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twelve shillings and sixpence for the specimen when he arrived 

 at Middlesbrough station. 



The mention of the slag proves the shooting to have been 

 on the Yorkshire side, as that on the north side of the river 

 is tipped from Messrs. Bell Bros.' Clarence Works, and I 

 learn from Sir Hugh Bell that the tipping did not commence 

 (except in the immediate vicinity of the works) until 1872 

 or 1873, and there was no slag at all at Seaton Snook until 

 well on into the " seventies." The " Branch End " is on the 

 Yorkshire side, near Bolckow, Vaughan & Co.'s works, where 

 tipping was in progress before 1862.] 



HOOPOE. 



Upupa epops {L.). 



Casual visitant from Africa, of uncommon occurrence in spring 

 ; nd autumn, chiefly on the coast. 



The earliest mention of the Hoopoe in Yorkshire was made 

 by Marmaduke Tunstall, thus : — 



" Many Hoopoes were seen in Yorkshire .... in the 

 end of last summer ; one was sent me, shot within a few miles 

 of this place (Wycliffe-on-Tees) in September ; another, 

 about the same time, from Holderness, where many were 

 seen." (Tunst. MS. 1784, p. 61.) 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : — 



Upupa epops. — Hoopoe — F. O. Morris, in his Catalogue of Yorkshire 

 Birds, says three have been killed near Doncaster, and one seen in 

 1836 in Sir W. Cooke's woods ; also at Coatham, near Redcar, and 

 near Scarborough. — Hugh Reid of Doncaster says one was killed 

 at Armthorpe by Capt. Wilkinson, probably one of the before mentioned, 

 and another at Pontefract by Mr. Hepworth ; H. Denny reports one 

 was shot by the Honble. Edwin Lascelles, 8th October 1830, at Eccup, 

 a young specimen from a field of potatoes, and that another occurred 

 at Low Moor. R. Leyland mentions one shot on Skircoat Moor, 3rd 

 September 1840. Dr. Farrar says this bird is certainly one of our 

 rarest visitants ; I was informed by a friend, now deceased, that the 

 keepers of Henry Wheat, Esq., of Norwood, near Sheffield, had seen 



