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vol. i., p. 328) that the Pied Flycatcher "has never been recorded from 

 Ireland," that an adult female was shot in County Mayo, by Mr. R. Warren, 

 in April, 1875, and will be found recorded in 'The Zoologist' for 1875, 

 p. 4498. — Digby S. W. Nicholl (The Ham, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire). 



Hawfinch near Harrogate. — Last year I had a note upon this bird in 

 ' The Zoologist.' Since that appeared, I have discovered that it is much 

 more plentiful than I supposed it to be. Following I give the names of 

 no less than eleven places in the neighbourhood where it occurs regularly. 

 I have no compunction in doing so, because the places where it nests are 

 strictly preserved. The localities are all within eight miles from Harrogate, 

 viz., Studley (the estate of the Marquis of Ripon), Ripley Park, Rudding 

 Park, Panual, Bishop Thornton, near Brimham, Kuaresboro' (two places), 

 Ribston, Staveley, and Boston Spa. In 1885 this bird nested at Axwell 

 Park, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, a place which it frequents regularly. — 

 Riley Fortune (Harrogate). 



Bulwer's Petrel. — The following remarks by Prof. Newton, recently 

 published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' and relating to 

 a specimen of this bird found in Yorkshire, will be read with interest 

 by every ornithologist. On exhibiting the specimen in question, on 

 Nov. 15, 1887, Prof. Newton said: — " Some doubt having, it seems, been 

 expressed as to the occurrence of Bulwer's Petrel in this country, which 

 was announced by Gould in the concluding part of his ' Birds of Europe,' 

 published on the 1st of August, 1837, Mr. William Eagle Clarke, Curator 

 of the Museum of the Philosophical and Literary Society at Leeds, deter- 

 mined to investigate the facts ; and as his search for the specimen in 

 question has been successful, I have great pleasure in exhibiting it, on 

 his behalf. I have the greater pleasure in doing this as, but for his 

 perseverance and that of a local naturalist, Mr. James Carter, of Burton 

 House, Masham, the specimen would probably have been for ever lost 

 sight of, whereas we may now hope that it will find a permanently safe 

 abode. Gould's statement was that the specimen having been found dead 

 on the banks of the Ure, near Tanfield, in Yorkshire, on the 8th of May, 

 1837, was brought to Captain Dalton, of Slenuingford, near Ripon, a 

 gentleman, as I learn, who had succeeded to a collection of stuffed birds 

 begun by his father. The father was Colonel Dalton, who, curiously 

 enough, had sent Bewick the specimen of the Common Stormy Petrel (also 

 found dead in that neighbourhood) from which the figure and description in 

 his well-known work was taken (British Birds, ed. 1, ii. pp. 249 — 251). At 

 the end of last May, Mr. W. E. Clarke applied to Mr. Carter, and the first 

 result of the latter's inquiry was to find that the Dalton collection had been 

 dispersed by sale just a week before. Fortunately all the cases of stuffed 

 birds had been bought by persons living in Ripon ; and, having obtained 



