424 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



where it is stated that Mr. Jessop sent a specimen " out of 

 Yorkshire." In Ray's correspondence is the letter accompany- 

 ing the bird : " Broomhall, 25th November 1668. Mr. 

 Jessop to Mr. Ray. Sir .... I have procured the skin of 

 a great bird, which he that gave it me called a Scarfe ; but 

 I believe it will prove a Bernicle. The description of it I 

 sent to Mr. Willughby. ... I am, etc., Fra Jessop." (" Ray's 

 Corresp.," Ed. Lank. 1848, p. 33.) 

 Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : 



Anser leucopsis. Bernicle Goose R. Leyland reports two being 

 killed on Midgley Moor, 2nd September 1836 ; H. Reid says it is 

 frequently shot near Doncaster in severe weather ; taken occasionally 

 near Huddersfield on the Marsden, Slaithwaite, Meltham, and Holm- 

 firth Moors ; occasionally met with near York ; H. Denny reports 

 it as rare near Leeds, but one was shot at Rigton in 1837. A. Strickland 

 reports that it may at times be found on the sea shore during severe 

 winter weather, on the extensive flats of the Humber during low tides. 



The Bernacle is of rare and irregular occurrence in winter 

 on the coast ; it is met with occasionally on the Humber, 

 where three were shot on Christmas Day 1875, and in 1891 

 Mr. L. West saw one at Brough in the higher portion of the 

 estuary. It has also been obtained at long intervals in the 

 neighbourhood of Bridlington and Flamborough ; at the latter 

 place Mr. M. Bailey told me he had only had two or three 

 specimens to preserve. It has occurred at Filey ; Scar- 

 borough, where it is described as rare ; Robin Hood's Bay, 

 and Loftus. 



In Cleveland J. Hogg (Zool. 1845, p. 1178), mentioned it 

 as " occasionally killed on the Tees, but a rare bird," and 

 Morris recorded one procured from a flock of nine on Coatham 

 Marsh on 1st October 1853. Geo. Mussell, however, informs 

 me that fifty years ago it was by no means uncommon ; about 

 the year 1857 fourteen were killed at one shot at the Teesmouth, 

 and the professional fowlers frequently obtained from four 

 to ten birds in a day. It is now very rare, and I have noted 

 it in two instances only : on 28th September 1883, I saw a 

 flock of eleven which passed me on Coatham sands, and on 

 1st October following I purchased a winged female from a 

 fisherman who had caught it on the Tees sands, and which 



