ORNITHOLOGY OF RIDING MILL ON TYNE. 105 



I have had a good many opportunities of watching the old birds 

 carry their young to the feeding-grounds ; this is effected by 

 pressing the young to the breast with the feet, but the young 

 bird must be partly between the legs also, as it is so far " aft." 

 I have also seen Woodcocks "tilting" in the air, after the 

 manner described by Charles St. John, but later in the year 

 than he speaks of it as occurring, i. e. about the middle of May. 



Snipe, GallincKjo ccelestis, Frenzel. — Not uncommon during 

 the winter months in suitable localities. Breeds sparingly near 

 Healey. 



Jack Snipe, G. gaUimda, L. — A winter visitor in irregular 

 numbers. My earliest record is Oct. 9, 1878. 



Dunlin, Tringa alpina, L. — Single birds are occasionally seen 

 in spring by the Tyne, doubtless on their way to breeding-grounds 

 up the country. 



Eedshank, Totanus calidris, L. — Occasional examples seen by 

 the Tyne at migration times. 



Curlew, Numenius arquata, L. — A summer visitor, only seen 

 on Broomley Fell, where one or two pairs breed, or used to, 

 every year, whence I have examples both of the birds and eggs. 

 In 1877 it had arrived as early as March 27. 



Arctic Tern, Sterna macrura, Naum. ; Common Tern, S. 

 fluviatilis, Naum. — Eare casual visitors occasionally seen on the 

 Tyne. 



Black-headed Gull, Lams ridihundiis, L. — A migrant, passing 

 up the Tyne Valley in some numbers every year from the end of 

 April to the middle of May. 



Common Gull, Lams canus, L. ; Lesser Black-backed Gull, 

 L.fnscits, L. — Seen occasionally in stormy weather. 



Manx Shearwater, Pujjinus anglorum, Temm. — It may not be 

 out of place to mention that an exhausted specimen of this bird 

 was found and picked up on Crawley Side, near Stanhope, on 

 Sept. 9, 1876. 



Little Auk, Mergidus alle, L. — I obtained a specimen at Holy 

 Island on Jan. 1, 1879 ; it was shot in the deep water between 

 the Island and the Beacon. 



Eed-necked Grebe, Podice])s griseigena, Bodd. — I shot a pair 

 near the Inner Fame in the first week of December, 1876, an 

 adult female (with a neck still partially red), and a young male. 

 There were half-a-dozen others. 



