MARCH 1901. 



(Ptiblisheel 1st March 1901.) 



No. 530. 



f/Vo. 308 of current series.) 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OF EN 



EDITED BY 



WM. DEN ISDN ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 



259, Hydk Park Road, Leeds; 

 wli h the assistance in special departmen ts of 

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

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

 ALFRED MARKER, 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 : — 



Yorkshire Bryological Committee: Report for 1900— /../. Marshall 



List of Mosses New to North or to South Lincolnshire— Miss S. C. Stow .. 



The Facies of our Forest Flora— P. Q. Keegan, LL.D. 



Botanical Notes from Cumberland for the Year 1900— Wm. Hodgson, A. L.S. 



Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1900— William Heweit 



Notes on Birds :— Buzzard at Askrigg— Rev. T. Ainsworth Erode, 74; Nuthatch in 

 Lower Swaledale — The Hon. Mrs. Beatrice Carpenter, 74; Winter Occurrence of 

 House Martin at Redcar — T. H. Nelson, M.B.O. U., 74; Tufted Duck near North- 

 wich, Cheshire— Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock, L.Th., F.L.S., F.G.S., 74; Birds 

 Breeding: in Bottesford Parish in 1887 — Max Peacock, 74 ; Wild Duck at Skipwith 

 — Rev. T. Ainszvorth Erode, 74; Nesting- of Thrushes and Blackbirds in December 

 — K. McLean, 74 ■ Swifts in Yaddlethorpe Gravel-pits, and other Bird-notes — Max 

 Peacock, 75\ Winter Nidification of Robin — F. H. Taylor, 75; Meaning of the 

 Word Lapwing—/. A. Martindale, 75 ; Shag- in Cheshire — C. R. T. Congreve, 75; 

 White Sparrows and Greenfinch in Holderness— T. Petch, B.Sc, E.A., 75; 

 Holderness Bird Notes, Christmas, 1900— 7\ Petch, B.Sc, B.A., 76, 



Note on Mollusca and Fishes : — Frost and Limnaea*peregra — T. Petch, B.Sc, E.A. , 76. 



Note on Mosses: — Some Mosses at Sapperton, Lincolnshire — Rev. E. A. Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, L. Th., F.L.S., F.G.S.,68. 



Notes on Flowering Plants :— Mildness of Season in Fu rness — Rev. A. H. H it >n f>h ris , 



M.A.,73; Some Remarkable Oak Trees in the North — Henry Payne, M.D., 73 ; 

 Cotyledon umbilicus in Furness — Harper Gaythorpe, So; Fig Tree Bearing in the 

 Open, Max Peacock, So ; Mistletoe at Sheffield of Eld — F. Arnold Lees, M.R.C.S., 

 80; Autumn in Lakeland (1900)— P. O. Keegan, LL.D., So. 

 Notes and News. 76. 



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 67-68 

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