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was not neglected : on i8th May Mr. P. Loten and his father 

 noticed four birds coming in from the direction of the sea, 

 five more being observed by the hght-keeper on the same 

 date ; twenty others were noted at Welwick, and various 

 small flights occurred in different parts of the promontory 

 from then until the 31st May, when the late J. Cordeaux 

 estimated the numbers seen at seventy ; seven others were 

 shot and one " telegraphed." On ist June four more were 

 killed, others being recorded from time to time until the 

 end of the month. 



In the Beverley district fourteen were brought in by a 

 farmer and eight by another man ; at least fifty pairs were 

 in the neighbourhood in July, and a large flock was noted 

 between that place and Driffield in June. 



Near Market Weighton two were obtained from a party 

 of thirty in June ; the Rev. E. Maule Cole reported two at 

 Wetwang on 6th September, and a pair in the Hull Museum 

 was killed on 29th May, near Etton. On the open land 

 between Kilham and Burton Agnes a large number was 

 observed by Mr. W. H. St. Ouintin for some weeks ; he gave 

 strict orders for their protection, but early in August they 

 were reduced from forty-two to twenty-two birds, being then 

 in heavy moult. Several other smaller parties were noticed 

 flying about the district, but nothing had been seen of them 

 at Lowthorpe since August, and it was presumed they had 

 departed. 



In West Yorkshire Mr. W. Eagle Clarke received the earliest 

 notice of the Sand Grouse on 17th May, when one was brought 

 to him which had been captured the previous day in Dewsbury 

 Road, near Leeds ; two days later a party of twenty was 

 seen near Ardsley Reservoir ; on the 24th a specimen was 

 " telegraphed " at Newton -le-Clay, and eight others noted at 

 the same place. Mr. Riley Fortune saw four at Beaver Dam 

 on the 26th ; near Goldsborough a flock of fifteen was noted 

 on the 30th ; two were procured, from a party of five, at 

 Darley in Upper Nidderdale, by Mr. Smorfitt, and others 

 were reported in several localities in the Western Ainsty. 

 The Rev. E. P. Knubley recorded a flight of twenty at 



