Notes and Comments. 



Warbler at Middlesbrough,' and ' Early Appearance of the 

 Redwing-,' by the late R. Lofthouse ; ' The Little Bunting- at Tees 

 Mouth,' by C. E. Milburn ; ' Cleveland Lepidoptera,' by T. A. 

 Lofthouse ; * Some Notes on Local Lepidoptera,' by the late 

 R. G. Clayton ; ' Coleoptera Observed in Cleveland,' by M. L. 

 Thompson; 'Submerged Forest and Peat Beds at Redcar,' by 

 H. Simpson; and 'Rainfall in 1902.' The Editor (the Rev. J. 

 Hawell) contributes ' Bajocian Plant Beds of Yorkshire,''"" illus- 

 trated by a fig-ure of a specimen of Dictyoza7nites Hawelli, which 

 we are able to reproduce herewith. The price of the publication 

 is 2/-. We trust that the next balance sheet issued will show 

 a g-reater amount than the last under the head of ' Transactions 

 sold.' 



NEWCASTLE NATURALISTS. 



In consequence of the recent amalgamation of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club with the Natural History Society, a new 

 series of the ' Transactions of the Natural History Society of 

 Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne ' has been 

 started, and Vol. i. Part i, 1904, price 2s., makes its appear-- 

 ance. The first page is devoted to a summary of the publications 

 of the two societies, from 1829 onward, which will be useful 

 to bibliographers. Mr. A. Meek contributes a valuable paper 

 ' On the Fishes of the North East Coast,' which includes par- 

 ticulars of some additions to House's well-known Catalogue of 

 the fishes of Northumberland and Durham. This paper describes 

 the capture of the Sharp-tailed Lumpenus [Ltimpenus lampetri- 

 formis Walb. ), for the first time in England. It was taken at 

 Cullercoats, at extreme low-water mark, on 12th February 1903. 

 Mr. G. S. Brady gives ' Notes on Entomostraca found at the 

 Roots of Laminariae,' with two plates. This includes the 

 description of a new species, Argillcecia propinqna, taken in 

 depth of 59 fathoms, 29 miles east of Aln mouth. Mr. Meek 

 has a second note describing a Beluga, or White Whale, caught 

 at the mouth of the Tyne in June 1903, the skeleton of w4iich is 

 now in the Newcastle Museum. It is pointed out that the 

 species had not previously been recorded south of the Forth (in 

 1815), but that the fishermen have reported seeing another 

 example on various parts of the north-east coast during the 

 sunuiier. Possibly this is the specimen recorded at Scarborough 

 in August last by Sir R. L. Patterson ('Naturalist,' September 



See 'The Xatui-alist,' 1903, p. 227, and pp. 312-317. 



Naturalist, 



