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Waterhen (Gallmula chloropus) in trees, once in fir-tree— all in Northumber- 

 land ; Wren (Troglodytes vulgaris) in a lantern, Westmorland; and in 

 Yorkshire a Wheatear (Saxicola a-nant/ie) built only two or three feet below 

 the nest of a Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)]. Field, May 24th, 1886, p. 123. 



R. Fortune. York N.W. 



Swallow [House Martin — Chelidon urbicd\ 's Nest on the Face of a Clock 



[at Sedbergh Station, where they have built for some years]. Field, July 10th, 

 1886, p. 74. 



Riley Fortune. York Mid W., Durham. 



Curious Nests of a Spotted Flycatcher [Muscicapa grisola] and Missel 

 Thrush [( Turdus viscivorus) : the first, a nest made of bookbinder's paper- 

 cuttings, at Harrogate ; the second of sheep's wool, on the edge of Muggles- 

 wick Moor, co. Durham]. Field, Aug. 14th, 1886, p. 274. 



Riley Fortune. York Mid W. and N.E., Cheviotland. 



The Turtle Dove [Turtur communis] in Yorkshire [and Northumberland; 

 at Weeton near Harrogate, near Guisborough, nesting near Alnwick, and 

 seen at Chathill]. Nat., Nov. 1886, p. 342. 



W. W. Fowler. Line. N. 



Thick-knee [CEdicnemus scolopax] and Temminck's Stint [Tringa tem- 

 miuckii] in Lincolnshire [at Gainsborough and Lincoln respectively]. Nat., 

 Sep. 1884, p. 32. 



H. E. Fox. Cheviotland. 



Destruction of Bird-life at the Fame Islands [deprecatory of the Fame 

 Islands Association and its action]. Nat., Dec. 1884, p. III. 



Samuel C. Fox. Notts. 



Egyptian Nightjar [notice of the stone put up where the Mansfield example 

 of Caprimulgus cegyptiacus was shot]. Nat. World, June 1886, iii. 117. 



RAi.ru Payne-Gallwey. York Mid W. 



Former Occurrence of Black Game [ Tetrao tetrix] on the Blubberhouses 

 Moors [extract from the Game-book for 1798, showing that it occurred in 

 the boyhood of the then keeper]. Nat., Nov. 1885, p. 364. 



Ralph P. Gallwey. York N.E. 



Wigeon [Mareca peuelope] Nesting [in confinement] in Yorkshire [at 

 'I hirkleby Park, Thirsk, four pairs of pinioned birds]. Field, July 31st, 1886, 

 p. 197 ; Zool., Oct. 1886, x. 416. 



R. P. Gallwey. Not Line. S. 



Duck Decoys [the one (Crowland) mentioned by Dr. Parsons is not in 

 Lincolnshire, but in Northamptonshire]. Nat., Nov. 1886, p. 340. 



Westmld., Derbysh., Lane. S., Line. N. and S., 

 Ralph Payne-Gallwey. Notts., York N.W., N.E., and S.E. 



The Book of Duck Decoys : their Construction, Management, and History 

 [a complete history of Decoys and Decoying, with full instructions in the 

 craft and for the construction of the Decoy ; a concise history of all known 

 decoys, with many interesting particulars of their careers, is furnished, 

 arranged under counties]. London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 

 MDCCCLXXXVI. [quarto (small), pp. xx. 214, 32 illustrations]. Reviewed by 

 W. E. Clarke in Nat., Sep. 1886, pp. 280-281 [the list of north-country 

 decoys extracted]. 



Leonard Gaunt. York S.E. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Pocklington [24th June, 1885 : 

 Ruticilla, Pratincola rubetra, Phylloscopus rufus, P. trochilus, P. sibilatnx, 

 Sylvia ciuci\a, Acrocephalus pliragmitis, Muscicapa grisola, Ant/ius trivialis, 

 A. pratensis, Hirundo, Chelidon. Cypsclus, Crex, Erithacus, Tu/dus visci- 

 vorus, T. music us, P. mcrula, Troglodytes^ I 'at us major, P. cccruleus, 



May 1S80. 



