FIELD NOTES. 389 
BIRDS. 
Manx Shearwater at Halifax. — The Manx Shearwater 
picked up at Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge (vide" The 
Naturalist, November, p. 331), is not the first record of the 
species for the parish of Halifax, but the third of my own know- 
ledge. In ‘ A List of the Vertebrate Fauna of Hebden Bridge 
and District, 1910,’ a record occurs of a bird taken in 1908, 
not very far from the place where the latest specimen occurred. 
— Walter Greaves, Hebden Bridge. 
FUNGI. 
Remarkable Growth of Coprinus comatus near 
Harrogate. — On October 15th, I noticed a field in the distance 
Photo by] Coprinus comatus. IR. Fortune. 
covered with white, at first I thought it was caused by the 
Scentless Mayweed, quantities of which were then flowering 
in the neighbourhood. Closer investigation, however, showed 
that the field, about two acres in extent, was literally strewn 
with fungi, Coprinus comatus. A space of 27 yards by 25 
yards was absolutely covered with batches, some of them very 
large, of the fungus. The remainder of the field was sprinkled 
over more or less thickly. I photographed several of the 
groups, but the area covered was too large to be included in 
a general photograph. Some years ago the field was excavated 
and used as a sand pit, subsequently the part excavated was 
filled in, and it was upon this area that the largest groups were 
to be seen. 
1914 Dec. 1. 
