176 NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
I agree with Mr. Cordeaux that birds do not always take the 
most direct routes to and from their. summer and winter quarters 
(I have observed that here), and that the lines of migration followed 
are often inexplicable or most difficult to understand. It was in the 
hope of elucidating the history of the movements of JZ radi that 
I commenced this discussion, and I thank Mr. Cordeaux for the 
help he has rendere 
[We think the Suicuieian aie fittingly terminate here.—Eps. Nat.] 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Bharat Dales, I was plea om to notice the abundance of prance 
nd apilla. now of several localities in the county whale these beautiful 
little birds a ne a found spel every year; but in one <geergy glen in the 
— ot tioned I came across fully a dozen cies I put one hen bir 
a recently-c complete nest, but it nepal no eggs.— OXLEY GRABHAM, M.A; 
CrontonVille, — May 20th, 1894. 
mer migrants. 17th the first allo ‘ierands pant 
arrived, and on April 18th the Redstart (Auéicilla phanicurus) e latter 1s 
ry scarce with us this seas avi een som r four, D 
— — 5s n ’ 19th I gohan ar wee (Sylvia 
ea). others hav 
the Swift (Crpetas ae, the Pied F lyeacher (atasceape ats icapilla), and one 
ooded C vruus cornix) t ad alone on the headland.— 
ee TTHEW phe Fiasco aay 18t ie Sa 
East Abe. —. Notes.—Two fine : poomtnse of the Bittern (Botarus 
stellaris), once so’ hat co pte in Britain, but now one of our rare. visitors, 
were killed 1 near | eestor ogehe inter; one on the aad December, and the other 
on January 3rd. They have been carefully preserved by Mr. Stuart, of Beverley. 
It is er that theks birds should be slaughtered as soon as they arrive on 
our coasts. 
A sisal flock of Dotterel (Zudromias morinellus), in fine breeding plumage, 
Market W: ay, May 18 
was ear eighton yesterda ay 18th, and I regret os 
es -—_ were shot e seen in the flesh to-day. These birds would n 
passing o ay to their nesting haunts (perhaps the Cumberl nd 
hills), and 2 think the fact of their being found in the East Riding at such a late 
om the cold weather we have been 20 ee naps, he ast oe 
weeks, ol which scans to be growing An intensity. 
Another sign of the cold spring is that Rigg ere (Rise tridactyl) x 
Speeton Cliffs soci ergy a commencing 8 es a espects 1 
a forward seas E. G. Potter, York, as ‘ie 
Note on the Cuckoo,—On June 5th, 1886, I found a Robin’s nest at 
Prestbury, near Macclesfield, soneerne five eggs, one of which was aa 8 ’S. 
e ane. On May 30th, 1887, in the 
and not ten yards from the Wie 4 ‘of the previous year, I found aorer "Robin's 
nest containing a young Cuckoo (Cuculus seins a day or two old apparently: 
Three or four Robin’s eggs were lying on the bank near the nest. These 
— SS very much incubated. Two year later, May 21st, 1889, 
la sea n found a Robin’s nest in the same bank, but about a ~—— Locka higher 
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p ane, gpk corres five eggs, one a Cuckoo’s, One cannot help thinking 
nya this i is something more than mere polcidaacno Bs Buownswonn: Heaton 
r, Stockport, May 15th, 1894. ee 
Naturalist, 
