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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 
The New Philologist for March contains a paper on ‘ Variability in 
Stellaria Graminea,’ by Mr. A. S. Horne, B.Sc. 
The Scottish Naturalist for April contains a paper by Mr. S. E. Brock 
on ‘ The Display of the Mallard in relation to Pairing.’ 
An abundance of Halipus striatus Sharp, in Yorkshire* on the York- 
shire side of the Tees, is recorded in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 
for May. 
In British Birds for April are two remarkably fine coloured plates 
of heads of the lesser and great Black- Backed Gulls, drawn by Mr. E. 
Alexander. 
In The Irish Naturalist for May, Dr. H. Stokes has an interesting 
account of excavations in Ireland for the purpose of securing remains of 
the Irish Elk. 
In British Birds for May is a record of the Spoonbill in Cheshire in 
November last, and of a number of Black Terns in the same county 
during April. 
In connection with the Filey meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union the Hull Geological Society has issued an admirable coloured 
sketch of fhe cliffs of the Filey district. 
According to a note in The Zoologist for April, it is evident that in some 
of the counties, including Northumberland, Cumberland, and Lincolnshire, 
the numbers of Black Redstarts have been more numerous this year than 
usual. 
In The Geological Magazine for May, Dr. R. J. Sherlock contributes 
the first part of a paper on ‘ The Foraminifera of the Speeton Clay, York- 
shire,’ and Dr. C. A. Matley writes on ‘ The Source of the Pebbles in the 
Bun ter.’ 
Knowledge for May contains well illustrated articles ‘ On Hairs and 
Hair Pigments,’ by H. Onslow ; ‘ The Fairy Shrimp,’ by W. Mark Webb ; 
‘Spore Dispersal in the Larger Fungi,’ by Somerville Hastings , and ‘ A 
microscopical Colloidal Examination of Jams,' by Ernest Marriage. 
In The Lancashire Naturalist for April, Mr. H. J. Wheldon has an 
interesting note on the Fungi of the Lancashire Coast ; Dr. A. R. Jackson 
gives notes on collecting and preserving spiders, and Mr. R. Standen has 
similar information with regard to False Scorpions and Wood Lice. 
Dr. Sheridan Delepine has a note in the Museums Journal for April, 
' On the Arsenious Acid- Glycerin-Gelatin (Arasenious Jelly) Method of 
Preserving and mounting Pathological Specimens with their natural 
colours, and on the use of new forms of Receptacles for Keeping Museum 
Speciipens.” 
From the Homiman Museum, Forest Hill, we have received an ad- 
mirable little handbook to the collections illustrating a Survey of the 
Animal Kingdom, which contains 78 pages, and is sold at one penny. 
It was written by Mr. F. W. Milligan. The Summary of progress of the 
same Museum, since its opening in 1901, has also appeared, and has one 
or two very fine illustrations. 
We take the following from the May number of the Entomologist's 
Monthly Magazine. “ ‘ A humble-bee attacked by a Dipteron.” The oc- 
currence recorded under the above heading by Mr. Richardson in the 
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for last month, page 93, is easily 
explained. What was taken for “ a medium-sized black humble-bee,” was 
reallv the female of Podalirius pilipes Fab., one of the Apidae ; and the 
supposed Dipteron hovering over it and vibrating its wings in a state of 
great excitement, was clearly the male of the same species.’ 
Naturalist, 
