YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT LECKBY CARR. 237 
The Sectional Reports were next presented, and the following 
accounts have since been supplied :— 
The Vertebrate Zoology Section was officially represented on the 
field by one of its Hon. Secretaries, Mr. Riley Fortune, 
F.Z.S. (by whom the following report is furnished); arid among 
others who attended were Messrs. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., 
J. Braim, W. Hemingway, J. Whitaker, J. Lund, and_ others. 
Several lady visitors also attended. The members were well spread 
over the district under investigation, and, as the records for the day 
show, they were not idle. Some of the members went over the whole 
area, while others, chiefly Messrs. Waite, Braim, and Fortune, 
confined their labours to Leckby Carr, and with excellent results. 
During the day seven species of mammals were met with. The 
country visited was very prolific in bird-life, and no less than 60 
species were recorded ; of these 41 were residents and 19 summer 
visitants. The nests of 13 species were found containing eggs ; the 
egg which probably excited most interest was a Cuckoo’s, found in 
the nest of a Hedge Accentor. Nests of the Barn Owl and Lesser 
Redpole were also found, but they did not contain eggs. Seven 
species of young birds were also seen ; all these are marked on the 
list appended. One particularly noticeable feature observed during 
the ramble was the scarcity of Kingfishers (only one seen), and the 
total absence of Dippers and Sandpipers. One each of Reptiles and 
Amphibians was noticed, and ten species of Fish, including a very 
fine Chub, weighing at least 34 Ibs., and, curious to relate, having 
only one eye; from the appearance of the fish it had never possessed 
another, This specimen was caught by an angler in the Swale, just 
below Cundall Church. The ten-spined stickleback, which is a new 
record for the district, was taken in a stream between Asenby and 
Dishforth. 
The following is the complete list of Vertebrates recorded. 
The asterisks (*) denote that eggs, and the daggers (+) that young 
irds were observed 
Mammals. 
Hedgehog. Brown Rat. Common Field Vole. 
Squirrel. Water Vole. Hare and Rabbit. 
Migrants. 
Wheatear. Willow bode 
Whinchat. Wood Warbler. *Sand Martin, 
Redstart. Sedge bio Swift. 
Whitethroat. Yellow Wagtail. *Cuckoo. 
Lesser Whitethroat. Tree Pipit. Landrail. 
Blackcap. Spotted Flycatcher. 
__Chiffchaff. Swallow. 
