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man says this is not the first time he has heard of its appear* 

 ance here. In May and June 1881 one frequented a wood 

 near Bagby, about three miles from Thirsk. 



Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, Bart., observes that a Nightin- 

 gale frequented the home wood at Thirkleby Park about 

 1874. He heard it himself, and the fact is particularly 

 impressed upon his memory, for the people from Thirsk, 

 three-and-a-half miles distant, used to make excursions 

 to hear the bird. 



An instance of a pair of these birds nesting at Normanby 

 House in Cleveland, some seven miles west of Redcar, in 

 a locality much further north (indeed, in almost the extreme 

 N.E. corner of the county) than any recorded at the period 

 referred to by Mr. Eagle Clarke, has been known to me for 

 some time ; I am indebted to the well-known veteran 

 Yorkshire sportsman, Mr. Thomas Parrington, for a cir* 

 cumstantial account of the occurrence, which was in the 

 early " forties." 



The supposed instance of a Nightingale at Tollesby, in 

 Cleveland (op. cit, 1890, p. 271), is doubtful. A closer in- 

 vestigation of the subject shews that, although Mr. Emerson 

 frequently heard the bird sing after dark in a high thorn 

 hedge, and had little doubt in his own mind as to its identity, 

 he never obtained a view of it. I cannot, therefore, accept 

 it as a true record. 



In the extreme southern-eastern position of the Central 

 Plain, at the foot of the Wolds at Market Weighton, in June 

 1880, one had been singing every night in the wood at Harswell 

 Rectory for a week or ten days, which was an unusual occur- 

 rence so far north, though not without precedent in this neigh- 

 bourhood. This last remark is correct, for the Hon. Francis 

 H. Dawnay communicated the information that one was heard 

 at Everingham Park, the seat of Lord Herries, a few years 

 before 1880 ; while at Brough in 1880 a pair nested, brought 

 up their young safely, and left in August. Near the same place 

 a pair bred for four years previous to 1900. The nest was 

 found on two occasions, and Mr. L. West shewed me an egg 



