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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



Lesser Redpole's Nest in a Hawfinch Nest. — When 

 searching for Hawfinch nests this season in Skipton Woods, 

 I was surprised to find that a pair of Lesser Redpoles had built 

 their nest on a last season's Hawfinch Nest in a Poplar tree, 

 about i8 feet from the ground, and had a full clutch of eggs. 

 I think this is a very unusual occurrence for the Redpole. — 

 Walter Wilson, Skipton-in-Craven, 13th July, 1908. 



Green Sandpiper at Bolton Abbey. — At noon of August 

 14th I had the pleasure of seeing^ a Green Sandpiper on the 

 margin of the fish ponds here. It was busy feeding, and stayed 

 for two hours after I first saw it. With a pair of binoculars, 

 I managed to conceal myself within fifteen yards unnoticed, 

 and had it under observation some time. It was an adult 

 in fine plumage. It eventually left in a northerly direction, 

 rising to a considerable height. — Thos. Roose, Bolton Abbey. 



MAMMALS. 



White Ued;!^ehog at Skelling^thorpe, Lines. — A fine albino 

 hedgehog was killed on the 12th July in the above parish. It is 

 a very large female, and, with the exception of a few bands of a 

 darker shade across the spines, is absolutely greyish white, 

 irides pink. — ^J. F. Musham, South Park, Lincoln. 



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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Micro = Lepidoptera in East Yorks. — On the excursion of 

 the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, to Kelsey Pits 

 near Ryehill on the nth August, 1906, Mr. J. Porter, of Hull, 

 and I took larvoe of Cki'lo phragjnitelhis freely at the roots of 

 the Common Reed. We did not at the time know the larvae, 

 but I have bred imagines during the summer of 1907 from the 

 larvae taken there. At the same place Mr. J. Porter took, in 

 the spring of 1907, larvae of Laverna phragynitella in the old 

 flower heads of the bulrush. At the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union Meeting at South Cave on the 22nd June, 1907, the 

 latter took Nepticula salicis, and I found cases of Coleophora 

 laricella common on young larch trees in the Park, taking at 

 the same time Lithocolletis cramerelLa. — G. W. Mason, Barton- 

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