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several struck the lantern; again on the 27th of April 1883 

 one was killed, and on the 7th of May of the same season four 

 more were immolated. 



Mr. Boyes of Beverley describes in the Zoologist (1879, 

 p. 256) a variety obtained in Holderness in which the markings 

 are normal but the general colour a ' rusty-buff or yellowish 

 sandy hue throughout.' White specimens have been obtained 

 near York, and ^particoloured' black and white ones near Ponte- 

 fract in 1846. 



Probably the earliest mention of the Thrush as a Yorkshire 

 bird, with which the writer is acquainted, is made by Marma- 

 duke Tunstall, F.R.S., a Yorkshireman and an ornithologist of 

 repute, who resided at Wycliffe in the North Riding, in the last 

 century (1743 — 1790), who mentions this species as ' singing in 

 the north in December.' * 



TUEDUS ILIACUS L, 

 The Redwing. 



A common winter visitant. 



'Frequent in winter.' — Thomas Allis, 1844. 

 Though there are not a few records of parties of Redwings 

 arriving in the county during the latter days of September, the 

 middle of the following month must be regarded as the usual 

 date for its advent, while many even appear later in October 

 and in November along with the Fieldfares. After their arrival 

 they become generally distributed and common over the county 

 throughout the winter, save in very severe seasons, when they 



* Tunstall's Notes, to which we shall often have occasion to refer, con- 

 sisted of remarks on Dr. Latham's ' Synopsis of Birds,' apparently addressed 

 to Latham soon after the publication of his earlier volume about the year 

 1783) with additions in 1784. The original MS. came into the hands of 

 Geo. Townshend Fox, who reproduced it in his ' Synopsis of the Newcastle 

 Museum,' published in 1823. 



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