40 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
night at Strines on the Derbyshire border. The 
identity of the bird was vouched for by the late 
Professor Williamson, Joseph Sidebotham, and John 
Watson, well-known Manchester naturalists. Mr. Joel 
Wainwright, who has detailed the circumstances of its 
visit,2 tells us that the bird was first heard in his 
garden, which, though politically in Derbyshire, is 
on the Cheshire side of the Goyt. In the same year 
another bird was said to have taken up its quarters in 
a hanging wood on the banks of the Dean at Wilms- 
low, where it was heard nightly by a great number 
of people, many of whom affirmed that there was no 
mistake about the species. In the following year it 
was widely reported that a bird was to be heard in 
Birkenhead Park; but the evidence was far from satis- 
factory, it being alleged that the songster was not a 
feathered one and that a hoax had been perpetrated. 
Mr. Thomas Worthington, an accurate observer, re- 
marked the occurrence of a Nightingale in Peel Wood, 
Northenden, in 1882, where it was heard singing from 
the Ist to the 24th of May.’ Mr. C. Hope reported 
that he heard one in a wood at Bromborough on June 
9th, 1883;° but no confirmatory evidence was put 
forward at the time, and this occurrence cannot be 
regarded as established. 
In Lowcross Gorse, in the parish of Tilston, near 
Malpas, a Nightingale sang every night during May 
1889, and the fact was recorded by the Rey. C. Wolley- 
1 Williamson, Manchester Guardian, May 15, 1862. 
2 Wainwright, Memories of Marple, 1899. 
3 J. Plant, Manchester Guardian, cited in Field, vol. xix. pp. 444, 
469. 1862. 
4T. Fry, Naturalists’ Scrap-book, p. 53. Field, vol. xxi. p. 524. 1863. 
C. Gregson, Naturalists’ Scrap-book, p. 53. N. Cooke, ibid. p. 67. 
5 Manchester City News, May 20 and June 8, 1882. 
§ Field, vol. 1xi. p. 809. 1883. 
