84 CLARKE AND NELSON: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Local names — Hedge Sparrow ; Dunnock; Dicky Dunnock 

 (general); Cuddy (general among schoolboys); Billy or Billy 

 Hedge Sparrow (Doncaster); Hedge Creeper (Thirsk); Shuffle 

 Wings (Cleveland); it is also locally termed Hedge-Warbler or 

 Hedge-Chanter; and Cuddy-Whooper is a name we have heard 

 near Redcar. 



ACCENTOR COLLAPJS (Scopoli). 

 Alpine Accentor. 



An accidental visitant from central or southern Evirope. 



Like the Rock Thrush, this bird affects the mountainous 

 districts of central and southern Europe, where it is, however, 

 a resident and only to be considered migratory in so far as it 

 passes the summer at considerable elevations and descends into 

 the valleys for the winter. From some cause or another the 

 Alpine Accentor occasionally finds its way into western Europe, 

 and has on several occasions occurred in the British Isles, and 

 once in Yorkshire. 



The claim of this species to our attention as a Yorkshire 

 bird is in virtue of a single occurrence only, at Scarborough, 

 during the winter of 1862-3. This specimen now forms part of 

 the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, at Northrepps, Norwich, 

 where Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke had the pleasure of seeing it. 



It formerly had a place in Mr. W. W. Boulton's collection 

 at Beverley; and that gentleman communicated the following 

 account of it to the 'Zoologist' (1863, p. 8766), 'On the 22nd 

 of August, at Mr. Roberts', bird stuffer, Scarborough, I saw a 

 fine female specimen of the Alpine Accentor which had been 

 shot near Scarborough. Last winter (1862-3) ^ poor man offered 

 for sale to Mr. Roberts a string of larks and small birds he had 

 shot. Mr. R. bought them and found this bird amongst the 

 number. I purchased it and it is now in my collection.' 



Trans_ Y.N.U., 1898 (pub. 1901). Series R 



