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Road, Leeds. Mr. W. H. Hay informed me, in October, 1879, 

 that he heard a Nightingale sing in Mosley Wood, Horsforth, 

 some ten or twelve years before; it was shot by the keeper a short 

 time after. Mr. W. C. Horsfall, of Horsforth, informed Mr. G. 

 Roberts, of Lofthouse, in 1866, that 'The Nightingale visits us, 

 but only at intervals ; I know of only four instances of its having 

 done so in fifteen years.' In the 'Zoologist' (1879, p. 413) Mr. 

 Joseph Lucas wrote as follows : ' I venture to record two 

 localities in which I have seen these birds — Esholt Woods, in 

 Airedale, in the summer of 1868, and on May 8th, in Jonas 

 Wood, near Farnley Hall, ^^'harfedale.' In the same periodical 

 (Zool. 1869, pp. 1 800-1) Mr. Geo. Roberts, of Lofthouse, tells 

 us that 'on the 13th of May one commenced singing in a small 

 wood called Bushy Cliff, situate about five miles south-east of 

 Leeds . . and began to sing each evening about half-past 

 ten and continued in song till four in the morning. I, along 

 with several others, walked about in the adjacent meadows most 

 of the nights of the 15 th and i6th Ustening to it. ... I 

 was somewhat surprised at its tameness: on the third evening 

 many boys and young men from villages round about assembled 

 and created some uproar without, however, disturbing it from its 

 perch, and the game-watchers got within a few yards of it. Early 

 in the morning of the 17th, four days after its appearance, it was 

 captured with limed twigs by two Leeds bird fanciers: a few 

 meal-worms were thrown down among the twigs, and in less 

 than five minutes after the bait was laid the bird was secured.' 



At Shipley, near Bradford, in 1850, Mr. Samuel Roberts, 

 in Morris' Naturalist (1851, p. 165) says he heard about one 

 singing last season in a wood about one mile from Shipley. It is 

 said to have occurred at 'Apperley Bridge' (L. C. Miall, Guide to 

 British Birds in the Leeds Museum). 



In the Huddersfield district AUis (1844) quoted Cinderfield 

 Dyke Wood in Bradley as a locality for it. Mr. Peter Inchbald, 

 in his Huddersfield Catalogue (Hobkirk's Hist, and Nat. Hist, of 



