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field an example occurred in November 1870, and another 

 was shot whilst sitting on the church top at Mappleton, near 

 Hornsea, as recorded by Mr. Barchard in the Field, 9th 

 August 1890. Formerly small parties occasionally ascended 

 the river Hull for some miles above Beverley, where they are 

 said to have been taken on night lines baited with roach and 

 set for pike, but they have not been noticed of late years ; in 

 March 1903, Mr. W. Morris saw one on the Lune at Sedbergh. 



The nests at Whitby High Lights are much lighter in 

 construction than those I have examined elsewhere, being 

 usually not more massive than Gulls' nests, and in the year 

 1903, amongst the materials used by one pair of birds, was 

 found a child's toy whip. 



Variations in plumage are seldom reported, though, in 

 October 1879, I obtained an example at Redcar having three 

 of the tail feathers partially white from the tips for a space 

 of about two inches. 



The local names are : Lang Crane at Redcar ; Lintie 

 Cock or Liltie Cock at Staithes ; and Ralphie or Dykie at 

 Whitby ; these last terms from one Tom Langlands who 

 had a couple of tame birds, called by these names, which 

 fished in the harbour, and so the fishermen came to know 

 them thus. 



SHAG. 

 Phalacrocorax graculus (L.). 



Bird of passage on the coast, when on its way to and from its 

 breeding stations. Used formerly to nest at Flamborough. 



Pennant was the first to make mention of the Shag in 

 Yorkshire, for we find that he visited Flamborough on his 

 journey to Scotland in 1769, and thus alluded to the subject 

 under notice : " Multitudes [of birds] were swimming about, 

 others swarmed in the air, and almost stunned us with the 

 variety of their croaks and screams ; I observed among them 

 .... Shags in small flocks." (" A Tour in Scotland," 1771, 

 p. 15.) And in his " British Zoology " (1770, IV. p. 27), 



