232 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Hallamshire ; variants are Pinot at Skelmanthorpe, near 

 Huddersfield ; Pienet at Huddersfield, Pynot in the West 

 Riding, Piannot in Craven, Pianet in Cleveland, Pyannot 

 and Pyet in Swaledale, and Nan-piannot in Craven ; other 

 North Riding names are Tell-pie-tit, Tell-piet, Tell-pienot, 

 Tell-pie, or Pie-nanny, as discussed in the folk-lore ; while 

 Pied Margaret is a Swaledale term. 



JACKDAW. 

 Corvus monedula (L.). 



Resident, common and generally distributed. An influx of 

 migrants observed in autumn, in company with Rooks. 



An early allusion to this bird in Yorkshire was made by 

 Pennant in his accoimt of Knaresborough in 1773, thus : — 

 " Near this place (Knaresborough) the vaste precipitous cliffs, 

 darkened with the ivy that spreads over their sides, exhibit 

 a most magnificent scenery. Daws inhabit and caw far 

 above on the face of it (the rocks)." (Pennant's " Tour from 

 Alston Moor to Harrogate and Brimham Crags," 1804, p. 104.) 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Corviis monedula. — Jackdaw — Common in almost every district, 

 but stated to be rare at Hebden Bridge and Huddersfield ; the number 

 of these birds is reported by A. Strickland to have increased con- 

 siderably of late years about the rocks at Flamborough. 



As a common resident, the " Jack " as it is usually known 

 in Yorkshire, needs but little notice ; it is generally diffused 

 in the county where facilities for its nesting sites are found, 

 and is absent only from the bleak moorlands. 



As a migrant, however, the bird is not so well known, 

 and deserves more attention in that connection, and here 

 the Migration Reports may be consulted for evidence respecting 

 its occurrence at the light stations. It is seen to cross the 

 North Sea in autumn often in great numbers, and associated 



