290 Field Notes. 



TroUius europaeus in Div. II. S. W. Cumberland. — 



On Whit Monday, May 27th, Miss Isabel Dobson gathered 

 fine blooms of TroUius europaeus which was found growing 

 abundantly on the banks of Black Beck where the footpath 

 between Swinside and Windy Slack crosses the stream by a 

 narrow wooden bridge. — John Dobson, Ulverston. 



The Kite in Yorkshire in 1682. — The following is taken 

 from the notes made by Oliver Heywood, the celebrated Non- 

 conformist preacher. He was then at Northowram : — ' Young 

 turkey catched, Object 13. — My wife had orded an hen to sit 

 on turkey eggs, hatcht them, all came to naught except two, 

 those two were with the hen in the croft feeding, on Saturday 

 forenoon, Aug. 5, 1682, a glead came furiously to catch them, 

 the hen fought with the glead a considerable time, but the 

 glead catcht one of them, and went away with it, chirping in 

 his mouth, some young men at R.S. seeing the sharp contest, 

 and the glead carrying the chicken, ran after him, he light 

 in a field near to feed on his prey, but, seeing them, took it 

 up and fled away with it, so they lost it, the other Chicken or 

 young Turkey, being affrighted, hid itself under shrubs, which, 

 in a little time they found, the hen going with it was still 

 erecting her head waiting for the glead, it came for the other, 

 she got under a stone in the court, the chicken under her, sate 

 close, secur'd it, and still is exceedingly watchful.' — Oliver 

 Heywood's Diaries, 1630-1702. Ed. Horsfall Turner, Vol. IV., 

 p. 44. The capitals and commas are as in the volume. — S. L. 

 Petty. 



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