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are also many Pipistrelles—but I was unable to secure specimens 
except on one occasion, on 27th June, when I got a Whiskered 
Bat, and this may have been the species. At Hornsea I also 
noticed several medium-sized bats on the wing which I felt 
convinced belonged to a sixth species, but they flew out of 
reach of my wand, and I could not identify them. From about 
the end of June a very pale-coloured bat was seen between 
Wassand and the East Lodge, but it could not be caught. In 
certain lights, in the dusk, and against the dark foliage of the 
trees, it appeared almost buff. Apparently there was only the 
single individual, and as it kept company with Pipistrelles I 
set it down as a pale variety of that species. 
With regard to future watching I should like to add that 
in John Taylor, the gamekeeper at Wassand, the birds on the 
Mere have the most efficient protector that your Society has 
ever employed, and this, of course, throughout the year, not 
for the nesting season only. He has been on the place 
thirty-two years, and knows birds well, and takes a keen and 
kindly interest in them. Unlike many of his brothers in the 
profession, he never shoots a vara avis, but, on the contrary, 
takes a lively interest in any that appear, and in their pro- 
tection, and will not tolerate their being interfered with by 
anyone under his control. 
I should also like to say that by placing his boats at my 
unreserved disposal, and by a number of similar thoughtful 
attentions, Captain Constable added much to the pleasure and 
usefulness of my sojourn at his gates, thereby placing me, and 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, still further in his debt. 
From Taylor, too, and indeed from everybody with whom 
I came in contact, I experienced nothing but kindness, and 
a desire to further in every possible way my own whims and 
the work the Union has at heart, attentions which rendered 
my stay at Wassand an unmixed pleasure, or what should have 
been so had the weather been only just a little more propitious. 
With regard to birds I have thought it advisable to 
include all the species seen. Where no entry occurs it may 
be taken that the species was not noticed by me. 
MissEL THRUSH.—Breeds numerously, and a nest of 
fledged young in the Hall grounds on 30th April may be 
noted as rather unusually early. 
SonGc THRUSH, abundant. 
FIELDFARE.—A party of six at Wassand on 27th April— 
a very cold evening; the last seen. 
BLACKBIRD.—1 wo or three partially pied birds were noticed 
from time to time round Wassand. A cock, with a considerable 
amount of white on his head, and one or two white patches 
in one wing, bred near the ‘stick heap’ at the back of the 
Naturalist, 
