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THERE has been a considerable extension of our knowledge of the fauna of the English Lakeland by the activities of the Carlisle Natural History Society. A list of 292 species and sub-species has been drawn up in a manuscript book on “The Birds of Lakeland” to be published after the War, a considerable number of nesting species being added to the Rev. MacPherson's old “Fauna of Lakeland”. At a recent meeting of the Society in Carlisle Museum, F. H. Day recorded six new species of Coleoptera added to the Cumberland list in 1942, bringing the total list to 1,849. The new additions are Triplax aenea, Schall.; Gabrius velox, Shp. ; Aphodius constans, Duft. ; Liodes glabra, King. ; Hylastes opacus, Er. ; and Scolytes intricatus, Ratz., from an oak log. It was also reported that in 1942 there had been an increase in the range of wall brown and peacock butterflies, also the cinnabar moth in coastal regions, while the rare greasy fritillary butterfly still maintained certain local haunts. A cream-coloured curlew nested at Hosketh Hill and the quail in a clover field at Durdar. The blackcock is still numerous in many haunts. There is a regular pied wagtail roost on the glass roof of Carlisle railway station and another roost in willows by the Caldew. The willow-tit has been recorded in a number of Lakeland localities and a grey shrike was reported from near Brampton at the end of November. Whooper swans remained on a local water until the second week of May.
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English Lakeland Fauna. Nature 151, 51 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151051b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151051b0