lo6 CLAkKE AND NELSON: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



About Goole, Mr. Thomas Bunker informs me that it 

 has been repeatedly heard in the district; at Cowick in 1879, 

 and at Rawdifife in 1880 and 1881.— W.E.C 



Mr. Bunker informs me that the Nightingale appeared 

 again at Rawcliffe in 1888 and 1889 ; also at Hook in 1893 

 and 1894.— T.H.N. 



In Holderness, in the southern portion near the Humber 

 estuary, the Nightingale occurs annually, but in varying numbers. 

 The Rev. H. C. Casson (Field, June 21st, 1879) '^^'rites as 

 follows on the extension of the range of this species in the 

 neighbourhood of Patrington and tells us that 'Last Monday 

 night, June 9th, I sat on a gate listening to four Nightingales at 

 once, which sang against one another continuously during that 

 time ; and during a walk of a mile I heard three other Nightin- 

 gales singing, besides the four together. Two years ago a single 

 Nightingale was heard in the same lane, but none was noticed 

 last year.' Mr. Casson, in reply to my enquiries in 1881, 

 kindly communicated the following additional and interesting 

 information: 'On the 24th May, 1880, and again on the 27th 

 of the same month I heard (on each occasion) two Nightingales 

 singing in pretty much the same spot each evening. The even- 

 ings were both warm ones. On several other occasions I 

 listened for them but never heard them except on the nights 

 mentioned. However, I have often noticed, when I lived in 

 Cambridgeshire where Nightingales were very plentiful, that 

 when the wind was in a cold quarter I seldom heard their song, 

 and when I did so it was rather to be called a chirping and 

 twittering than a song. And here in Yorkshire, both last year 

 and this, when I have heard the song it has been on an excep- 

 tionally warm evening, for here we have seldom any wind but 

 an E. or N.E. from the first of April to the middle of June. I 

 am inclined to think, therefore, that the Nightingale may be 

 much more common in these parts than is usually supposed, 

 but that the evenings are rarely warm enough to induce them to 



Trans. Y. N. U., 1898 (pub. 1901). Series \^ 



