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Veale, H. de P. B., M.D., J.P., Carlton House, Ilkley. 
Versey, H. C., M.Sc., The University Leeds., 
Walker, Jeoffrey, ‘ Parkmount,’ Baildon, Shipley. 
Watson, H., F.G.S., F.C.S., Brastone House, Beckersmet, Cumberland 
Williams, Miss Minnie P., Derwent Hotel, Yorkersgate, Malton. 
Woffenden, Miss L. M.. M.Sc., Botanical Dept., University, Leeds. 
Zimmerman, W. G. F., 7 Portland Street, York. 
Affiliated Societies. — The Affiliated Societies have been increased 
"by 1, viz., the Berry Brow Naturalists’ Society, Huddersfield, with a 
membership of 30 ; the total numerical strength of the Union is now 
3085. 
Obituary. — We much regret to have to record the deaths of the 
following Members : — Lady Carlisle, J. W. Barry, H. H. Corbett, J. W. 
Carter, J. Gardner, Sir Wm. Garforth, W. Herdman, F. Arnold Lees, 
Thomas Ward. 
The Divisional Secretaries have continued to facilitate the work 
•of the General Secretaries, and the Executive have to acknowledge their 
indebtedness to them for their assistance in organising the excursions. 
General Committee. — The following have been elected members 
of the General Permanent Committee of the Union : — C. F. Procter, 
W. R. Grist, B.Sc., and W. S. Bisat. 
VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY SECTION. 
West Riding (IT. B. Booth) : — The chief ornithological event this 
season was that an immature White -tailed Eagle had taken up its 
qaurters last winter in the wild stretches of moorland in the extreme 
south-west of this Riding. It remained in the district for two or three 
months ; when it was unfortunately shot by a gamekeeper, just over the 
Derbyshire border, on February 8th, 1921. 
Other records were : — An Osprey at Southwaite, in Nidderdale ; a 
pair of Hen Harriers ; an adult male Crossbill in May ; the nesting of 
the Short-eared Owl (all in Wharfedale) . A Waxwing at Hebden Bridge ; 
a Red -throated Diver and a Knot at Selby ; a Spotted Crake near 
Keighley ; the nesting of the Water Rail, and a nest of the Common Linnet 
containing two eggs of the Cuckoo, near Wilsden. All the above items 
have been described in The Naturalist. 
The small colony of Lesser Black -backed Gulls again frequented the 
‘ moss ’ at the side of Malham Tarn and nested. The gamekeeper 
thought there would be a pair or two more than in 1920 . : When I was there 
the young had hatched ; but I calculated that there would be about six 
or seven pairs nesting. The gamekeepers on the adjoining moors are now 
giving them warmer receptions, as was only to be expected. An ad- 
ditional nesting station of the Black -headed Gull has been added to. our 
list, viz., on Greensett Moss, Whernside (The Naturalist, 1921, p. 279), 
and this season about ten or a dozen pairs attempted to found a colony 
on the Lahshaw Dams on Rombald’s Moor, near Burley -in -Wharfedale. 
Owing to the dry season the water receded, and most of the eggs were taken 
as they were laid. By June 12th they had dwindled to three pairs, and 
I believe that only a single pair succeeded in bringing off its young. A 
pair of Buzzards frequented the neighbourhood of Crummock Dale, near 
Austwick, during the first three months of this year, and were last seen 
cm April 2nd (Chris. A. Cheetham*). On May 1st, Mr. Edmondson 
and the writer made an exhaustive search in order to find if they were 
nesting there, but we failed to see anything of them at all. It is reported 
* The names in parenthesis are the authorities. 
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