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In the extreme north of Holderness, at the foot ahnost of 

 the Wolds, a pair nested at Littlethorpe, in 1876, in a plantation 

 on the farm of Mr. W, F. Foster, and not one hundred yards 

 from his house. Tlie nest was taken on the 26th of May, and 

 an egg kindly sent to the writer for his inspection. The birds 

 built a second time in the same wood, but this nest was unfor- 

 tunately destroyed The male used to sing in Mr. Foster's 

 garden continually and was both seen and heard by him and his 

 friends.— W.E.C. 



Mr, Foster's son afterwards lived at High Caythorpe, near 

 Bridlington, and he informs me that he found a Nightingale's 

 nest in the garden hedge there, in 1887. — T.H.N. 



There is no satisfactory evidence regarding the occur- 

 rence of the Nightingale in north-west Yorkshire, but the 

 following references to it for the district may be quoted as 

 being on record. 'The Nightingale is a very rare visitor in 

 Wharfedale, for I have constantly asked this question. A wood- 

 man told me that he once heard one when working in Grassing- 

 ton Wood, it was towards evening, and many years since.' — (F. 

 Montagu, Gleanings in Craven, 1838, p. 57). From Whitaker's 

 Craven (2nd ed., 181 2, footnote, p. 491) I transcribe the 

 following passage which is perhaps worthy of quotation here: 

 'As a trait of old ornithology, I must inform the reader, that 

 Craven had formerly two very different birds, long since extinct, 

 the Eagle and the Nightingale. The existence of the first . . 

 is proved by ... ; that of the latter, in Ribblesdale, by 

 Nichtgaleriding, the name of a place in the parish of Bolton, 

 mentioned in the Coucher Book of Sallay.' — W.E.C, 1887. 



The Nightingale has, within recent years, been reported at 

 'Wellbeck Wath in Yorkshire' (J. C. Walter, Naturahst, 1899, 

 p. 279).— T.H.N. 



