328 Lees: Wetherby Re-visited by Yorkshire Naturalists . 



their absence, the President (Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S.) 

 and two Secretaries (Mr. Fortune and Mr. Kenneth McLean) 

 being the only representatives. 



Owing- to the excessive heat very little work was done, the 

 only item of importance being; the discovery by Mr. McLean of 

 a breeding-place of the Rock-Dove. In all 42 species of birds 

 were observed, 7 mammals, and 5 fishes, the following being" 

 the list : — 





Mammals. 





Rabbit. 



House Mouse. Water Vole. Fox. 



Hare. 



Shrew. Mole. 







Birds. 





Jackdaw. 



Skylark. 



Blue Tit. 



Wood Pig-eon. 



Meadow Pipit. 



Whitethroat. 



Swift. 



Tree Pipit. 



Redstart. 



Swallow. 



Missel Thrush. 



Sedge Warbler. 



House Martin. 



Willow Warbler. 



Linnet. 



Sand Martin. 



Blackbird. 



Wren. 



Sparrow. 



Song Thrush. 



Pied Wagtail. 



Rook. 



Sandpiper. 



Grey Wagtail. 



Starling-. 



Partridge. 



Kestrel. 



G: eenfinch. 



Pheasant. 



Carrion Crow. 



Yellow Bunting. 



Dipper. 



Lapwing'. 



Hedge Accentor. 



Chaffinch. 



Waterhen. 



Whinchat. 



Robin. 



Stock-Dove. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Great Tit. . 



Rock-Dove. 





Fishes. 





Minnow. 



Trout. Eel. Dace. 



Chub. 



In the absence of all the officers of the Conchological Section, 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., reported. He stated that 

 the extreme heat and especially the dryness militated so much 

 against the collection of land mollusca that the only species 

 observed were Helix aspersa represented by broken shells in 

 Collingham Bank Wood, and H. ca?itiana and H. virgata, found 

 near Wetherby by Mr. M. Lawson Thompson, the two latter 

 being species which do not hide themselves in dry weather, but 

 remain on the vegetation exposed to the fiercest solar heat. Of 

 course no slugs were observed, and of water mollusca all that 

 were collected were Physa fontinalis and Spheerium corneum, 

 both found commonly amongst Chara fragilis in the W narfe at 

 Wetherby by Mr. C. A. Rider, of Bingley. 



The entomologists were few in number, and among the 

 Lepidoptera nothing of note was netted. The withered flower- 

 heads of the Lady's-finger Vetch {Anthyllis vulneraria) were 

 collected by some 'of the party, off the railway banks, where the 



Naturalist, 



