6 CLARKE : THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



to give particulars of all the occtrrrences which have come under 

 my notice. 



Miller in his History of Doncaster (1804) mentions the 

 Osprey as occurring in that neighbourhood. 



In 1823 it was recorded as frequenting the little mountain tarn 

 known as Semerwater, in Wensleydale, on the authority of Mr. 

 Fothergill, surgeon, of Askrigg (Whitaker's Richmondshire, 

 p. 416). 



Mr. Leyland of Halifax (1828) had seen two specimens, one 

 from Luddenden and one from Hebden Bridge. 



About 1837 one alighted on the rigging of a vessel off Flam- 

 borough Head and was captured. This specimen was presented 

 to the museum at Scarborough by Mr. E. Tindall. In the same 

 year one was observed near Hackness and another shot 

 near Scarborough. These occurrences were communicated to 

 Neville Wood's Naturalist (1837, p. 329 & 489) by Mr. P. Hawk- 

 ridge of Scarborough. 



Mr. Denny of Leeds in 1840 mentioned a specimen at 

 Farnley in 1833 and another at Stainland Dean near Halifax. 



Mr. John Heppenstall of Sheffield recorded in the Zoologist 

 (1843, p. 14 & 247) three specimens as having occurred there 

 prior to tha t date. 



In May 1843 one visited the river Swale at Catterick, and 

 after remaining in that neighbourhood for a month, was at last 

 shot on the 20th of June; this was recorded in the Zoologist 

 (1844, p. 443) by Mr. Mark Booth, with the remark that another 

 had been seen in the same locality five years before. 



Dr. Farrar (1844) mentioned that he had met with four 

 specimens : — A female at Water Fryston near Pontefract ; another 

 female at Stainborough Park, near Barnsley; a male at Wors- 

 borough Reservoir ; and a female on Burnsall Moor, near Bolton 

 Abbey, in April 1844, whose stomach was gorge'd with the remains 

 of a Red Grouse. 



One in the collection of Mr. C. C. Oxley was shot at Marske in 

 Cleveland, as recorded in the Zoologist (1845, p. 1135) by Mr. M. 

 Booth. Mr. Oxley informs me that he has another specimen 

 obtained near Redcar. 



Trans, Y. N, U . 1879. Series B 



