416 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the incessant harmonious clamour of the piping birds, and the 
complete novelty of the scene, inspired me deeply. The Golden 
Plover has a single sweet mellow pipe, which is answered by 
his mate a semitone lower; also a note, which he frequently 
repeats, =“~"s~, like the ‘Hallelujah’ of the ‘ Hallelujah 
Chorus,—and who knows but that this refrain may not have 
been thus suggested to the great composer !—while with some of 
his single pipes there is a beautiful and inimitable little roll. 
The Curlew keeps up an incessant ‘toor-r-lui, toor-r-lui,’ in a 
flute-like, melodious, piping tone, while the Grouse utters a 
peculiar guttural call as he flies off, in the time of what is 
generally understood as a ‘double knock,’ the syllable repeated 
being ‘coc.’ All these together form a chorus to be. heard 
nowhere else but in these moorlands.” 
The Woodcock sometimes appears on the moors. On the 
31st of October, 1871, I saw one near Greenhow Hill (1325 
feet). 
The Peewit (called ‘‘ Tewfit”) is generally distributed and very 
plentiful, ranging to at least an equal height. Young birds begin 
to call imperfectly in July. They come down to the Wharfe to 
drink just as it is getting dark, and continue crying “ peewit” as © 
late as a quarter pust nine. 
The Corn Crake is found in the larger dales, but does not 
ascend to their upper parts. 
The Heron pays periodical and solitary. visits to the dales. 
One was hanging about the Washburn from September 14th till 
October 31st, 1868, and doubtless much later. One came to the 
waterfall in Wath Wood, Nidderdale, on August 2nd, 1869; but 
with the exception of one or two occasions in the upper part of 
Wharfedale, I have not noted them elsewhere. 
I have been much struck with the tactical methods of the 
Snipe. On July 30th, 1868, I put up four of these birds in a 
stream among the broad meadows between Otley and Burley, in 
Wharfedale. They divided, each in its own course flying head- 
long at a great pace for about two hundred yards up stream. On 
being a second time roused they rose, each in its own course, to 
a great height, and flew right away. - 
The Common Sandpiper is found along the streams in the 
dales throughout the spring. I have no note of its occurrence 
above 900 feet. 
