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shire, Pennant's remarks have been already quoted at the 

 commencement of this chapter. Miller, in his " History of 

 Doncaster " (1804), remarked that this " most delightful 

 songster visits us about the middle of May." Allis, and 

 others down to the present time, mentioned it as common 

 in Edlington and other woods, and in the neighbourhood 

 north of this town the editor of Nevile Wood's Naturalist 

 (1838, p. 437), said : " We have ourselves heard it near 



Campsall, and in a wood adjoining Owston Hall 



Wm. H. Rudston Read, Esq., of Frickley Hall, .... informs 

 us that several of these nocturnal choristers visit Hooton 

 Pagnall Common." 



One was recorded as singing in Regent Square, Doncaster 

 {Nat. 1899, p. 292). 



About Goole it has been repeatedly heard in the district ; 

 at Cowick in 1879, and at Rawcliffe in 1880 and 1881 ; it 

 appeared again at Rawcliffe in 1888 and 1889 ; also at Hook 

 in 1893 and 1894. 



In Holderness, in the southern portion near the Humber 

 estuary, it occurs annually, but in varying numbers. The 

 Rev. H. C. Casson {Field, 21st June 1879), writes as follows 

 on the extension of the range of this species in the neighbour- 

 hood of Patrington, and tells us that " Last Monday night, 

 June 9th, I sat on a gate listening to four Nightingales at once, 

 which sang against one another continuously during that time ; 

 and during a walk of a mile I heard three other Nightingales 

 singing, besides the four together. Two years ago a single 

 Nightingale was heard in the same lane, but none was noticed 

 last year." Mr. Casson, in reply to inquiries in 1881, kindly 

 communicated the following additional and interesting in- 

 formation : " On 24th May 1880, and again on the 27th of 

 the same month, I heard (on each occasion), two Nightingales 

 singing in pretty much the same spot each evening. The 

 evenings were both warm ones. On several other occasions 

 I listened for them, but never heard them except on the 

 nights mentioned. However, I have often noticed, when 

 I lived in Cambridgeshire, where Nightingales are very 



