Fungi — The Yorkshire Mycological Committee will be officially represented. 
Mr. Crossland will be glad to examine any specimens sent to him from the 
Spurn area. 
VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.— The Ver ebrate Section will be officially 
represented by Mr. E. W. Wade, M.B.O.U. 
Mammalia. — Fox, Hare, Rabbit, Stoat, Weasel, Brown Rat, Water Vole, 
Mole, Mouse, Common Shrew, and Hedgehog. 
Reptiles and Amphibia. — Lizard, Grass Snake, Triton and Smooth Newts. 
Birds.— Mr. E, W. Wade, M.B.O.U., writes : — At this lime of year, the Spurn 
promontory contains a very limited avifauna, but none the less interesting from its 
distinctive character, one that is all its own as far as Yorkshire is concerned. 
Among the Elder bushes and Sea-Buckthorn Scrub the blackbird is found breeding, 
and one of the most interesting sights of the place is the debris of shells oi Helix 
aspena, round some stone where this bird or the thrush has hammered them to 
pieces to get at the contents. A solitary Pied Wagtail or Swallow may be seen, 
Meadow Pipits and Brown Linnets are abundant everywhere, the latter beginning 
already to pack into flocks. The ubiquitous Sparrow will be found where there are 
houses. A stray common Bunting may be heard trilling monotonously on the 
telegraph wires. Skylarks are everywhere. Flocks of Starlings relieved from their 
parental duties and not occupied in feeding, are among the bents. A few pair of 
Shelduck occur, the bird showing very little increase in numbers of late years. 
Amongst others are an odd Partridge, whose mate is incubating her eggs some- 
where near; the Oyster Catcher, which have returned to breed again ; four Arctic 
or Common Terns, these birds having haunted the place for three seasons without 
breeding ; and most important of all, Little Tern and Ringed Plover, which the 
protection committee has had under its special care, and which show in satisfactory 
numbers again owing to that protection only, for without it, in a district so largely 
frequented as this is, they must quickly disappear. A few Gulls, mostly Herring 
Gull, flapping lazily along the coast, occasionally mobbed by Terns, complete the 
meagre list. Spurn must be visited in migration time for the bird-lover to see the 
species that have made it famous. 
MARINE ZOOLOGY. — Naturalists interested in this subject may profitably 
examine the pools on the shore near the beacon, and the Zostera pools on the clays, 
both being accessible at all tides. The skerries between Kilnsea and Easington, and 
the Den, should be visited if conditions permit. For walking on the '* clays " it is 
advisable to wear sand-shoes. Mr. T. Petch, B.A,, B.Sc, records the zoophytes 
Gonothyroea loveni, Obelia gelatinosa, Cavipanularia angulata, as common on 
Zostera. Tubtilaria indivisa is found on Kilnsea skerries, and Sagartia nivea on 
the Den, Probably the most interesting Crustacea are Macromysis Jlexuosus, in 
pools near Kilnsea beacon, and Neomysis vulgaris^ common everywhere. Full lists 
will be found in the Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, 
vol. HI., and the " Naturalist," January, 1904. 
CONCHOLOGY — The Conchological Section will be officially represented. 
Land and Freshwater Mollusca — Mr. T. Petch records twenty-one species 
of terrestrial mollusca for the Point. Of these Helix nemoralis is probably the | 
most abundant, in all varieties of banding. An investigation by Mr. Denison 
Roebuck and others, showed that the majority had interrupted bands, a fact which 
was attributed to the dryness of the situation, but recent observations have thrown 
some doubt on the constancy of this feature; (12345) is a common form. H. 
caperata and H. aspersa are common, H. virgaia abounds, and its variety nigrescens 
may be found on ragwort. Minor varieties of H. nemoralis and H. aspeisa 
have been taken. Old baskets, etc., should be carefully ej^amined, especially 
if lying on moss or short herbage near the entrance to the warren ; under such have 
been found Arion ??iini?nus, Helix pulchella, H. pygmcea, Hyalinia alliaria, Hf, 
crystallina^ Hy. fulva, Pupa cylindracea, P. mus<orum. Vertigo edeniula, and 
V. minutissima. 
