FIELD NOTES. 
BIRDS. 
Bramble Finch, &c., near Halifax.—The bramble-finch 
has been in Luddenden Dean near Halifax for some time. It 
was first observed about June 1oth, and remained in the same 
neighbourhood in full song until July 1st, after which date it 
was not seen or heard again. As some shooting was heard in 
the wood, it is feared that someone shot it. The female, 
according to one observer, was also seen. 
On June 8th I found a water-hen’s nest, containing eggs, in 
a tree fully six feet above the level of the Aire near Bingley. — 
H. WATERWORTH, Halifax. 
Red Breasted Flycatcher in East Yorks.—On June 4th, 
1907, I heard the note of a bird quite unknown to me. It was 
singing a low warbling note of very little power. I saw the 
bird close to me, very low down in a thick hawthorn hedge 
skirting a beech plantation. Presently it flew up higher into 
the branches of the hedge, and was joined by another, evidently 
of the same species, for when the second bird joined the first 
the singing ceased and the male bird commenced flirting with 
the hen. The movements of the male were those of the Robin 
as often seen at pairing time: he raised and lowered his head 
and tail as if making most elaborate bows, and I feel certain 
the birds were nesting somewhere near. 
They were about the size of a Willow Warbler, and when 
seen were in a bad light, being in the hedge under the shade 
of the branches of large beech trees, but the colour of both 
was a uniform light brown, the striking marking of the male 
being a bold red patch under the throat, extending partly down 
the breast. The birds were under observation for six or seven 
minutes, and my sisiter, who was with me, noticed the red 
throat referred to above, and also the peculiar warbling note. 
The birds were, in my opinion, Red Breasted Flycatchers, 
and were seen at Thearne Hall, near Beverley. Mr. Haworth 
Booth informs me that he saw a male this spring at Hull Bank 
House about a mile-and-a-half, as the crow flies, from where I 
saw the pair. He saw the bird on May 2oth, and reported it 
in the /ze/d on the 25th.—Harotp R. Jackson, Grosvenor 
House, Hornsea. 
1907 August 1. 
