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NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Lan wintering in Lancashire.—On February 24th, a ‘Grass-quail’ (Crex 
pratensis) was killed on the sewage farm at Stretford. The bird, when flushed, 
flew across a field and was captured in a clump of grass, where it had me refuge. 
satis skinned it stated that the bird was i acre 
a of ae Another peer was killed at the ay pr the tetirlocs 
Cuckoo in March.—Dr. Jackson Atkinson and I heard the Cuckoo ea 
“noe dintinclly and unmistakably on Easter Tuesday, the 27th ult., about 
a 
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w a little distance away, also noted it qu ‘ae ndependently, and we then 
heard it together. We did not cee for the bird, as we had a train to catch, but 
neither of us entertained the slightest doubt on the sciet —JameEs W. ADDYMAN, 
Belmont, Starbeck, Yorkshire, April 2nd, 1894. 
Flamborough Bird-notes.—Some of our summer visitants have arrived on 
the i oba gaia the first to shit e that I observ od being the Pied Wagtail goes 
i 
t 
Cackoo: (Cuculus canorus) on April 9 saw several Hooded ye 
cornzx) coming in from the sea. They: had no doubt been rae oe r shores for 
ood, but had met with contrary winds, consequently had to put back again 
ITHEW BalLey, Flamborough, Apri 16th, 1894. 
Bird-notes from Settle, Craven.—I have seen the Green Sandpiper ( He/o- 
dromas ochropus ) — on the Ribble all the winter until the middle of March. 
Several G Mergus merganser) were on Malham Tarn all through March 
The Peregrines (Paleo perecrinus) are nestin I have noted the following dates 
i £ 2a 
of arrival:—Pied Wagt tail "(Mota lugubri s) and Reed Bunting ( 
scheniclus), March 7th; R ank (Tota anus calidris 7s), March 14th; Dunlin 
ringa variabilis), March ee . heatea xtcola enanthe), : rch 20th; 
Ring Ouzel ( Zurdus torguatus), and Merlin (Falco esalon), March 31st; Redstart 
(Ruticilla pheni. s), April 5th; Common Sandpiper (7% po i ae te ys orang 
illow-Wren (Phylloscopus trochilus) and Corn ar ( 
April 9th ; Yellow Wagtail (A/otacilla rait), April ; Tree Pipi Uae 
trivialis), April 16th; and Swallow (4% rand spt April 18th.— 
Ep D PEAKE, M.A., Settle, ages 22nd, Sig 
rio 
Varieties of tl I 
it is only natural that pene variations in ‘acaie should am be m 
with. In the winter of 1892-3, a white starling Sao — was dais 
of the many flocks which have a common roosting 
ma 
flying fro om and to this plantation, and the number of birds that congregate there 
ney, probably under-estim ated at one hundred eee On the 13th of 
ecember Jas i 
: indivi : , each 
primaries were white, and the tail feathers raid splashed wi brown 
super on the breast and belly was broadly margined with pore whit, giving the the 
metallic sheen so noticeable in a plumaged bird Scan ae 
Ashton-on-Mersey, March 6th, 1894. 
NOTE—C cg OPTERA. 
t » Mr W. Hodgson, 
ametancec 
Hylurgus piniperda in Cumberland.— 
A.L.S., of Weclieeion, has recently publi shed in a local ey : 
of the discovery of nag coset cng (Burs piniperda) im in es 
in Sept. 1889. e the consensus of inte as to the m 
of destroying this ‘ nd we eet 
