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about 10-30 p.m. until midnight. Others were calling in the 

 air the following night, and again just before daybreak the 

 following morning at Bolton Abbey. 



When Mr. Fortune arrived at Harrogate just after midnight 

 numbers were overhead, and he listened to their calls for about 

 fifteen minutes. Before retiring at i p.m. they were still calling, 

 and at 6-30 a.m. when he first went out he could still hear a 

 few, but could not see them. Mr. W. Wilson had heard them 

 at Skipton on the same evening, and also on the evening before. 

 What enormous numbers of these birds must have been on the 

 move over this district during the darkness of that night ! 



After the night of the 5th of November very few have been 

 heard, so far as I know. During the whole of this immigration 

 the prevailing winds have been westerly, although very light, 

 and the greatest numbers of Redwings appear to have passed 

 on clear dark nights. 



There is one rather singular feature of the nocturnal move- 

 ments of the Redwing which I have noticed in this neighbour- 

 hood. Whilst most species of birds which migrate at night 

 appear to adopt a level line of altitude, so that they are fre- 

 quently heard by persons who live on hills or in elevated neigh- 

 bourhoods, and very rarely by those who reside in the valleys, 

 the Redwings appear to fly at a certain elevation above the 

 ground, and are heard equally well in the valleys. Thus, for 

 instance, those passing over the lower parts of Shipley (about 

 200 feet above sea level) do not appear by their calls to be 

 higher above the listener than those which are heard from the 

 surrounding hills at several hundreds of feet greater altitude. 



Since the above was written it is evident that the vast 

 majority of these Redwings simply passed through the district. 

 Since the middle of November we have not had more than our 

 usual complement of Redwings, and not quite so many as a 

 year ago. 



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We have received No. 4 of the Bradford Botanical Garden handbook. 

 It is ' A History and a Guide to the Garden,' and is sold at one penny. 

 Reference is made to a Botanical Garden at Bierley Hall, near Bradford, 

 over two centuries ago. There is also an excellent plan of the present 

 gardens. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Walton Brown, of Newcastle, a 

 well-known figure in mining circles. He was fifty-two years of age, and was 

 secretary of the North of England Mining Institute, and other similiar 

 Associations. He accomplished good work in connection with editing 

 various mining publications, notably the large and valuable volumes con- 

 taining the details of the borings in Northumberland and Durham. 



Natsnlltt, 



