108 WAITE: VERTEBRATES OF THE WESTERN AINSTY. 
p- 5958; Graham, Nat., 1858, p. 291).’ Having examined these 
references, I find that Sir Wm. Milner states the bird was 
obtained at Misson in Yorkshire. This place, although on 
the border of the two counties, is in reality in Nottinghamshire, 
so that the bird must not only not be included in the present 
list, but must be removed from the Yorkshire list also. With 
regard to Graham’s note, Mr. Howard asst in the 4th 
edition of Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds,’ p. 481, writes :—‘. . . another 
example was stated by Graham of York hehe 1858, p. 291) 
without a particle of substantiating evidence, to have been 
obtained near Tadcaster.’ The figure and description given in 
Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds’ were taken from this specimen, which is 
now in the Leeds Museum. } 
Totanus calidris (Linn.). Redshank. A casual visitant. ‘ A pair 
bred at Wilstrop some years ago, but the female was taken by 
a Sparrow Hawk’ (Tennant, MS. 1880). Another pair bred in 
the same spot in 1884; they were possibly stragglers from 
Strensall Common near York, at which place this species 
breeds annually. 
Totanus canescens (Gmel.). Greenshank. Has occasionally 
been seen in the district. The Rev. J. W. Chaloner has one 
which he shot at Newton Kyme, and the late Wm. J. Milligan 
of Wetherby wrote:—‘ A Greenshank was brought to me on 
August 22nd (1879), shortly after it had been shot near here. 
It is a rare bird with us’ (Field, vol. liv, 1879, p. 374). 
Numenius arquata (Linn.). Curlew. This bird has occasionally 
occurred in the district, more frequently in winter, generally 
passing over. 
Sterna fluviatilis Naum. Common Tern. Not unfrequently 
seen during the floods in autumn. 
Rhodostethia rosea Macgill. Wedge-tailed Gull. Cuneate- 
tailed Gull. Ross’s Gull. The only English example 
of this very rare Gull was shot near Tadcaster by Mr. Thomas 
Robinson, of Saxton, near Aberford, on the 22nd December, 
1846 (W. M. E. Milner, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1847, p. 1694). It is also 
described as being killed by Horner, Lord Howden’s head 
keeper, in February, 1847, in a ploughed field near Milford- 
cum-Kirby [near Tadcaster]. (Charlesworth—quoting Henry 
Milner, Proc. Yorks. Phil. Soc., vol. i., 1847, p. 36). This 
specimen is now in the Leeds Museum, and is described by 
Mr. Howard Saunders as being in winter plumage (‘ Field, 
February, 1875, p. 196). 
Naturalist, 
