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pair was reported near Masham in June 1880 (Carter MS.)- 

 In the Central Plain, near the City of York, four nests of 

 this bird were found in 1880 {Zool. 1880, p. 405) ; 

 further to the westward it is reported to have bred near 

 Harrogate ; and, since 1898, at Woodhall Bridge, on the 

 Wharfe, where there were three pairs in 1901 ; while at 

 Scarborough it reaches the most northerly point at which 

 the nest has been known with absolute certainty ; there 

 the eggs were found in June 1900, and in 1905 Mr. R. Fortune 

 discovered a nest at Wykeham. It is not improbable, how- 

 ever, that the Turtle-Dove may have nested still further 

 north, for, in the first week of June 1902, two birds were seen 

 for several days in a plantation near Marton-in-Cleveland, 

 although a diligent search failed to reveal the nest. 



As a migrant the species has been noticed both in spring 

 and autumn at the coast stations, particularly at Spurn 

 and Flamborough ; at the latter place a flock of fifteen was 

 seen in April 1878, while the earliest date on which the bird 

 has been observed is 17th April 1896, when several arrived 

 in an exhausted state at the Headland. In June 1883, I 

 saw a pair on the Tees Breakwater, and in the autumn of 

 1886 a small flock of seven alighted on Coatham sandhills, 

 where one was aftenvards killed. In various other localities, 

 within the breeding area, it appears almost annually, but 

 is of very exceptional occurrence in western Yorkshire ; 

 one was reported at Wilsden in 1876, another at Halifax in 

 1885, and it has been noticed at Skipton-in-Craven in July 

 and August 1880. 



The latest date on which it has been chronicled is given 

 by the late W. W. Boulton {op. cit. 1866, p. 96), who noted 

 one at Beverley on i8th November 1865. 



