NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
East Yorkshire Bird-Not 
Hawfinch or Grosbeak | Coovarciis vulgaris). A pair bred here at Hull- 
bank, near Hull, in 1893. The old birds with their young ones remained here 
until December. They soon Beatie very shy and wary. In Derbyshire they 
are very numerous; they come from the woods in the early morning; they 
of green peas, and do great mischief in ae gardens. 
ed to 
kitchen mice, moles, young "rats, once a weasel (dead), often ee _ 
once a . ive full- a aos — How did she catch it? Possibly saw it 
fly into a rat-hole—or caught it sitting on an overhanging bough, wench 
— small ys as I hase often seen them 
HaworrH-Boorn, Hullbank Hall, near Hull, September 17th, 1895. 
Large Birds of Prey in Lincolnshire.—In Mr. Cordeaux’s meat ing paper 
on bygone Lircolnshire, mention is made of the former abundance of the larger 
birds of prey. One of our Nottingham hotel keepers, et r. W. W.. uckmanton, 
tells me that his boyhood was spent on a farm in the n saapwiee of Potter 
anworth i 
five years ago, an almost adc stretch of woodland Gxsdad from Potter 
Hanworth to Blankney. Game not preserved i in the strictest meaning of the 
term, and birds of prey were spancuah uckmanton — pon gist —- lange 
and dowel sah species which he calls “Pueleads’ was very C 
says that they hada ‘pat of sailing round in grand gore ied le pri thew wes 
denly swooping do n some unfortunate farm-yard chicken. He often i 
up to their nestt—lange ae of sticks, qeneralls high up some tree—an 
the young. He reared many of them, feeding them on rats, mice, and spars 
I suppose these peste woe be Kites (tous ictinus ed s them 
k plumage. Sparrow H awks pk nin) — 
nt too. ar. Duc on in 
s uu ’ 
that he trained a pair of the former species to take live somos egy 
thrown up for them.—F, B. WHITLOCK, Beeston, Sep. 13th, 1895. 
Muscicapa atricapilla in Lakeland.—This b sapere Boe: whose increase 
of neh years has oe coticed in several quarters, now s o have gai sined fires 
footing in Lakela: In pees years I have known i o different areas of 
d in pric and the other in Gcreiend}. ns this year I have 
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m ik it in a third area fyi esmootiandy where it appeared so numerously 
established that, with limited opportunities of locomotion, I counted as man, 
n singing males stationed about, in May. Whether all remained to | 
other, and the male birds sang at close quarters without discord or excitement. 
On wi once, when one ie ang right into the epee = the other, and ce 
too, the hen — off her eggs, was there jealousy and an The song of eac 
eo ceased what seemed to be the date of the hatching: of the gi It wee h 
urprising to etek ashe pean te was the feeding area of each » bor Eee 
tr : 
y show : 
<< of re-marriage, but whether el ee r not I do not know; they Se 
use the old ees pbropeilng Setanta: 23rd, 1895, Meese 
