166 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



investigation reveals its loosely made nest, and it is more 

 likely to be noticed in autumn, when the young are out and 

 feeding in vegetable gardens. 



In the south of the county it was rare up to the 

 "sixties" ; it now breeds regularly, yet not numerously, near 

 Sheffield, Halifax, and Barnsley ; it is fairly abundant and 

 has greatly increased in the Aire Valley, where it was first 

 noted as a nester in 1878 ; near Wakefield it bred in several 

 places in 1876 and continues to do so annually ; it has increased 

 in the Huddersfield neighbourhood, where a few nests have 

 been known of recent years ; at Hebden Bridge the eggs 

 were found in 1883 ; it is rare near Selby and Askern ; at 

 Doncaster it is resident, though the fact of a nest being 

 discovered in 1863 was considered worthy of record in the 

 Ibis (1865) ; the young were found at Ackworth in 1881, 

 and up to 1889 it had nested regularly for several years in 

 the Pontefract district, but it is still a rare species near 

 Goole. In the Leeds area one or two localities are occasionally 

 favoured, as also are Otley and Staveley ; it is rather scarce 

 in lower Wharfedale, though some breed near Boston Spa 

 and other suitable places ; it has also been recorded from 

 Ben Rhydding in the upper portion of the valley, and at 

 Fewston in the Washburn valley ; Nidderdale claims it now 

 as an annual breeder, yet it was only detected there in 1886 ; 

 along the lower reaches of the stream it has increased, and 

 breeds near Harrogate, Ripley, Rudding Park, Knaresborough, 

 and Ribston Park. In the Ripon district it is fairly common 

 and increasing as a nesting species near the city and at Studley 

 Park ; it has also occurred at North Stainley. It is rare 

 generally in the north-west, but is now numerous at Bolton 

 Abbey and Bolton-by-Bowland, where it has been caught in 

 gardens and orchards when attacking the pea crops. 



In East Yorkshire the Hawfinch is a fairly abundant species 

 near Pocklington, Warter, and Nunburnholme ; at Scampston 

 it has only been identified within the past ten or twelve years, 

 but nests annually, and the late Col. B. B. Haworth-Booth 

 recorded nests at Hullbank House in 1893 and 1895 ; in 

 the Beverley district, where it may be described as nesting in 



