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234 ramosum, branched bur-reed; (2) Potamogeton rufescens, red pondweed; (3) P. densus, close-leaved pondweed; (4) Anacharis alsinastrum, water-thyme; (5) Sium angustifolium, water-parsnip; (6) Hippuris vulgaris, marestail; (7) Equisetum arvense, barren stem of common horsetail; (8) Fontinalis antipyretica, great water-moss. These were most kindly identified for me by Mr. M.B. Slater, F.L.S., of Malton.

21st.—Stuffed a Whiskered Bat.

24th.—Lying up in cover at dusk with a friend, we had seven Badgers, four old and three young, playing about within forty yards of us. (See the 'Field,' Feb. 3rd, 1900, for full account of the Badger in Yorkshire.) Would have given much to have been able to photograph them, but the light was gone for this purpose.

August was a very hot month. Grouse have done well on nearly all the Yorkshire moors, and the young birds are fine and strong on the wing. An Osprey was shot on the 29th near Filey. Two young Dotterels at Easington, Holderness, on the 22nd.

September was also very hot. Partridges are plentiful. Over a small farm I and a friend shot eighteen brace; but here where we used to get fifteen or twenty Hares in a day fifteen years ago, now we never see one. I was over at Flamborough for a few days, and far out at sea saw many Skuas, mostly Arctic Skuas. An immature Sabine's Gull was shot here at the end of the month. A Great Snipe was obtained at Thorntondale, and another at Beverley, and near the latter place also a fine young Black-tailed Godwit, and a Greenshank. Mr. Stuart, the wellknown birdstuffer of that town, tells me that a Wood Sandpiper was shot at Aike Beck End, on the river Hull, at the beginning of the month. Several Black Terns were observed off Bridlington, and some were shot. The large spring migration of these birds that has been noticed near Hemsworth for the last few years was not observed this year.

When Pheasant-shooting on the 2nd put up a Landrail. A fine Honey Buzzard was obtained near Beverley. I regret deeply