158 BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIRDS, 1886. 



John N. Dufty. Notts. 



Varieties of Common Birds [all near Tuxford ; an albino nestling Green 

 finch (Ligurinns chloris) at Moorhouse ; white Sand Martin {Cotile riparia); 

 white Sparrow (Passe? domesticus) ; pied Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus); white- 

 headed Ring-Ouzel ( Turdits torquatus) ; Wheatear (Saxicola a: nan the) the 

 colour of a Gull's back ; and an almost-white Pheasant chick (Phasianus 

 colchicus)]. Field, Oct. 23rd, 1886, p. 609. 



J. N. Dufty. Notts. 



Albino [Greenfinch (Ligurinus chloris), nestling, found at Moorhouse near 



Tuxford ; reported on by Robert Service]. Nat. World, Nov. 1886, iii. 217. 



J. J. Dunnington-Jefferson. York S.E. 



[Unusual number (22) of Magpies (Pica caudata) on the wing together, 

 Oct. 18th, 1886, near York]. Field, Oct. 30th, 1886, p. 653. 



Ed[itor of Zoologist]. York S.E. 



Rooks [Corvus frugilegits~\ nesting on Chimney-tops [and on house-tops at 

 Kingston-on-Hull in 1846]. Zool., Sep. 1886, x. 365. 



Ed[itor of Field]. Line. N. 



Gannet [Sula l>assana~\ inland [at Brigg, Lines., five in a turnip-field]. Field, 

 October 16th, 1886, p. 555. 



Eds., N.H.J. York S.W. 



Ackworth Reports [of curious nestings of Troglodytes parvulus, Erithacus 



rnbecitla, and Muscicapa grisola], Nat. Hist. Journ., Nov. 15th, 1886, x. 167. 



Edwd. Elmhirst. Line. N. 



The Hen Harrier [Circus cyancus] in Lincolnshire sixty years ago 

 [nesting in great numbers on the commons in the parish of Middle Rasen 

 about 1824-1825; full and detailed particulars given; provincially named 

 ' gorse-hawk '; other birds mentioned as of 1824 and 1825 are Phasianus, 

 Perdix cinerea, Scolof>ax rusticola, Gallinago ca'lestis, Crex pratensis, 

 Querquedula crecca, ' l'lovers,' Corvus comix, Pica caudata, Garrulus 

 glandarius, Milvus ictinus, ' Buzzards,' Accipiter nisus, Falco subbutco, 

 F. cesalon, and Tinnunciiius alaudarius]. Field, Nov. 27th, 1886, p. 800. 



John Km met. York Mid W. 



Curious death of a Swift [(Cypselus apus) ; killed against telegraph wire; 

 near Boston Spa?]. Nat., Aug. 1885, p. 299. 



John Emmet. York Mid W. 



Hawfinch [Coccothraustcs vulgaris] and Water Rail [Rallits aquaticus] near 



Boston Spa, Yorkshire [a hen of the former caught at Healaugh, May nth, 



1885 ; latter bred at Boston Spa in 1S84 and 1885]. Nat., Aug. 1885, p. 299. 



John' Emmet. York N.E. and Mid W., Cumbd., Westmd. 



Swallows and the late Storm [of May 1886 ; great destruction of Hirundo, 

 Chelidon, Cotile, and Cypselus at Malton, Newton Kyme, Bassenthwaite, 

 Appleby, Windermere, Mexborough, etc.]. Nat., July 1886, p. 214. 



John Emmet. York Mid W. 



The Hawfinch [Coccothraustcs vulgaris] Nesting at Boston Spa [in 1886]. 



Nat., Sep. 1886, p. 277. 



Thomas Ford. Lines. 



Late Stay of Swifts [(Cypselus apus), at Caistor, Lines., .Sep. 10th, 1886; 

 usually all gone by end of August ; only once seen previously after Sep. 1st]. 

 Field,' Sep. 18th, 1886, p. 441. 



Riley Fortune. Northumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire. 



Abnormal Nesting Sites [Long-tailed Tit (Acredula rosea) in deserted 



squirrel's-drey, Robin (Erithacus rubecula) in a workman's breakfast-can ; 



Naturalist, 



