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another seen the same day. The specimen procured was an 

 immature bird, in which state of plumage the two species, C 

 leucocyana and C. suecica, are indistinguishable. 



21. Daulias luscinia (L.) ; Nightingale. — The northern range 

 of this bird has been extended as far north as Scarborough, where 

 it undoubtedly bred in 1883 (W. Robinson). At Staveley, near 

 Boroughbridge, two pairs nested in 1881 (Knubley), and a pair 

 nested near Harrogate in 1883 (Inchbald). 



37. Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.); Reed Warbler, Mr. 

 Seebohm in his 'British Birds' remarks that "it seems very 

 doubtful whether the Reed Warbler breeds in Great Britain 

 north of the Humber." This statement is of course quite 

 erroneous, for the species is known to breed commonly in various 

 localities which are not only north of the Humber, but some 

 of them actually in the northern half of the county— as, for 

 instance, Staveley, near Boroughbridge, and Knaresborough, in 

 both of which localities it nests annually. It is also a regular 

 nesting species near Leeds ; and at Hornsea Mere, in the East 

 Riding, it breeds in great abundance. This is not the only 

 instance in which we have to regret the vague and sketchy manner 

 in which such an important subject as the distribution of birds 

 in Great Britain is treated in so valuable a work. 



71a. Lanius major, Pallas; Pallas's Great Grey Shrike.— 

 This form is allowed specific rank by Mr. Seebohm in his work 

 on British Birds. From the number of Yorkshire specimens that 

 have come under Clarke's notice it is in all probability not only 

 an annual winter visitant, but perhaps of much more frequent 

 occurrence than is suspected. 



93. Linota linaria (L.) ; Mealy Redpoll.— The year 1881 may 

 be added to the list of seasons in which this species occurred in 

 large flocks in the county. 



96. Lmota flavirostris (L.) ; Twite. — Mr. Allis's statement 

 that this bird had bred on Thorne Waste is paralleled by the 

 observations of the Rev. H. H. Slater (Nat. 1882, p. 179), who 

 found it nesting on Pilmoor, near Thirsk, a similar low-lying 

 locality. 



107. Emheriza cirlus, L. ; Cirl Bunting. — Additional occur- 

 rence. Fen Bog, near Whitby, a female shot on the 28th of 

 February, 1882, now in the Whitby Museum. Two others were 

 seen at the same time and place (Stephenson). 



