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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 

 Stormy Petrel near Barnsley. — On November 15th a 

 Stormy Petrel was found dead at Staincross, near Barnsley, 

 having down against the telegraph wires. The bird was in fair 

 condition, and is now in the Barnsley Naturalists' Society's 

 Museum. — W. Barraclough, Barnsley, December 7th, igog. 



Unseasonable Nesting Dates. — On November 27th, Mr. 

 R. Fisher, Junr., of Lecon field, reported that a Rook was feeding 

 young on his father's farm ; and that two witnesses besides him- 

 self had seen it. On November 2gth, Mr. Sidney S. Waterhouse 

 found a pair of Starlings feeding young at Sutton. On looking 

 into the nest he found four half-grown young dead, and one 

 alive, crying out for food. — E. W. Wade, Hull. 



Glossy Ibis in Holderness. — In the shop of a bird- 

 stuffer at Hull are two Glossy Ibises, shot on the Lambwath 

 in Holderness, one on the igth of October, unsexed, as the 

 intestines were so much injured by shot as to make it impossible 

 to distinguish the sex; and another on November loth — a male. 

 Both are in the im_mature plumage shown in Dresser's plate, 

 and exactly alike so far as one can see in their present stuffed 

 condition, but the bill of the first is half an inch longer than 

 that of the second. Another was seen, but escaped by 

 running into the reeds when its companion was shot, and 

 may have been the one seen at Hornsea Mere and on the 

 River Hull.— E. W. Wade, Hull. 



Migration of Terns. — With reference to the note in last 

 month's ' Naturalist ' re the ringing of birds. I have obtained 

 fourteen rings, all taken from young Common Terns, which I 

 find had been reared at Ravenglass this year ; the particulars 

 are as follows: — One specimen was ringed on July 22nd, eight 

 on July 30th, three on August loth, and two on August 13th. 

 They were all caught in the fishermen's bird nets at Flook- 

 burgh, on the north side of Morecambe Bay, between Grange 

 and Ulverston, between September 12th and i8th. From these 

 records, the migration of the birds had apparently continued 

 for about eight days in the neighbourhood. Some terns were 

 caught during x\ugust and at the beginning of September, but 

 none was found with rings on. Nor were any ringed specimens 

 amongst those caught after September 18th. — H. B. Turney, 

 Lightburn Avenue, Ulverston. 



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