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ICTERINE WARBLER AT EASINGTON IN 
HOLDERNESS: 
AN ADDITION TO THE YORKSHIRE AVIFAUNA. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. 
I RECENTLY obtained from Mr. Philip Loten, of Easington, the skins 
of six small birds brought in by the village boys, at various times 
during the spring, either such as had been found dead or killed with 
the subject. This is the first Yorkshire example recorded of this 
continental species; three (two in England and one in Ireland) 
are mentioned as occurring between 1848 and 1889, by Mr. Howard 
Saunders in his ‘Manual of British Birds,’ and in the appendix to 
that work, mention is made of another, an adult male, obtained at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne on June zoth, 1889. The Icterine Warbler is also 
supposed to have been heard and seen in county Wicklow and in 
Pembrokeshire in May, 1886 (Zool., 1886, pp. 333-4 
The song of this charming watbler is so rich, lo ad and varied, 
that it is scarcely probable it would long escape notice should a 
example at any time wander to this country, and take up its sbods'th in 
garden or park. 
The Easington bird was sent to my friend, Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke, 
of the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh, and has subsequently 
been purchased for that Museum. 
7th July, 1891. 
BS ee ig) 
Malham Plan tice that in the report of the Y.N. Me excursion to 
Malham an Contec moth September (Nat., June, oe pp- 177), Cocklearia 
anglica a arduus acaulis are mention having fete as during 
excursion. e former is tatiely a littoral plant, occurring o dy seashores, 
(N. to Moray on the W. coast), and t plant was probably C. fe: 
which is there abundant. anglica occur: Y at all, it would m 
probably be ont banks, under tidal i near Goole. If th 
record for Carduus acaulis is correct, it is a great extension of the plant’s range in 
4 , it pr us] reported from the eme S. of Ridin 
in that limi rea ju ad hee Lees to belong to Watson’s ome y, As the 
species is now known to occur in N.E. Yorks., however, it may oc ar N. as 
Malham. tibed oder seh pore the’ plant. intended ? This is most abundihe acre; 
in the list. 
The occ ade Sor Ceara europea at Malham is very interesting, confirming 
the occurrence of ant in Shia We st Yorkshire. This species generally 
occurs in much warmer localities and at much lower altitudes. —W. West, Junr., 
Bradford, 8th July, 1891. 
August 18 891. Q 
