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walked about in the adjacent meadows most of the nights of 

 the 15th and i6th hstening to it. ... I was somewhat 

 surprised at its tameness ; on the third evening many boys 

 and young men from villages round about assembled, and 

 created some uproar, without, however, disturbing it from its 

 perch, and the game-watchers got within a few yards of it. 

 Early in the morning of the 17th, four days after its appearance, 

 it was captured with limed twigs by two Leeds bird fanciers : 

 a few meal-worms were thrown down among the twigs, and 

 in less than five minutes after the bait was laid, the bird was 

 secured." 



At Shipley, near Bradford, in 1850, one was reported 

 (Morris's Nat. 1851, p. 165), singing last season in a wood 

 about one mile from Shipley. It is said to have occurred at 

 Apperley Bridge. 



In the Huddersfield district, Allis (1844) quoted Cinderfield 

 Dyke Wood in Bradley as a locahty for it. We are told in 

 Hobkirk's " Hist, and Nat. Hist, of Huddersfield," 1859, that 

 two of these birds were noticed at the Grove, Dalton, in 1846. 

 One commenced to sing in Mollicar Wood, Huddersfield, on 

 5th May 1875, and continued until June 5th (Varley, Nat. 

 1875, p. 52 ; Palmer, Zool. 1875, p. 4499). The late James 

 Varley only knew of three occurrences in this district, one in 

 Lockwood, and those at Grove and Mollicar Woods above 

 mentioned. 



Mr. S. L. Mosley {Nat. 1889, p. 225), mentions that his 

 daughter and he had heard a nightingale singing near Anston 

 Stones, adding that they " had heard one on a previous visit, 

 and were told that it is a regular visitor." 



It appears regularly within a few miles of Ackworth ; 

 and has frequently been heard to sing in the vicinity of the 

 town ; it has bred on the Stapleton estate since 1870 ; since 

 1890 it has regularly bred at Brock-o'-dale ; as many as 

 six pairs were there in 1892. It has also been heard at Upton 

 Beacon. A pair bred at Hogg Wood in 1891, and the bird 

 has nested there every year since. In 1895 a pair nested in 

 Bingley Spring Wood. It also bred at Ackworth Moor top 



