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BIRDS. 
their arrival on the headland, and has known them killed 
by flying against the light in thick, foggy weather, with the 
wind E.N.E. He has also seen them on their departure 
in September, and has noticed several in October and 
November. Inland, it is extremely rare, being recorded as 
observed near Leeds (several times, two or three in 1843), 
and once near Bingley. 
Sub-fam. SYZVIINE. 
Cyanecula wolfi C. Z. Brehm. White-spotted Blue- 
throat. 
Accidental visitant from Central and Western Europe, of 
extremely rare occurrence. 
Near Scarborough, a female picked up dead beneath the 
telegraph wires, about the gth of April, 1876 (Tuck, Zool., 
1876, p. 4956). 
Cyanecula suecica (Z.). Red-spotted Bluethroat. 
Erithacus rubecula (Z.). Redbreast. 
Resident, generally distributed, abundant. Immigrants are 
observed on the coast in the autumn, often in large num- 
bers, returning early in March. 
Daulias luscinia (Z.). Nightingale. 
Summer visitant, of regular occurrence in very limited num- 
bers in the neighbourhood of Barnsley, Wakefield, York, 
Beverley, Patrington, Brough, Selby, and Doncaster, 
arriving early in May. West and north of the frontier 
formed by these towns it is only of exceptional occurrence, 
and a line drawn from Huddersfield, through Bradford, 
Otley, and Ripon, to Baldersby, Bagby, and Sessay, near 
Thirsk, and thence to Flamborough Head, will include all 
the localities for which there is satisfactory evidence of its 
ever having occurred or bred, and also defines the extreme 
northern limit of its distribution in Britain. 
The Hon. F. H. Dawnay informs me that a pair passed 
the summer of 1868 at Baldersby Park, in 1876 it occurred 
at Sessay, and this year (1881) I am told by Mr. Robert 
Lee that it has appeared at Bagby—all near Thirsk. In 
1876 it nested at Little Thorp, near Bridlington, an egg 
being sent for my inspection by Mr. W. F. Foster. There 
is also reliable evidence of its occurrence in other localities, 
