298 NOTES : ORNITHOLOGY. 
mn the Eggs of the Stone Curlew.—No locality is Lotte for this 
note— cetaps wisely in the present day. Twenty or ekgohpect -five ago this 
Bird (dicnemus edicnemus) was not at all un aay n the wast y tail pene” 
ing the canal from Market ee to Selby. ces it there yearly, nd as an 
ornithologist and oologist to observe it with interest. Peewits (Vaneli es 
vanellus) then bred there so abundantly that 1 tie eggs were ee collected 
by the farm labourers, and through village dealers sent up to t ond 
for sale. Amongst the eggs sthus obtained those of the Stone Curlew were by no 
means unfrequent, and the farm boys knew them well. I once owned a large 
series thus Parapet _ n after the land—poor as the me was—came under 
cultivation and los' any of its od Fico that it ceased to interest i: 
Whether the bird aBed thee yet Ido now, but doubt it.—N. F. Dos 
petted East Yorkshire, 2nd Sept so. 
nga Swift Roosting in in Tre —Last anes at seven o’clock, I was 
near the top of Stepn ney Hill, Scarbro’, ad saw two Swifts CO Ee ty? i 
suspended like a cies hawk-moth. e Swifts have not “all left here. TZ saw 
about a dozen flying over the main street this morning. —W. GYNGELI1, Scarbro’, 
September 2nd, 1897. 
The Eggs of the Roseate Tern.—With reference to my remarks on the 
nesting of the Roseate bes Ap & terna dougallit) i in the British =n which appear red 
ril number of the ‘ Naturalist,’ it will remembered that I pest 
m 
Crows’ and Rooks’ eggs, or eggs of other closel allied : species. Like 
they vary among themselves. The Rose eates, ed specie in the density of the 
rm: e rou : 
as in the case of the Arctic and Common Terns’ eggs, does the 
aie colo consist of a dark stone colour, brown, bluish-green, dull SS 
an . r 
ashy € com characteristicness about them different from th 
of the other species meplones, and the es of the Roseate Te enerally 
more elongated than those of the and Arctic specie rule the << fy, 
clutch teint of two ripen: only, very rarely are there three. I could mention the ; 
names of several gentlemen well versed in oolsey. ae Dr. Bow ant ( 
of the British Museum m, wi onvinced their distinctness 
ho have been 
G. Porree, 14, Bootham Crescent, ork, Sep. ne "1897 a 
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