6o THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



which had been taken. At North Cave, the Nightingale 

 appeared in 1896, and in 1897 was heard on the i6th April, 

 and the young were seen on the 2nd June in a large bush 

 near the ground. In 1898 it was again heard, on April the 

 29th. At South Cave a Nightingale was heard singing in 

 the Vicarage grounds. 



The bird is only an irregular visitant to the eastern part 

 of central Yorkshire, and I am only acquainted with the 

 following instances : — One was heard at Castle Howard on the 

 13th May 1875, and at Stillingfleet about the same date. 

 The Rev. F. O. Morris {Nat. 1851, p. 216), said he " plainly 

 heard it, ' ni fallor ' about a mile south of Malton, namely, 

 seventeen miles north-east of York. It was about eight 

 years ago, when I was walking home one moonlight night." 

 There is most satisfactory evidence of its occurrence at Scar- 

 borough, the most northern record, within recent years, 

 for Britain. Mr. William Robinson of West Bank, Scarborough 

 writes as follows in the Naturalist (1882, p. 185) : " It will 

 interest ornithologists in Yorkshire to hear that we really 

 have the Nightingale at Scarborough this year. On the 

 loth and nth of May, near Oliver's Mount, I listened to its 

 unmistakable ' jug, jug,' and piping and other liquid notes 

 for about half-an-hour between 11 p.m. and midnight. 

 I lived many years ago, in Surrey, and became very 

 familiar with these notes, so can speak with confidence 

 as to its not being a ' peggy ' this time." A later record 

 for this district is that on May the 8th 1896, in Rain- 

 cliffe Wood, it was heard on the 13th, near Throxenby 

 Mere ; and it was also seen and heard up to the 29th 

 of the month, on which day it was reported to have 

 been shot {Zool. 1896, p. 304). 



The late John Cordeaux mentioned {op. cit. 1897, p. 

 332, and Nat. 1897, p. 240), that he saw a Nightingale, in 

 the second week of June 1897, within two miles of Filey, in 

 a thicket near the roadside with a caterpillar in its beak, 

 and, within a few feet, a bird of the year. 



Passing now to the southern portion of central York- 



