270 Review: Ackworth Birds. 
of which we had the fishing for many years. Mr. Arundel 
mentions the bird under Summer Residents, but does not give 
the name ‘Tom Pudding’ by which it is usually known in the 
district. Page 47: The Blackcap used to breed regularly in the 
gooseberry bushes in my grandfather’s orchard at Friar Wood. 
Though I “have examined scores of Garden Warbler’s eggs, 
I never saw or heard of a red type, like that which occurs in the 
case of the Blackcap. Page 51: No mention is made as to the 
breeding of the Yellow Wagtail. I have found the nest with 
oe at Wentbridge, and I have some eggs which were given 
some years ago by Mr. William Robson, of Pontefract, taken 
o Carleton. On page 59 Mr. Arundel states that in Yorkshire the 
Turtle Dove is considered very uncommon. I know of at least 
a dozen breeding places of the bird, and, as I have recently © 
pointed out in ‘The Zoologist,’ it has extended its range greatly 
of late years. Page 64: No occurrence is said to be known of 
the Teal having stayed to breed. Though I never actually found 
the nest, I have seen a brood three or four days old on the river 
near Wentbridge. Page 67: Though I never found the nest of 
the Wheatear in the district, I once caught a young bird unable 
to fly on the sandy hill-side, where there are a lot of rabbit holes, 
of the road leading from Carleton to Wentbridge. On page 73 it 
is stated that the Snow Bunting has generally occurred in pairs. 
I have always noticed it in flocks, sometimes of considerable 
size, and in the memorable winter of ’80-81 I caught five in 
a sieve trap in our garden at Pontefract, two of which are in my 
collection. Page 74: I have found the Green Woodpecker 
nesting in Thorpe Plantation and in Brockendale. On page 76 it 
is stated that only one occurrence of the Short-Eared Owl is 
_ known of. I have shot several. For many years my father had 
the shooting rights over all the park farms, beginning at the 
_ park gates and running all the way on both sides of the lane up 
_ to Featherstone, and across the L. & Y. railway up to the 
_ Halfpenny Lane. On the farm at that time occupied by 
_ Mr. Wilton there was a small plantation with a stream running 
_ through it—often a sure find for a Woodcock—and I once shot 
_ this Owl there, and have put up others, but as my father did not 
_ like my brother or myself to shoot Owls or Hawks, we used to 
_ Spare them. I have also put them up out of turnips when 
_ partnige shooting on the park farms in October 
. enormous migration of Black Terns obeciy ed at 
Hemsworth Dam, as mentioned by Mr. Arundel, and estimated 
at over a thousand birds, interests me every much. I knew that 
