FIELD NOTES. 



MAMMALS, 



449 



Lesser Shrew at Hebden Bridge. — Previous to Sep 

 temher i8th, the only exidence of the occurrence of the Lesser 

 Shrew at Hebden Bridge was the finding of a jaw bone in the 

 castings of a KestreL On the above date a sjiecimen which 

 Mr. T. A. Coward describes as adult, was put into my hands 

 by Mr. Wm. Nowell, found dead by him in a garden situated 

 at an altitude of about one thousand feet above the sea level. — 

 Walter Greaves. 



BIRDS. 



Qannets in Yorkshire. — On October 20th, a tine speci- 

 men of a Gannet {Siila bassa}ia) was picked up near Wetherby. 

 It was a bird of the year, in tine immature plumage, and had 

 evidently been slightly injured by a gun shot. Unfortunately, 

 I did not hear of the bird until a few days after its capture, 



and ten days 

 1 was able to 

 see it. In the 

 captor had 

 cred with a 

 leg, by the side 

 had fed it 

 able food, such 

 etc. Directly 

 I took it home 

 good feed of 

 tograp^hed it, 

 late to save its 

 next morning 

 in a state of 



R. Fortune, F./^.S.] 



Young Gannet. 



I Photo. 



elapsed before 

 go over and 

 meantime its 

 kept it teth- 

 string to its 

 of a ditch, and 

 upon unsuit- 

 as bread, oats, 

 I saw the bird 

 and gave it a 

 fish, and pho- 

 but it was too 

 life, the bird 

 being found 

 collapse, hav- 



ing vom.ited up the tish 1 had given it, together with a quantity 

 of oats, etc., and a quantity of evil smelling bile. Of the latter 

 there would be over a gill. Acute gastric catarrh had evidently 

 made it impossible for the stomach to retain the food. 

 The man who found the bird states he saw another one 

 flying over at the same time. Mr. F. Boyes in ' The 

 Field ' for November 5th, records a further specimen, picked 

 up at Tickton, near Beverley, about the same date. The 

 stormy weather prevailing at this date had no doubt driven 

 them inland. Mr. Sheppard informs me that he saw a speci- 

 men, an old bird, washed up on the beach at Bridlington on 

 October 30th. — R. Fortune. 



1910 Dec. I 



