112 ' BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



on-Wyre in summer of 1849 (Hugh P. Hornby) : Four 

 shot at Knowsley, now in the Derby Museum, Liver- 

 pool ; one at Edge Hill ; at Formby and elsewhere 

 (Byerley, "Fauna of Liverpool," 1856): One shot at 

 Knott End, about 1864, by K. Croft (H. Miller) : One, 

 a young male, killed near Ashton-under-Lyne in May, 

 1865 (C. W. Levis, Zoologist, 1865) : One, a male, shot 

 at Garston early in September, 1867, and one at Everton 

 a few years previously {Liverpool Naturalist's Journal, 

 October, 1867) : One shot at Eingley Moss, July 3rd, 

 1869, a second being seen in the woods adjoining the 

 Park, Pilkington, the same week (Pi. Davenport) : One, 

 a male, obtained near Cuerden Hall, Preston, August, 

 1875 (H. Shaw, Field, August 28, 1875) : One on the 

 Eibble at Eedscar, some years ago (J. B. Hodgkinson). 



[The Eev. H. A. Macpherson adds : One, Walney 

 Island, in the spring of 1884.— Ed.] 



FAMILY CUCULID^.— GENUS CUCULUS, 



CUCKOO. 



CuCULUS CANORUS, LimiffiUS. 



This familiar summer visitor is stated by Blackwall 

 (" Eesearehes in Zoology ") to arrive in the neighbour- 

 hood of Manchester on the 20th of April, and to leave 

 the 27th of June, the mean temperature in the shade on 

 the former date being 47°, and on the latter 59°, and 

 the observations extending over the fifteen years from 

 1814 to 1828. From the comparison of a very large 

 number of notices which have reached me, I should 

 conclude that, on the whole, about a week later, or the 

 27th of April, is nearer the average ; but the dates of 



