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account of this bird. It was heard singing by him on the 

 nights of the loth and nth of May, near OHver's Mount. — 

 W.E.C. 



A later record for this district is that obligingly given to me 

 by Mr. ^V. Gyngell, of Scarborough, who says ( 1 9th of March, 

 1 901) he was first informed by Mr. H. Head, on May the 8th, 

 1896, that he had heard what he believed to be a Nightingale in 

 Raincliffe Wood. Mr. Gyngell himself heard it on the 13th, 

 near Throxenby Mere; and it was also seen and heard by Mr. 

 ^^^ J. Clarke up to the 29th of the month, on which day it was 

 reported to have been shot (see also ^^^ J. Clarke, ZooL, 1896, 

 P- 304)- 



The late Mr. John Cordeaux mentions (Zool., 1897, p. 332, 

 and Naturalist, 1897, p. 240), that he saw a Nightingale, in the 

 second week of June, 1897, within two miles of Filey, in a 

 thicket near the roadside, with a caterpillar in its beak, and, 

 within a few feet, a bird of the year.— T.H.N. 



Passing now to the southern portion of central Yorkshire, 

 Pennant (Brit. Zool, ist edit., 1766, p. 100) tells us in one 

 of the earliest Yorkshire notices of this species that 'It is not 

 found in North Wales, or in any of the English Counties north 

 of it, except Yorkshire, where they are met with in great plenty 

 about Doncaster.' Miller, in his History of Doncaster (1804), 

 remarks that this 'most delightful songster visits us about the 

 middle of May.' Allis and others down to the present time 

 mention it as common in Edlington and other woods, and in 

 the neighbourhood north of this town the editor of Neville 

 Wood's Naturalist (1838, p. 437) says: 'we have ourselves heard 

 it near Campsall, and in a wood adjoining Owston Hall.' . . . 

 Wm. H. Rudston Read, Esq., of Frickley Hall, . . informs 

 us that several of these nocturnal choristers visit Hooton Pagnall 

 Common.' — W.E.C. 



Mr. H. H. Corbett mentions a Nightingale singing in 

 Regent Square, Doncaster (NaturaHst, 1899, p. 292). — T.H.N. 



