50 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



in July 1811, in Gorton fields near Manchester, and 

 another at Quernmore Park near Lancaster, which 

 latter is now preserved in the museum of that town. 

 In 1868, according to the Report of tlie Bury Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, 1871, one was shot at Cockey Moor by Mr. C. 

 Jackson, another being in its company, and Mr. John 

 Eay Hardy some years ago, in the autumn, saw two 

 specimens out of three or four which had been killed in 

 one week in Hough End Clough, near Manchester. 

 Mr. John Weld writes me that a pair was seen for a 

 short time in the summer of 1870, frequenting the 

 spaall gardens and enclosures in the bottoms near 

 Chipping. The male bird was shot in a garden in 

 Leagram, and the female was seen for a few days after- 

 wards, but soon left the neighbourhood. 



FAMILY LANIID.E.— GENUS LANIUS. 



GEE AT GEEY SHEIKE. 



Lanius excubitor, Linnseus. 



A rare autumn and winter visitor, which, however, 

 has occurred too often to make its captures worth 

 detailing ; these including birds of the year, as well as 

 males and females in full adult plumage. I have no 

 records from north of the immediate neighbourhood 

 of Preston, where one was seen by Mr. J. B. Hodg- 

 kinson in 1882 so early as the month of August. [The 

 Eev. H. A. Macpherson informs me that he had records 

 of a few examples from the Furness district. — Ed.] The 

 latest date I have in spring is the 18th of April, when 

 a bird was got in Heaton Park in 1867 by Mr. Wright 

 Johnson. An interesting note by Mr. Blackwall, on 



