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ON THE OCCURRENCE OF 

 EMBERIZA CIOIDES Brandt IN YORKSHIRE. 



W. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., Etc., 

 Nat. Hist. DeJ>t., Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 



It affords me much gratification to be able, through the kindness of 

 Mr. R. W. Chase, in whose fine collection the bird now is, to give the 

 desired — and it may be added most satisfactory — particulars con- 

 cerning the occurrence of this new European species in Yorkshire. 

 Mr. Chase writes me thus : — ' In June last, when visiting Bempton 

 Cliffs, I called upon Mr. Matthew Bailey at Flamborough, and from 

 amongst his birds I selected two — the one a Pied Sparrow, the other 

 a bird not known to me as British (I rather thought it a variety of 

 Emberiza schceniclus), but which Mr. Bailey assured me he had 

 stuffed from the flesh, and that it had been obtained near Flam- 

 borough Head. Later on he confirmed this statement by letter, 

 giving the date as November 1886, saying it was obtained by 

 a fisherman on the beach south of the Headland. I sent the bird to 

 Durham, and Canon Tristram kindly identified it as Emberiza cioides. 

 He communicated the occurrence, with the foregoing facts, at a 

 meeting of the Zoological Society, January 15 th, 1889, and at the 

 request of Dr. Sclater, it has again been sent to the Society. I may 

 add that Prof. Newton has also seen the bird.' 



AUTUMN AND WINTER NOTES FROM NOTTS. 



F. B. WHITLOCK, 

 A ttenborough. 



The open winter of 1888-9, though not marked by an abundance of 

 birds, has, however, produced a fair number of species. I extract 

 the following notes from my diary : — 



1888. September nth. — A Wood Sandpiper (Totctfius glareola) 

 was sent to me in the flesh, killed on the Trent below Nottingham. It 

 appears to be an adult bird. 16th. — Saw the last of the Common 

 Sandpipers {Tringoides hypoleucus), also the first (pair) Grey Wagtails 

 {Motacilla melanope). 



October 6th.— Saw a few Swallows {Hirundo rustica). 8th. — 

 First Redwings {Turdus iliacus). nth. — Surprised a Brent Goose 

 {Bernicla brenta) feeding in a shallow part of the Trent. 18th to 

 24th. — Saw one or two Tufted Ducks {Fuligula cristata), Redwings, 



April 1889. H 



