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was very dusky, like a Hooded Crow on the back ; another 

 was seen (Sixth Migration Report, p. 53). 



Redcar, one, 23rd November 1889 {Nat. 1890, p. 100) ; in 

 my collection. 



Aldborough, one in 1894. 



Hull, Rolleston Hall, one seen, November 1901 {Field, 

 23rd November 1901). 



CHOUGH. 



Pyrrhocorax graculus (/^ ). 



Accidental visitant, of extremely rare occurrence. 



The first notice of this species in Yorkshire is contained 

 in Allis's Report, 1844 : — 



Fregilus graculus. — Chough — H. Reid informs me that one was killed 

 by the gamekeeper of Mr. Randall Gossip at Hatfield, and went into 

 the possession of Mr. Joseph Cook of Rotherham. F. O. Morris 

 mentions one as being killed near Sheffield and preserved by H. Reid 

 of Doncaster, probably the last mentioned bird, which I presume 

 to be the same specimen also mentioned by my friend J. Heppenstall. 



This striking looking bird is resident in some remote 

 districts in the British Islands, one of its chief strongholds 

 being on the wild west coast of Ireland ; another colon}' is 

 established on one of the islands of the Inner Hebrides, and 

 a few pairs still breed on the Isle of Man and on the coast of 

 Wales, but in Cornwall, whence it derives its best known 

 name, the Cornish Chough has been reduced to very limited 

 numbers. 



In Yorkshire it is now only an extremely rare and casual 

 wanderer, though the probability of its former existence 

 as a resident is inferred from the discovery of an ulna in 

 Kirkdale Cave preserved in the British Museum (R. Lydekker, 

 Ibis, July 1891, p. 385). Further confirmatory evidence 

 respecting its history in this county is supplied by Mr. K. 

 McLean, who states that an old man who worked, in the 



