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a few had been seen there and also at Wintersett, but a migra- 
tion of this magnitude seems to be quite a new phenomenon, 
and I hope all being well to go down and observe the same 
myself next spring. 
Now to deal with the omissions. Twenty different species of 
Mr. Arundel. (1) The Dipper. I have seen a single bird when 
fishing at Wentbridge, and Mr. Edmund Leatham told me that 
he once saw a pair. (2) The Mealy Redpoll I have shot on the 
fields bordering the Halfpenny Lane, and (3) the Twite on 
i land at one time farmed by the 
late Mr. Edward Muscroft. (4) The Peregrine Falcon was 
observed by my father and Mr. Edmund Leatham when shooting 
at Hemsworth Dam. It made several stoops at duck and they 
took it to be a young bird. I, myself, once saw a fine mature 
female in the Went Vale. In the great winter of ’80-81 the late 
Mr. Benjamin Stringer, the Pontefract taxidermist, had (5) two 
Cormorants brought in that were shot between East Hardwick 
and Wentbridge. In the same winter—so prolific in wanderers 
at daybreak one morning, on the park farms, I fired into 
a skein of (6) White-Fronted Geese, flying very low in the 
frosty fog, and secured one. My father, when he had the 
shooting on Mr. Watson’s farm at East Hardwick, shot there 
(7) a female Shoveller, and also (8) a female Garganey, and 
Mr. Edmund -.Leatham told me that he had seen, and | think 
shot, the latter on the river at Wentbridge. In September ’88, 
the year of the great irruption of (9) Pallas’ Sand-Grouse, I saw 
a small flock of six feeding in a field in the occupation of the 
late Mr. George Kellet, not many hundred yards above Tanshelf 
Station. I stalked them for some time but they were very wild, 
and at last I gave them both barrels at about eighty yards 
distance, but failed to stop any of them. I never saw or heard 
anything of them again, though I searched most diligently, but 
the same autumn a few were seen bya competent observer on 
a farm at Hemsworth belonging to the late Mrs. Hall, of 
Purston Hall, and at that time in the occupation of Mr. Ellis. 
Mr. Stringer several times had (10) the Spotted Crake brought 
in, and I had a specimen brought to me, killed by the telegraph 
Wires between Tanshelf and Monkhill Stations. I once shot (11) 
a young Grey Plover on the farm at that time occupied by 
Mr. Gott. It was with a small trip of Golden, of which at 
times there used to be considerable numbers, and the late 
Mr, Broadhead, the Anasrasas of Pontefract, once shot another. 
September 1898. : 
