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A'oies and Comments. 



WHITES THRUSH IX YORKSHIRE. 

 What is apparently the fourth example of White's Thrush 

 recorded for Yorkshire has just been placed in the Halifax 

 Museum, having- been shot in Luddenden Dean, near Halifax, 

 on December i8th last. The first example of this species 

 recorded in Britain was shot in Hampshire in 1828, and Eyton 

 g-ave it the name of White's Thrush {Turdus whiiei), in honour 

 of Gilbert White. Previous Yorkshire records are : — Hudders- 

 field (1864), Danby-in-Cleveland (1870), and Whitby (1878). 



White's Thrush Oreocichia varia (Pall.). 



A full account of the latest specimen appears in The Halifax 

 Naturalist for February, from the pen of Mr. A. Crabtree, 

 F. L.S., which is illustrated by the accompanying- block, kindly 

 lent by the Editor. 



PREHISTORIC REMAINS NEAR BRADFORD. 

 The inhabitants of Bradford are certainly to be congratulated 

 on the good work the Bradford Corporation has recently accom- 

 plished in connection with the preservation of the pre-historic 

 relics surrounding their city. The corporation, having acquired 



Naturalist, 



