FIELD NOTES. 
MAMMALS. 
Bottle-nosed Whale at Spurn.—On December 14th, 
Mr Consett Hopper of Spurn Head, sent me word that on the 
previous day a whale had come ashore, just under what is 
known as the station, Spurn Head, the lke of which no one 
in the neighbourhood had ever seen before. Unfortunately, 
I was unable at the time to go down and see it and take 
a photograph of it, as I should much have liked to have done, 
but I wrote again to Mr. Hopper, and he kindly supplied me 
with a sketch of its head, from which I had no difficulty in 
recognizing it as a Beaked or Bottle-nosed Whale ( Hyperoodon 
yostratus). Mr. Hopper further informed me that it was twenty- 
five feet in length, slatey blue in colour, and estimated to 
weigh between nine and ten tons. It was very shortly after- 
wards cut up and buried by the coastguards. Curiously 
enough in the ‘ Zoologist ’ for January, Mr. A. H. Patterson, of 
Great Yarmouth, records the stranding of a whale of this 
species at Holme-next-the-Sea, near Hunstanton, on the 
Norfolk coast. on the very same date as the Yorkshire 
specimen came ashore, viz., December 13th.—OXLEY GRABHAM, 
York. 
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BIRDS. 
Waxwings in the Whitby District.—A small flock of 
Waxwings was seen near Whitby on December 2oth, and the 
two following days. The birds were not at all wild, and 
permitted near approach. They were feeding greedily on the 
“hips’ of the wild rose, which they swallowed whole.—THos. 
STEPHENSON, Whitby, 13th January, IgII. 
Whooper Swans in Wharfedale, etc.—Upon a lake in 
Lower Wharfedale, eight miles from Harrogate, there are at 
present (Jan.) eleven wild Whooper Swans. They are consorting 
with eight pinioned birds, which at different periods visited 
the lake in a wild state, but which were captured, and after 
they had been pinioned, were allowed their liberty in the 
lake, where they appear to thrive. Although now familiarised 
with the human form, they do not loose their shyness, and when 
strangers are about they either keep to the centre of the lake 
or on the far side. Mr. Nelson reports seeing Whoopers at the 
Tees mouth on November 19th.—R. FORTUNE. 
Another Pugnacious Grouse.— Since my note upon the 
Pugnacious Grouse appeared in ‘ The Naturalist ’ for December, 
I have received a communication from Mr. T. Turnbull, of 
Conisbro’, to the following effect :—‘ In August 1g0g9, I was 
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