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Zfio'ogy 



OCT 11 1945 



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Mr. Thomas AUis in his report (1844) mentions that a female 

 was shot at Easingwold, and sent to Mr. Chapman of York for 

 preservation, with the message that if it was a Cuckoo he was to 

 stuff it for the person who shot it, but that if it was not a Cuckoo 

 he might keep it. The Rev. F. O. Morris informed Mr. Alhs 

 that a female was shot at Rossington near Doncaster, no date 

 being given. 



A female in mature plumage was shot from a ship entering 

 the mouth of the Humber in November 1864, as it hovered over 

 the vessel. This specimen came into the possession of Mr. W. 

 W. Boulton, of Beverley, in the flesh, and is recorded by that 

 gentleman in the Zoologist (1865, p. 9415). 



Mr. J. E. Harting in his Handbook of British Birds (p. 86) 

 mentions that a mature male was shot at Bridlington on the 6th of 

 July 1865; remarking that it had been hitherto unrecorded. 



In the collection of Mr. T. Machin of Bridlington there is a 

 mature male, shot at Bempton by Mr. R. Morris on the i8th of 

 June 1869 (Cordeaux, Birds of the Humber District). 



Mr. William Lister of Glaisdale mentions that one was shot 

 at Egton Bridge near Whitby, by the keeper of Mr. Smith, in 

 1876 or 1877. 



Mr. A. Clapham of Scarborough informs me that an adult 

 in his collection was trapped by Lord Londesborough's keeper 

 in the vicinity of Hackness, and that the keeper had another that 

 was taken near Scarborough. 



Three specimens have been preserved by Mr. A. Roberts, of 

 Scarborough ; these afterwards passed into the collections of Mr. 

 A. Clapham, Mr. E. Tindall, and Mr. Young, gamekeeper. Mr. 

 Roberts informs me that all these birds had been feeding on the 

 large common dew-worms. Two of these last mentioned birds 

 are, no doubt, those recorded by Mr. Clapham. 



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