838 WAITE: VERTEBRATES OF THE WESTERN AINSTY. 
Turdus merula Linn. Blackbird. Resident and common. 
It breeds regularly throughout the district, but is much perse- 
cuted by the farmers on account of its fruit-eating propensities. 
Turdus torquatus Linn. Ring Ouzel. Decidedly rare; when 
seen, it is only during the spring and autumn migration. 
ev. J. W. Chaloner tells me that he has only seen this bird 
once at Wewion Kyme. Mr. John Harrison has met with it on 
two occasions at Wilstrop. 
Sone Rite cenanthe (Linn.). Wheatear. A regular visitant in 
all numbers during the spring and autumn migration, when it 
is seen only for a short time, generally about walls and stone-heaps. 
Pratincola rubetra (Linn.). Whinchat. A regular summer 
visitant. It is common, and breeds throughout the district 
wherever whins are to be found. 
Pratincola rubicola (Linn.). Stonechat. Rare, a few have been 
seen from time to time in different parts of the district, generally 
in spring, but Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke saw a pair at Linton, near 
Wetherby, on October roth, 1886 
Ruticilla phcenicurus (Linn.). Redstart. Locally known as 
‘Wrenny Red-tail.. A summer visitant, fairly common, breeds 
regularly in the district, but is somewhat local in this respect. 
Erithacus rubecula (Linn.). Redbreast. Resident ; partially 
migratory, very common in the district, throughout which it 
breeds regularly. 
Daulias luscinia (Linn.). Nightingale. The following are the 
only records which I have of this species :—One at Stockeld 
Park, near Wetherby. In 1846 one was seen at Wetherby 
Grange by the Rev. J. W. Chaloner, who tells me that there 
have been two occurrences at Newton Kyme—one in 1866 and 
another in 1886. In 1880 Mr. John Emmet wrote :—‘I am 
told that a pair built at the Vicarage, Thorp Arch, some years 
since, but the nest was taken.’ Mr. John Harrison writes :— 
‘A pair frequented Wilstrop for two years in succession, 1860 
and 1861, but the nest was not found.’ 
Sylvia cinerea Bechst. Whitethroat. Commonly called, as 
elsewhere, Peggy Whitethroat. Summer visitant, and very 
common, breeding in all suitable places throughout the district, 
frequently among nettles. 
Sylvia curruca (Linn.). Lesser Whitethroat. A regular 
summer visitant, but not nearly so common as 5S. cinerea 3 
breeds in many places in the district, usually much earlier than 
the Whitethroat. 
Naturalist, 
