V.R.I 



FEBRUARY 1001 



(Published 1st February 1901.) 



No. 529. 



THC 



(No. 307 of current series.) 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLA 



WM 



EDITED BY 



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

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



CHAS. P. HOBK1RK, F.L.S., W. B. TURNER, F.R.M.S. 



Contents : — 



Bibliography: Geology and Palaeontology, 1897— Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S. 



Some Rarer Plants of Bowland— Joseph F. Pickard 



Bird Names and Lore— Max E. Peacock 



Reptiles and Amphibians of the Skelmanthorpe District— Fred Lawton 

 Lincolnshire Naturalists at Horncastle— Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, L.Th., 



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



Lincolnshire Naturalists at Little Bytham— Henry Preston, F.G.S. (Illustrated).. 

 Notes on Mammalia: — Stoat's Nest in a Mole Max Peacock, 44; Swimming- by 



Moles, Hedgehog's, etc. — Max Peacock, 4.4. 

 Notes on Birds : — Iceland Falcon at Saxilby, near Lincoln— Rev. J. Conway Walter, M.A., 



42; Grey Phalarope and Purple Sandpiper at Kirton, near Boston — Rev. J. Conway 



Walter, M.A., 42; Wild Swans, etc., near Gainsborough — Miss Margaret L. 



Anderson, 42; Long-eared Owls as Anglers — Max Peacock, 42; North-west 



Lindsey Bird-Notes— Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 42; 



The Nuthatch as a Durham Bird—/. W. Fawcett, 43; The Waxwing as a Durham 



Bird—/. W. Fawcett, 43. 

 Notes on Hymenoptera:— Sirexgigas at Northwich, Cheshire— B. R. Lucas, 63; Nest 



of Vespa germanica near Grantham — Miss S. C. Stow, 63 ; Hymenoptera Captured 



during 1900 in Lincolnshire — Rev. Alfred Thomley, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. , 63; 



Hymenoptera taken at Skegness in 1900 — Rev. Alfred Thomley, M.A., F.L.S., 



F.E.S., 63. 



Note on Coleoptera : — Coleopterous Captures in Lincolnshire in 1900 — Rev. A. Thomley, 



M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., 64. 

 Note on Orthoptera:— Orthoptera taken at Bottesford in 1900— Rev. Alfred Thomley, 



M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., 63. 



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