104 CLARKE AND NELSON : THE BtRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Mr. L. H. West informed me (8th of March, 1901) that the 

 Nightingale had nested near Brough for four years previous to 

 1900. The nest was found on two occasions, and Mr. West 

 shewed me an egg which had been taken. 



At North Cave, Dr. Cameron, writing to the Rev. W. M. 

 TomUnson, on the 21st of March, 1901, says that 'the Night- 

 ingale appeared in 1896, and in 1897 was heard on the i6th of 

 April, and the young were seen on the 2nd of June, in a large bush 

 near the ground. In 1898 it was again heard, on April the 29th.' 

 At South Cave, as Mr. F. Boyes states, 'a Nightingale was 

 heard singing in the Vicarage grounds ' (Field, 25th May, 1889). 

 —T.H.N. 



The bird is only an irregular visitant to the eastern part of 

 central Yorkshire, and I am only acquainted with the following 

 instances : — According to Mr. George Roberts one was heard at 

 Castle Howard on the 13th of May, 1875, ^^''^ at Stillingfleet 

 about the same date. The Rev. F. O. Morris (Morris' Nat., 

 185 1, p. 216) says he 'plainly heard it, 'ni fallor,' about a mile 

 south of Malton, namely seventeea miles north-east of York. It 

 was about eight years ago, when I was walking home one moon- 

 light night' There is most satisfactory evidence of its occurrence 

 at Scarborough, the most northern record, as we have stated, for 

 Britain.* Mr. William Robinson, of West Bank, Scarborough, 

 wrote as follows in the 'Naturalist' (June, 1882, p. 185): 'It will 

 interest ornithologists in Yorkshire to hear that we really have 

 the Nightingale at Scarborough this year. On the loth instant 

 I listened to its unmistakable "jug, jug," and piping and other 

 liquid notes, for half-an-hour between 11 p.m. and midnight. I 

 lived, many years ago, in Surrey, and became very familiar with 

 these notes, so can speak with confidence as to its not being a 

 "peggy" this time.' I had the pleasure of making Mr. Robinson's 

 acquaintance at the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union meeting at 

 Scarborough in the following July, and heard from him an 



* See, however, Cleveland record, ante. — T.H.N. 



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