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Great Titmouse (one or two pairs 
only seen). 
Titmouse 
were seen). 
Wren (very common). 
Pied Wagtail. 
Grey Wagtail. 
Yellow Wagtail (abundant). 
Meadow Pipit (abundant). 
Spotted Flycatcher (common around 
Arncliffe). 
Swallow (abundant). 
House Martin (common). 
Sand Martin (fairly common). 
Greenfinch (only heard once). 
Hawfinch. 
House Sparrow (common at Hawks- 
wick and Arncliffe, uncommon 
higher up the valley at Litton, 
Halton, etc. 
Chaffinch (common). 
Starling (fairly common). 
Magpie. 
Jackdaw (common). 
Blue 
(one or two pairs 
The Natural History of Littondale, Yorks. 
Carrion Crow. 
Rook. 
Swift (common). 
Tawny Owl (young heard calling in 
the woods). 
Common Buzzard. 
Sparrow Hawk. 
Kestrel (fairly common). 
Common Heron (fairly common). 
Wood Pigeon (fairly common). 
Stock Dove. 
Red Grouse. 
Pheasant (a few near Arncliffe). 
Partridge (very few seen). 
Waterhen. 
Golden Plover. 
Lapwing (in flocks now). 
Common Snipe (rather scarce). 
Common Sandpiper (apparently the 
bulk of this species had left 
the dale.) 
Curlew (common). 
Black-headed Gull (stray birds). 
Herring Gull (stray birds). 
In investigating the fauna of a district it is interesting to 
note what expected species do not occur, or are very rare, and 
Littondale gave plenty of scope for this class of investigation. 
Search as we would we could not discover a single Skylark! 
Neither could we detect the Corncrake, nor any of the Warblers 
with the exception of the Willow Warbler, which was plentiful. 
Not a single Bunting of any kind was noted, and with the ex- 
ceptions of the Chaffinch, Hawfinch, Greenfinch, and Sparrow, 
none of the finch family was seen. Titmice were not by any 
means so common, neither in numbers nor in species, as one 
would have expected. It would be useful if future observers in 
this dale would take note of the’ apparent absence, or rarity, of 
these otherwise common birds. 
Pisces.—The Trout was plentiful, and the Loach, Minnow, 
and River Bullhead were also noted in the Skirfare. 
In Reptilia and Amphibia, the only species seen was the 
Common Frog, and it was not by any means numerous. 
EntomoLocy.—Mr. G. T. Porritt writes :—But little wa 
attempted entomologically. Mr. J. Beanland found specimens 
of the local Coremta munitata on the high hills, and Mudaria 
mundana was plentiful on old walls. Prays curttsellus occurred 
among ash. As showing the extraordinary lateness of the 
Naturalist, 
