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FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



Rough-legged Buzzard and Bohemian Waxwings near 

 Hull. — During" the last few days a fine Roug-h-legg-ed Buzzard 

 and several Bohemian Waxwini,^s have been seen within the 

 boroug-h oi' Hull. — T. Shhppako, 2nd November 1903. 



Late Stay of Swifts near Bradford. — I noticed a Swift 

 flying about at Baildon Green, near Bradford, on ist October 

 1903. It was apparently an adult bird. No trace of the bird 

 was seen on passing the same place about the same time a day 

 or two afterwards. Mr. Alf. Walker informs me that he saw two 

 Swifts at Hawksworth, near Bradford, on i6th September, and 

 I saw over a dozen near Otley on 5lh September. — E. Harper, 

 Bradford. 



[The late stay of the Swift this year has been noticeable 

 throug'hout the country. — Eds. J 



Red = Spotted Bluethroat at Tees Mouth (Co. Durham). 

 — On 19th September a rush of small immigrants took place 

 at the Tees Mouth, the slag walls and sand hills being tenanted 

 by Gold Crests, Robins, Redstarts, Pied Flycatchers, Willow 

 Wrens, Chiflfchaffs, Whinchats, Wheatears, and Pipits in vary- 

 ing degrees of abundance. Mr. C. Braithwaite, of Seaton 

 Carew, when shooting at the Tees Mouth near the North Gare 

 Breakwater, noticed a bird unlike any of the above in one of the 

 holes, which flew into some long grass and was lost among the 

 tall growth. On the following day the bird was met with in 

 the same place, skulking- among the bent grass, and was shot. 

 It proved to be a young- male Red-Spotted Bluethroat {Cya7iecula 

 suecica), and therefore is, as far as I can ascertain, the first 

 authenticated instance of its occurrence in Durham. A Willow 

 Wren and ChiffchaflP, obtained on the sea wall during this rush, 

 belong to the small yellow backed and the large dark form 

 respectively. — C. Milburn, Middlesbroug-h. 



ARACHNID A. 

 Argyroneta aquatica near Hull. — Quite a larg-e and 

 thriving colony oi this interesting spider has been observed 

 in Ryde Street Brickpond, situated within a stone's throw of 

 the outskirts of the city of Hull. Those taken constructed 

 their curious nests under water, and bred quite freely in 

 captivity. — H. M. Foster, Hull. 



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