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in the neighbourhood where he had noted the bird from 

 time to time. 



In the neighbourhood of Wakefield, Neville Wood 

 mentioned it {Nat. 1838, p. 437), on the authority of Charles 

 Waterton, as an annual visitor to Walton Hall, a statement 

 that has been repeated by various writers to the present 

 date. William Talbot, in his " Birds of Wakefield," tells 

 us he first made its acquaintance in 1841 at Burnt Wood, 

 about ten miles from Wakefield ; and he noted it in 1870 

 at Coxley Valley ; in 1871 at New Park Spring, Great 

 Houghton, where they were nesting ; in may 1873 a pair 

 made its appearance at Haw Park, but unfortunately its 

 career was cut short ; in 1874 two others visited this neighbour- 

 hood, and in May 1875 he heard three singing within eight 

 miles of Wakefield. About Lofthouse, George Roberts 

 stated that one was heard about the year 1836, and again in 

 1869, none occurring to his knowledge between these dates. 

 In 1884 one appeared at Stanley. 



Regarding the Leeds district, the occurrence of a specimen 

 is recorded (Morris's Nat., 1851, i. 46), at Killingbeck, near 

 Leeds, early in May 1849, which was, at that time, in the 

 possession of Thomas Russell of York Road, Leeds. In 1879 

 a Nightingale was heard singing in Mosley Wood, Horsforth, 

 some ten or twelve years before ; it was shot by the keeper 

 a short time after. Mr. W. C. Horsfall of Horsforth stated 

 in 1866 that " The Nightingale visits us, but only at intervals ; 

 I know of only four instances of its having done so in fifteen 

 years." In the Zoologist (1879, P- 4i3)' Mr. Joseph Lucas 

 wrote as follows : "I venture to record two localities in which 

 I have seen these birds — Esholt Woods, in Airedale, in the 

 summer of 1868, and on May the 8th in Jonas Wood, near 

 Farnley Hall, Wharfedale." In the same periodical (1869, 

 pp. 1800-1), Geo. Roberts observed that " on the 13th of May 

 one commenced singing in a small wood called Bushy Cliff, 

 situate about five miles south-east of Leeds .... and 

 began to sing each evening about half-past ten, and continued 

 in song till four in the morning. I, along with several others, 



