170 BIBLIOGRAPHY: BIRDS, 1886. 



Robert Service. Cumberland. 



Disappearance of the Chough {Pyrrhocorax graculus, L.) from the Stewartry 

 of Kirkcudbright [with a brief reference to its imminent extinction in Cum- 

 berland also]. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, New Series, vol. i [for 

 1884-85, pub. 1886], pp. 1 17-122. 



Henry Sidney. York N.E. 



A Tame Woodcock [{Scolopax rusticola) at Ingleby near Northallerton ; one 

 visited a cottage to pick up food daily during the late snow-storm]. Field, 

 April 3rd, 1886, p. 428. 



P. L. Simmonds. Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire. 



The Animal Food Resources of Different Nations, with mention of some 

 of the Special Dainties of Various People derived from the Animal Kingdom. 

 ['The knot {Tringa canutus) . . . come to market chiefly from Lincoln- 

 shire' (p. 178). 'The number of eggs of the gulls — herring gull {Lams 

 argentatus, L. marinus, L. canus, etc., — sent to shore from the Fern Islands, 

 ... for culinary purposes, is said to be prodigious ' (p. 199). Reference in 

 detail made to the taking of eggs of Guillemots {Uria troile and U. grylle) 

 and Razor-bills (Alca torda) at Flamborough (p. 199).] London: E. and 

 F. N. Spon . . . 1885 [8vo, cloth, pp. 461]. 



M. M. Simpson. Derbyshire, Lane. S., York S.W., Cheshire. 



A Sportsman of the Last Century [being a few extracts from an ' Account 

 of Game ' shot by Sir Ashton Lever, of Alkrington Hall, Lancashire, from 

 1751 to 1755; the localities mentioned are Bleak Stone Edge towards Booth 

 Deen ; Mottram, on the Derbyshire side ; Knutsford in Outerton, Alkrington, 

 Tonge, Foxdenton, Withington, Birch, and Prestwick Woods ; the birds are 

 Lagopus scoticus, Caprimulgus, ' Sandpipes,' Vanellus, Perdix, ' Rail,' 

 Limnocryptes gallinula, and Scolopax rusticola]. Land and Water, March 

 6th, 1886, p. 236. 



H. H. Slater. Cheviotland. 



A Winter Visit to the Fame Islands [when Phalacrocorax carbo, Somateria 



mollissima, Sula bassana, Clangula glaucion, Anas boschas, Tringa striata, 



Strepsilas interpres, Tringa alpina, Totanus calidris, Lomvia troile, and 



Podiceps griseigena were noted]. Nat., Nov. 1884, pp. 89-91. 



Henry H. Slater. York S.E. 



Occurrence of the Barred Warbler {Sylvia A'isoria) on the Coast of 



Holderness [a young female, taken 28th Aug., 1884; the first Yorkshire 

 (second British) example]. Nat., Nov. 1884, p. 91. 



Thomas Southwell. York N.W. 



Whiskered Tern [Hydrochelidon hybrida) in Yorkshire [one, shot 1842, on 

 the Swale at Hornby Castle ; addition to Yorkshire list ; history of specimen 

 given]. Nat., Dec. 1885, p. 393. 



Thomas Stephenson. York N.E. 



Notes from Whitby [on Tachybaptes flnviatilis, Lams leitcoptems, L. glancus, 

 Fulica atra, and Clangula glaucion]. Nat., April 1885, p. 201. 



Thomas Stephenson. York N.E. 



Bird-notes from Whitby [Jan. to May 1886 ; Totanus calidris, Larus ridi- 

 bundus, Rallus aquaticus, Aluscicapa atricapilla, M. grisola, and Turtur 

 communis noted]. Nat., Sep. 1886, p. 277. 



H. J. Stobart. York N.E. 



Late Stay of Swifts [{Cypsclus apus) ; one seen flying about Saltburn-by-the- 

 Sea all day on Sep. 12th, 1886, amongst a lot of Chelidon urbica]. Field, 

 Sep. 1 8th, 1886, p. 441. 



W. Storey. York Mid W. 



Woodcock [Scolopax rusticola] Breeding in Nidderdale [near Pateley 

 Bridge, July 1884; particulars given]. Nat., Sep. 1884, p. 32. 



Naturalist, 



