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THE BIRDS OF NORTH=WEST LINDSEY.* 



MAX PEACOCK, 

 Cadnty. Lincolnshire. 



Yellow-Wagtail. Motacillu Raii Bonaparte. Is fairly 

 common, and breeds in meadows, corn fields, &c. 



Tree-Pipit. Anthus Irivialis Linn. Visits us each season, 

 but I have only found one nest, i6th July 1886. It is rare at 

 S. Kelsey. 



Meadow-Pipit. Anthus pratensisWnn. Comes to us every 

 spring-. It nests in pasture and meadow fields with us. 



Rock-Pipit. Anthns obscunis Latham. Is a very rare bird 

 so far inland. I have seen it on the beck at Yaddlethorpe 

 gravel pits after rough weather in winter. 



Golden-Oriole. Oriolus galbula Linn. I have never seen 

 this species. The Eastern Woodlands have ' during the last 

 thirty years undoubtedly had breeding pairs,' as Mr. R. N. 

 Sutton-Nelthorpe has told us. Mrs. F. M. Burton saw one bird 

 at Laughton in 1899, which was confirmed by her son's record 

 the following season. (See ' Naturalist' 1900, p. 368.) 



Great Grev-Shrike. Lauius excubilor Linn. Is very rare. 

 I shot a pair on Butterwick Common 27th November 1886. 

 One bird was feeding on a Jack-Snipe. Sir Charles J. A. 

 Anderson records one for Lea shortly before 1847. 



Red-backed Shrike. Luniiis colliirio Linn. I have never 

 seen or heard of it. Mr. Cordeaux said he had proof of its 

 nesting at Hibaldstow and Raventhorpe. 



Waxwing. Ampelis garruhis Linn. Visits the woods 

 occasionally. A pair was shot at Kirton-Lindsey in 1837, and 

 seen in the flesh by the late Rev. W. T. Humphrey. I had a 

 pair shot at Holme Hall, January 1889, by Mr. W. Mumby, 

 bailiff to Mr. J. Cliff. They are in the Lincoln Museum now. 

 'Occurs occasionally in hard winters in fir woods near Claxb}',* 

 Mr. Young says. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Muscicapci grisola Linn. Thinly 

 distributed over the whole district annually. It was much 

 commoner from 1873 to 1876 than in the years before or since. 



Pied Flycatcher. Muscicapa utricapilla Linn. Is a rare 

 visitor. It nested at Scavvby in 1871, and at Normanby in 

 1896. In a Pyracanthus on the front of West Rasen Rectory in 

 1891. Has nested near Gainsborough too, Mr. F. M. Burton 

 says. Was observed at S. Kclsi-y in 1S74. 



* .See ' Natiiialist ' i<)oj, pp. H)7-jo4 I'oi- fust inst.ilnuMit. 



Naturalist, 



