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We will now proceed to discuss the distribution of the 

 Nightingale in the county in detail, commencing with the 

 localities on the Yorkshire Coalfield. In the Barnsley district, 

 Mr. AUis informs us, in his report already quoted, that a 

 few pairs are met with every year ; and Mr. Thomas Lister, of 

 Barnsley, writes : ' I scarcely remember a year since 1842 that I 

 have not heard one or two pairs of Nightingales. In the valleys 

 of Dearne and Dove, in Cliff Wood, Day House, and Keresforth 

 Woods — all three within a mile of Barnsley — they have been 

 heard in various years.' He also mentions Oscar AVood, 

 Cobcar Wood, Kitroyd, Jump, Ethersley Wood, Needle Eye 

 Wood, Dodworth Bottom, Sunny Bank, New Hall, Dark Lane 

 and Tivy Dale at Cawthorne, Norroyd and Thornhill, as 

 localities in the neighbourhood, where he has noted the bird 

 from time to time. 



In the neighbourhood of Wakefield, Neville Wood 

 mentions it (NaturaUst, 1838, p. 437) on the authority of Mr. 

 Charles Waterton, as an annual visitor to Walton Hall, a state- 

 ment that has been repeated by various writers to the present 

 date. Mr. William Talbot, in his ' Birds of Wakefield,' tells us he 

 first made its acquaintance in 1841 at Burnt Wood, about ten 

 miles from Wakefield; and he noted it in 1870 at Coxley 

 Valley; in 187 1 at New Park Spring, Great Houghton, where 

 they were nesting; in May 1873 a P^"" made their appearance 

 at Haw Park, but unfortunately their career was cut short ; in 

 1874 two others visited this neighbourhood, and in May 1875 

 he heard three singing within eight miles of Wakefield. About 

 Lofthouse, Mr. George Roberts informed me that one was 

 heard about the year 1836, and again in 1869, none occurring 

 to his knowledge between these dates. In 1884 one appeared 



at Stanley. 



Regarding the Leeds district, Mr. B. R. Morris recorded 



in Morris' Naturalist (185 1, i. 46) the occurrence of a specimen 



at Killingbeck, near Leeds, early in May, 1849, which was at 



that tiiTie in the possession of Mr. Thomas Russell, of York 



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