114 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



also the birds had utilised an old nest placed at the foot 

 of a tree. Yet another strange site was a crevice in the 

 jaw-bone of a whale used as a gate-post on the road leading 

 from Bempton village to the cliffs, a road traversed by 

 ornithologists from all over the country ; here a brood was 

 hatched in 1901, ere the nest was discovered, and in 1902 

 I found the owner of the gateway had sawn down the bone 

 arch [Nat. 1901, p. 256). 



An instance of three old birds feeding a brood of young 

 at Boroughbridge is mentioned by Mr. Holtby [torn. cit. p. 282) 



The only recorded example of a departure from the 

 ordinary plumage was mentioned by the late Rev. J. Chaloner 

 of Newton Kyme, who saw one in 1892 " coloured as yellow 

 as a canary " {op. cit. 1892, p. 215). 



Of local names Blue Cap, Tom Tit, Billy Biter, Billy Blue 

 Cap, and Jacky Blue Cap are general ; Little Billy Bluecap 

 and Blue Bonnet are used in the West Riding ; Bluey at 

 Scarborough ; Twitty Blue in Wharf edale ; Jenny Wren in 

 Craven ; and Titinaup in the Aire Valley (fifty years ago). 



CRESTED TITMOUSE. 

 Parus cristatus {L). 



Accidental visitant, of very rare occurrence. 



In Great Britain the Crested Tit is confined to the woods 

 on Speyside, Scotland ; it breeds in the low country of Holland 

 and elsewhere on the Continent. 



It is of very rare occurrence in this county, though an 

 early reference is made to it by that old ornithologist, W. 

 Lewin, who remarked so long ago as 1797, " It has been 

 killed in Scotland and also in Yorkshire." (" Brit. Birds," 

 Vol. iv., p. 46.) 



Thomas A His thus alluded to it in 1844 : — 



Parus cristatus. — Crested Tit. My friend J. Heppenstall states 

 that one was seen in a garden at Thorne. 



In addition to the occurrences mentioned by Lewin and 



