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parts of the county : at Hovingham on the 26th October, 

 and at Danby on the 21st of the same month in 1879 ! ^^ 

 Ripon on 7th October 1881 ; at Richmond Park, Sheffield, 

 •on 3rd September 1900 ; and as late as 3rd October 1879, 

 and 4th October 1895, at Ackworth {ZooL 1901, p. 452). 

 Mr. J. Ranson {Nat. 1864, p. 8y), comments on the partiality 

 of this species for the fruit of the cherry and currant. 



Numerous instances in Yorkshire are known where the 

 nest has been met with in elevated situations ; of these the 

 following may be cited : — one at York at the end of a branch 

 ■of an Austrian pine nine feet from the ground, and another 

 in a clump of pinks (Zool. 1892, p. 150), and one at Masham 

 in a yew tree four feet above the ground. Spotless eggs are 

 •occasionally found. 



Of vernacular names Featherpoke is general ; Peggy is 

 3. West Riding appellation ; Jim Jam is used in the Nidd 

 Valley ; Ground ^^'ren, Grass Wren, Grass Warbler, in 

 •east Cleveland, are used for both the Willow Warbler and 

 this bird ; while Miller's Thumb is, in some parts, as at 

 Sedbergh, applied indiscriminately to the Chiff Chaff, Willow 

 Warbler, and Wood Warbler. In Cleveland the nest is called 

 Tom Tit's nest. Lesser Pettychaps and Least Willow 

 Wren are old book-names used by Tunstall. 



Several examples of the Chiff Chaff shot at Easington, 

 near Spurn, on 17th October 1896, have been referred by Mr. 

 Dresser to an eastern form known as P. brehmi {Nat. 1897, 

 p. 17). 



WILLOW WARBLER. 

 Phylloscopus trochilus (Z). 



Summer visitant ; abundant, and generally distributed. 



The earliest mention of the occurrence of this species 

 in Yorkshire is contained in a communication, dated i6th 

 August 1799, from Charles Fothergill to William Fothergill, 

 to the effect that he had seen and shot several Willow Wrens 



