8 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



At Flamborough they were noticed daily resorting to the 

 shore at low water to search for food among the seaweed 

 and refuse fish, and when the tide rose they sought shelter at 

 the base of the cliffs, where scores perished. 



Their sojourn extends until April, and the 27th of that 

 month is my latest date for their departure. The Redwing 

 is reported to have nested in the county on several occasions, 

 and although it is to be regretted that the evidence is not 

 conclusive, it is yet of such a nature as to be worthy of 

 recapitulation. John Hogg, in his " Catalogue of Birds of 

 N.W. Cleveland and S.E. Durham" (Zool. 1845, p. 1056), 

 stated, " Mr. J. W. Ord has informed me that a Redwing's 

 nest with four eggs was found at Kildale in 1840. John Bell, 

 Esq., M.P., has two of those eggs, and the other two are at 

 Kildale Hall, in the possession of E. H. Turton, Esq." 



Under the heading of " Nesting of the Redwing in North 

 Yorkshire," Major H. W. Feilden wrote (op. cit. 1873, pp. 

 3411-12) : " The following note to an article on Natural 

 History, by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, appears in the People's 

 Magazine for December 1872, p. 379 : ' I obtained four 

 eggs about ten years ago from a nest in Commondale (North 

 Yorkshire), about which, from the circumstances connected 

 with bird, nest, and eggs, there could be no reasonable ground 

 of doubt as to their origin. Only I did not see the bird myself * 

 I received the eggs and the account from a person whose father 

 had been a gamekeeper, and whose own habits have led 

 him to act often as amateur keeper, and had made him 

 familiar with various birds and animals. Hence the eggs, 

 when shown to some metropolitan egg authorities, were 

 pronounced not Redwing's but Ring Ouzel's eggs. However, 

 during the past spring a Redwing's nest and eggs, together 

 with the parent bird herself, have been obtained at Glaisdale, 

 another district (originally of the same parish to which the 

 Commondale mentioned above belongs) ; the person meeting 

 with them being a very competent ornithologist and ex- 



* The italics are ours. 



