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Huddersfield, 1859) tells us that two of these birds were noticed 

 at the Grove, Dalton, in 1846. One commenced to sing in 

 Mollicar Wood, Huddersfield, on the 5th of May, 1875, ^i"'d 

 continued until June 5th (Varley, Nat. 1875, p. 52; Palmer, Zool. 

 1875, p. 4499). The late Mr. James Varley informed me that he 

 only knew of three occurrences in this district, one in Lockwood 

 and those at Grove and Mollicar Woods above mentioned. — 

 W.E.C. 



Mr. S. L. Mosley (Naturalist, Aug., 1889, p. 225) mentioned 

 that his daughter and he had heard a Nightingale singing near 

 Anston Stones, adding that they ' had heard one on a previous 

 visit, and were told that it is a regular visitor.' — T.H.N. 



Mr. J. H. Salter wrote me in 1879 that it 'appears 

 regularly within a few miles of Ackworth.' In the Rotherham 

 district Mr. F. W, Dickinson tells me that it occurs in all the 

 woods, and is far from uncommon in the delightful vicinity of 

 Roche Abbey, which is just on the fringe of the Coalfield, and 

 only a few miles from the Nottinghamshire border of the 

 county. 



Around Shefifield Mr. Allis reported in 1884 that it was 

 occasionally heard near that town, and Mr. Charles Dixon, in 

 1879, informed the writer that it was 'a very rare visitor,' and 

 that he had 'not known a bird of this species here for years.' — 



W.E.C. 



Mr. T- T- Baldwin Young, writing from Richmond Park, 

 Shefiield, on the 30th of December, 1900, states that 'Two or 

 three pairs usually nest every year near here, and I have little 

 doubt that there are other pairs in the same district. This 

 bird is extending its range northward.' — T.H.N. 



In the Halifax district it is said to have formerly visited 

 Elland Woods, while Mr. C. C. Hanson told me that in Ainley 

 Wood one was said to have occurred in 1845. 



It has not been recorded to my knowledge from elsewhere 

 on the Coalfield save in the columns of the daily press, which, 

 in matters of this kind, cannot be regarded as reliable. 



Trans. V.N.U., 1898 (pub. 1!)01). Series T; 



