232 Field Notes. 
Webera elongata. Mentioned previously rather doubtfully, 
is to be found in fair quantity. 
On another occasion we visited the higher limestone rocks 
on Simon Fell, the easterly shoulder of the mountain. Here 
we got Thuidium philibertt Limpr. This moss has not been 
found in England before, its habitat being the highest Scotch 
mountains. Messrs. Wilson and Wheldon have kindly con- 
firmed this identification. Once we were driven by snow- 
storms to take refuge below in the Ingleton Gylls, and there 
found Rhabdoweisia denticulata B. and S., the other West 
Yorkshire locality for which is Cautley Spout. Mr. Haxby has 
since found it near Warfe on the lower slopes of Moughton 
Scar. We also found Plerogonium gracile Swartz here. 
To leave these rocks and cross the Craven faults for the 
rough grits south of Clapham Station is to get on a very different 
type of mosses, and up Keasden beck the change is well seen. 
Here Catherinea crispa James grows with Tvrichostomum 
tenuirostre Lindb., both these being new to the Lune drainage. 
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BIRDS. 
Abundance of the Nightingale in Shropshire.—The 
present season is remarkable for the extraordinary influx of 
Nightingales into Shropshire. The normal range of this 
species is confined to the Severn valley, south of Shrewsbury, 
though in certain years (e.g., Ig02 and 1905), a few birds have 
occurred in scattered localities to the N. and N.W. of that 
area. This year the Nightingales are unusually numerous in 
their regular habitats—a friend of mine heard or saw twelve 
in a ramble of about three miles between Coalport and Broseley 
—whilst already I have heard of many in various places quite 
outside their known range in the directions indicated above. 
It would be well for Yorkshire naturalists to keep a special 
look-out for the Nightingale to the N. and N.W. of Doncaster, 
in order to ascertain how far beyond its normal range the 
species extends this season. Even if the result is negative, 
it will be interesting as showing that the unusual immigration 
affects only the western side of the kindgom.—H. E. Forrest, 
Shrewsbury. 
Nightingale near Collingham.—A_ pair of Nightingales 
have taken up their abode in a small coppice on the banks of 
the Wharfe at Linton. The cold weather prevailing at the 
time of migration may have prevented more than an odd pair 
or so penetrating into Yorkshire, although letters from friends 
in the regular haunts of these birds confirms Mr. Forrest’s 
statements above that they are unusually numerous.—R. 
FORTUNE. 
Naturalist, 
