4o8 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



The late W. Talbot, in his " Birds of Wakefield " (p. 26), 

 mentioned one procured in 1850, by Mr. Firth, at Horbury 

 Mill Dam. 



The late Sir Wm. Milner stated {Zool. 1851, p. 3278), that, 

 on 2nd August 1851, an adult female in his collection (now 

 in the Leeds Museum), occurred at Wilberfoss, near York. 



The York Museum possesses an adult male from the 

 Rudston collection, killed in 1865, at Hornby Decoy, by 

 Anthony Savage, gamekeeper to the Duke of Leeds. 



The late Capt. Clark-Kennedy communicated {op. cit. 1868, 

 p. 1135), particulars concerning a fine specimen, obtained in 

 one of the early months of 1867 by the head keeper of Mr. 

 J. C. D. Charlesworth, at Reeth, near Richmond. It was 

 damaged in the head and too much mutilated for preserva- 

 tion [op. cit. 1884, p. 138 ; and Tinkler, Nat. 1892, p. 322). 



Admiral Oxley of Ripon possesses a specimen which was 

 taken at Masham in 1877. 



An individual, in Mr. Thomas Boynton's collection at 

 Bridlington, formerly had a place in the Bessingby collection, 

 as the owner informs me, and was captured at Thorpe fish- 

 ponds, near Bridlington, but no further particulars are 

 obtainable. 



[An example of the Flamingo {Phasnicopterus roseus, 

 Pallas), killed on the Swale in January 1896, was, in all prob- 

 ability, an individual escaped from Lord Lilford's aviaries 

 in Northamptonshire.] 



GREY LAG GOOSE. 



Anser cinereus (Meyer). 



Winter visitant, of uncommon occurrence. 



The earliest allusion to tlie \\'ild Goose in Yorkshire 

 is found in the Cottonian MS., circa 1604, and though the 

 writer of that day may i.ct have been able to discriminate 



