74 CLARKE : THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



habits have led him to act often as an amateur keeper, and had 

 made him very familiar with various birds and animals. Hence 

 the eggs, when shown to some metropolitan egg-authorities, 

 were pronounced not Redwing's, but Ring Ouzel's eggs. How- 

 ever, during the past spring a Redwing's nest and eggs, together 

 with the parent bird herself, have been obtained in Glaisdale, 

 another district (originally of the same parish to which the 

 Commondale mentioned above belongs) ; the person meeting 

 with them being a very competent ornithologist and experienced 

 egg-collector. The fact that the Redwing does occasionally 

 breed in North Yorkshire, and I think not so very unfrequently, 

 is an interesting one, and therefore not unworthy of record 

 here. ' 



Finally, Mr. James Backhouse, Junr.,in the Zoologist (1879, 

 pp. 460-1) speaks on its supposed nesting near York. ' Whilst 

 shooting on August 27th I killed a bird which, in the dim 

 evening light, looked like a Thrush, but on examining it next 

 day I found it was a young Redwing (moulting). The body 

 was a good deal shattered, but the head was left untouched 

 and showed the whitish line above the eye very well. The 

 colour under the wings was also very deep. Does not this 

 clearly prove that a pair of Redwings have bred in the 

 county . . . ? ' 



A buff variety with light grey markings and the red patch 

 of a paler shade was shot by Mr. Alwin S. Bell, near Scar- 

 borough, about 1855 (Zool., 1870, p. 2343). 



The earliest mention of this species as a Yorkshire bird 

 appears to be in 1808, in the appendix to Graves' History of 

 Cleveland. 



In Cleveland it is locally known as ' Swinepipe ' from its 

 note. 



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