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In this county it is a rare and irregular visitant, only five 

 instances of its capture being chronicled. 



At Campsall, near Doncaster, one is said to have occurred, 

 on the authority of Neville Wood (Lancaster's " Askern," 

 1842, p. 70). 



At Wakefield one was obtained in the autumn of 1865, 

 and was purchased by Mr. J. E. Harting from G. Lumb, 

 who had it in the flesh (Harting's " Handbook," 2nd Ed., 

 p. 388). 



Mr. T. Boynton of Bridlington has a specimen, which 

 he informs me was procured in Boynton Woods, and was 

 formerly in the Bessingby collection belonging to the late 

 Harrington Hudson. 



The Rev. G. D. Armitage possesses an example which 

 was killed at Dungeon Wood, Huddersfield, in 1870, and 

 was purchased of Mr. S. L. Mosley who preserved it (Armitage, 

 in litt.). 



And finally, on 5th January 1901, one was killed by a 

 keeper at Ilkley, and was acquired by Mr. A. Page on the 

 same day {Ibis, 1901, p. 737). 



JAY. 

 Garrulus s^landarius (Z.). 



Resident ; not uncommon in some wooded districts, though 

 decreasing owing to constant persecution ; occasionally observed 

 in autumn as an immigrant. 



The earliest allusion to this species in Yorkshire appears 

 to be in the appendix to Graves's " History of Cleveland," 

 1808, where it is enumerated in the list of birds. 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : — 



Garrulus glandartus. — Jay — Frequently met with in most parts ; 

 rare near Hebden Bridge, and stated by R. Leyland to be nearly 

 extirpated about Halifax. 



This handsome woodland bird shares, with the hawk and 

 crow families, the unenviable notoriety of figuring on the 



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