320 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



W. M. Morris mentioned in the Naturalist (1853, p. 60), 

 one killed near Stockton-on-Tees on nth October 1852. 



A pair was obtained at Grinkle in 1865, and Mr. K. 

 McLean has seen examples nailed up on the walls of 

 keepers' cottages in that neighbourhood. 



George Mussell, taxidermist, of Middlesbrough, informs 

 me that he had several specimens sent for preservation from 

 Ugthorpe in the " seventies," by the late Thomas Vaughan. 



The late E. Chapman observed [Nat. 1886, p. 183), that 

 two females were noted in Wensleydale by Capt. Other ; one 

 in 1870, at Bolton Gill, and the second about the same time 

 in Howdah Wood, Bainbridge. 



In the Western Ainsty, Mr. E. R. Waite mentions a speci- 

 men picked up dead in a rookery at Thorp Arch, in 1874, and 

 another at Wetherby. 



The late T. Lister of Barnsley informed Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke that one was taken in December 1875 on the moors 

 beyond Penistone. 



On 30th November 1876, the late James Varley of Hudders- 

 field saw a female at Hebden Bridge. 



An immature specimen was obtained near Filey early in 

 February 1877, its capture being communicated to the 

 Zoologist (1877, p. 179), by the Rev. J. G. Tuck. 



Mr. James Backhouse of York mentions (Friends' " Nat. 

 Hist. Journal," 1877, p. 56), that he saw one near that city 

 about March 12th, and another at Askham Bog on the 19th 

 of the same month, 1877. 



Mr. R. Standen states (MS.), that one was seen near the 

 Sykes, Bowland, in May 1877. 



The Hull Museum contains a male from Rylston Fell, Skip- 

 ton, in September 1878, and a female killed on the river Hull. 



A young male, in rich immature plumage, was captured 

 on the warren at Kilnsea in Holderness on i6th October 1879, 

 and was forwarded to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the following day. 



In addition to the above, Mr. R. Lee of Thirsk remarks 

 that it has been reported at Knapton ; and A. Roberts of 

 Scarborough said it sometimes occurs on the moors near that 

 town. Three pairs came under the notice of the late G. Page 



