DIPPER. 10 1 



The claim of this species to our attention as a York- 

 shire bird is in virtue of an occurrence at Scarborough, 

 during the winter of 1862-3. This specimen now forms part 

 of the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney of Keswick Hall, Norwich, 

 where Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke had the pleasure of seeing it. 



It formerly had a place in the late W. W. Boulton's collec- 

 tion at Beverley ; and that gentleman communicated the 

 following account of it to the Zoologist (1863, p. 8766) : " On 

 the 22nd of August, at Mr. Roberts', bird stuffer, Scarborough, 

 I saw a fine female specimen of the Alpine Accentor which had 

 been shot near Scarborough. Last winter (1862-3) ^ poor 

 man offered for sale to Mr. Roberts a string of larks and small 

 birds he had shot. Mr. R. bought them and found this bird 

 amongst the number. I purchased it and it is now in my 

 collection." 



I am informed by Mr. George Steels of Pocklington (1902), 

 that he stuffed an Alpine Accentor " many years ago," for 

 a gamekeeper named Wetherill, who had shot it at Waplington, 

 but my informant could not ascertain where the specimen 

 is now. 



DIPPER. 



Cinclus aquaticus {Bechst.). 



Resident ; local ; common in the south-west and north-west, and 

 also in Cleveland ; rare in the East Riding. 



Historically, so far as we know, the oldest Yorkshire 

 Water Ouzel is the one described by John Ray, which was 

 shot on the River Rivelin, near Sheffield (Will. '^Orn." 1678, 

 p. 149). 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Cinclus aquaticus. — Common Dipper — Rarely met with in the East 

 Riding, frequently seen on the mountain streams of the North and 

 West Ridings. 



The Dipper is a common resident on the mountain becks 

 and rivers which abound in or traverse the Fell district of 



