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of this species to be shot in the British Islands before the 

 unbelieving ornithologist would even begin to admit the 

 possibility of a genuine wild specimen having occurred on 

 this side of the Channel. It is therefore, I suppose, no use 

 to mention that a Black Woodpecker has been seen at large 

 within the last two years in Norfolk by a competent observer, 

 J. M. Mitchell, Esq., of Monument Chambers, London. 



Since the above was written the Rev. E. T. Daubeny, of 

 Thetford, Norfolk, has stated that a cock bird was observed 

 at Ixworth in July 1897, and three weeks later a pair at 

 Euston Park. Three were observed at the latter place in 

 April 1902, and one in October. 



Rambles on the Lincolnshire Wold. 



By A. E. Johnson. 



To No. 3 of the F. N. Q. it was the privilege of the present 

 writer to contribute a brief paper on " The Gulls of Twig- 

 more Warren." Therein some account was given of the 

 remarkable breeding rendezvous of a large colony of black- 

 headed gulls at Scawby in North Lincolnshire, a hamlet 

 situated a few miles south of Scunthorpe, the principal town 

 (or large village rather) of the neighbourhood. It is with 

 Scunthorpe and the surrounding district that the present 

 paper proposes to deal. To the "tourist" travelling by 

 road or rail through this part of northern Lincolnshire the 

 country may seem perhaps uninteresting, though it has, to 

 those who traverse it rightly, a fascination and a charm 

 quite its own. But this apart, the locality is singularly 

 rich in matters of interest to naturalist, geologist, and 

 archaeologist. 



Briefly, Scunthorpe lies about midway on the Great 

 Central line from Doncaster to Grimsby, approximately 

 due north of Lincoln, and about ten miles south of the 

 Humber. It is situated in the district known as the 

 Lincolnshire Wold, and — more precisely — on the curious 

 low ridge of "Cliff Hills" which runs northward from 



