FIELD NOTES. 
BIRDS. 
Sanderlings in the Calder Valley.—On May 2oth, with 
two friends, I visited a small gullery (black-headed) at White 
Holme Reservoir, Blackstone Edge, a few miles from Hebden 
Bridge, and there saw a bird which I had no difficulty in 
recognising as a Sanderling. It was probably an example 
just about to attain its first real summer plumage. Shortly 
afterwards, the occurrence of Sanderlings in the district was 
reported at a meeting of the Ovenden Naturalists’ Society, 
and through the courtesy of Mr. E. Roberts, who answered my 
enquiries, I am able to state that Sanderlings have been ob- 
served almost daily from the last week in April to June 8th, 
on a large sewage farm near Sowerby Bridge, by Messrs. 
Ralph Bates and H. Priestley. There were four birds until 
the first week in May, when two disappeared, but the other 
two remained until May 25th, and one was observed as recently 
as June 8th. This is the first record of the species in the half 
dozen years’ existence of the Hebden Bridge Literary and 
Scientific Society.—WALTER GREAVES. 
Increase in the Grasshopper Warbler and Corncrake 
in the West Riding.— Unfortunately, Mr. H. E. Forrest’s 
interesting note (ante p. 232), on the abundance of the Nightin- 
gale in Shropshire, and to the north and north-west of its usual 
habitats, does not apply to this district, where I have never 
heard nor seen a Nightingale. The feature of this season, 
however, in the return of the smaller summer-migrants, is the 
increase of Grasshopper Warblers—the rarest of our local 
warblers. There is a pair at Ben Rhydding (where I have not 
known it to occur previously), and I hear of three more pairs, 
all the four being within an area that could be covered in twelve 
miles ‘as the crow flies.’ The comparative significance of 
these four pairs can better be judged when I state that I have 
never before known more than one pair in the same area in 
any one season, and that usually three or four years at the least 
elapses between the visits of even a single pair. The Corn- 
crake, which has been decreasing for several years now, until 
it has almost become a rare bird here, has, I am pleased to say, 
returned in rather greater numbers this season.—H. B. Boorn, 
Ben Rhydding. 
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Mr, E. C. Senior, assistant at the Leeds Art Gallery, has been appointed 
curator of the Art Gallery and Museum at Doncaster. 
The Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club held its ‘long meeting ’ 
this year in Yorkshire, from June 12th to 17th. Headquarters were at 
Harrogate ; and York, Bempton, Knaresborough, and Aldborough were 
also visited. Messrs. Benson, Grabham, Fortune, and Sheppard acted 
as guides. 
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