 -269 



Additions to the Moss-Flora of Yorkshire— William Ingham, B.A 271-272 



Lincolnshire Naturalists at Linwood Warren — Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, 



W\. | L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S. : 273-276 



Spring's Pageant in Westmorland and Lancashire—/ 7 . Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S. 277-284 



Review : The Birds of Cheshire-fK H. Dobie, M.B., M.B.O. U. 285-287 



Note : Mosses : — Eurhynchium myosuroides var. cavernarum at Kirkdale : a Correc- 

 tion — William Ingham, B.A., 269. 



Notes: Ornithology :— Birds and De-abdominated Insects— Miss Mary /,. Arm ill. 



270; Thrush-Stones and Spotted Flycatcher — Max Peacock, 270; Voice of 

 Cuckoo — Max Peacock, 287. 



Note: Flowering Plants :— Schcenus nigricans at Askern— H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., 

 272. 



Notes: Lepidoptera :— Colias hyale and C. edusa near Spilshy— /. C. Lane-Claypon, 

 287 ; Colias edusa near Lincoln— A. E. Hall, F.E.S., 287 ; Hummingbird Hawk- 

 moth at Ripon — Major Horace SI. Paul, J. P., 287 ; Hummingbird Hawkmoth 

 in Westmorland— Miss Mary L. Armitt, 287. 



Note: Coleoptera : — Coleoptera taken at Bottesford, LincoInshire--.l/tf.v Peacock. 288. 



Note: Geology: -The Marlstone at Lincoln— F. F. Walton, F.G.S., 2S8. 



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