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NOTES—ORNITHOLOG Y. 
Little Auks at Redcar.—There has been greet mortality arenes Little 
Auks (Mergulus atte) Mase the gales in January and February. I have tried to 
ascertain from local taxidermists what number cag has had, and _ compat = 
ea = not. Jes than "250 : I, myself, saw seven, ae ed up on ach o 
on Nab (one of che <ieveland 
Hills) + saaehs : and aay friend Col. I’Anson n, pie me that he had one which 
was found on Leem g Lane, between Thirsk and Ripon.—T. 7a "Ne LSON 
Redcar, Feb. 5th, 165 tg 
Li Auks on the Northern Coast.—Quite a number of these rare ve 
visitants (Mergulus at) © have at taken round the North Coast during the recent 
seve ne, which came into my possession las 2 
was caught alive by ies stows. ladies on the Long Sands at Tynemouth, but died 
on after its c r he re a number o m on the fo) coast 
at Whitley, N orthumberland, quite close to and, amongst the surf. Some men 
tried to catch them with dogs, Mee rhe? § time the ag 2 came near the Little Auks 
dived under the surf and esc fea RCH ew e-on-Tyne, Fe 
Little Auks near slesehed ring the recent severe weather there pare 
ee at : reas of ae spas 5 Utegus aud in this ae pe urhood. Thr 
esh have been seen by the w The first of ss wn sang t 
whilst trying to * paddle’ on the snow at Holman, in the eos week of January, 
san a ature x The second 
(a mature bird) was killed at Ilkley about a sen tates he thi ” : — seen was 
aught at Great Horton (Bradford) at the end of January ad very fine clea 
adult specimen, proving, on dissection, to be a female. Several other strange birds 
which I have had desc _— _ o doubt belonged to , by the 
size and description give not ‘caesar eenina o a of this truly: oceanic 
species having visited this district ‘teleee! a nd so ma ing within one month 
— speaks for the severity of the weather we have been ¢ expeien ing. From the 
he birds ll of s snow a sub- 
stitute me os nativ ve @ element, asin il 
to ‘ pad n the snow. —H. Ris Boon Fesngall Salton, Feb. oth, 1895. 
ead milk, but with only partial success; and y suggestion some fish 
was ed, but it was apparently too weak to be able to eat it, and on the same 
ae it leaped from a r upon which it was floating, xpired. 
ub of wa ng, and e : 
pears highly probable that it was blown inland by the severe north-westerly 
pe roe the Rieame Saturday, and, therefore, would have been without food for 
ot days at the time that it was picked up, and, I should infer, was too exhaust 
ofa a penguin, but with the less elevated, and its gait was a less pronounced 
waddle. It was, poets very much disi neli ned to walk, and when unmolested 
om eins: on to its breast. aeayes 
esentment ; » tie only demonstration that it made was to open i 
widely, for for food, I su suspect, but it m: reed have been in! ar" os as a threat or sania 
RcY F. KENDALL, Chapel-Allert held Jan. , 1895. 
i Wopses> near Bradford Aes ie was investigating 
a case of the breeding of the Woodcock ee Denton, near Rhydding, when 
I saw Mr. W. Hewett’s note under the above heading, in the January nu f 
*ih ist.” Thinking his note might refer to the same pai nton, 
I wrote that gentleman a ve pleasure in stating that two pairs of these 
Lag a in this one in ,» and er in 
stric n redal 
The pair nse dhe: to by Mr. Hewett nested in a small w 
Sutton’s mill, about four miles up the valley from Keighley. The eggs were 
in E by two boys early in April, and afterwards passed into the pentose of - 
sn ¢ 
The other pair nested in gy Woods, near Ben Rhydding, ioe 
Sictatagaay broughtoff four young birds. —H. B. Boorn, Frizinghall, Feb. gth, 1895. 1895 
“Naturalist, 
