NOTE—FISHES. 
Codfish and its Appetite——On May oth a large Codfish cage i 
was caught at Flamborough by Benjamin Crees, pore teace with 59 fish-hooks 
its stomach ; when taken it was only in poor oo 3 the h Les were middle 
size, and what are called tinned backs hey a ow in the possession of 
Mr. John Duke.—MATTHEW BAILEY, pool ee dy Peat 19th, 1893. 
Sits are seein td 
Badger oon saree cage ee —As this animal (J/e/es taxus) is now becoming 
while record its ea near this town. An adult 
n J 
Nottingham Museum. A second s mably a female, was seen in 
the same locality.—J. W. C inks Uatecesity ates, Hultiiveles, aay ee 1893. 
pe oe Mie a bas ai e 
Turtle Dove and Nightingale near Goole. . Thomas Bunker has 
kindly sent me a very fine specimen of the I i er Dove ay vtur Rergenewe — 
was obtained at Rawcliffe on in _ S . Bunker states that he 
before had a Turtle Dove sen m the cality 
pair of i i (Daulias ‘isctatd} pes this year taken up their abode 
within two miles of sete = st they will be left in peace. —RILEY FORTUNE, 
Harrogate, May 17th, 18 
Lesser Whi eit ts Bakewell.—In ‘Birds of al faue a ae Whitlock 
states, with regard to the r at (Sylvia curruca) th Mr. Storrs 
Fox has not Pcasaisee it near Bakewell.’ On Whit Friday, May prs 1885, 
I found two nests with eggs, not a mile Pal Bakewell Church. In each case the 
F. BROWNsworD, Heaton ree Shosanent, June 4th, 1 
Gulley Tern in Lancashire.—Mr. Mitchell, in his ‘ Bi rds of Lancashire,’ 
states that the Lesser Tern (Sterza minuta) used to is we ed between Lytham and 
Blac h ulati 
big g searched t 
a for a fortnight. Jn 1892 I eo oot 5 see a single bird.—F. BROWNSWORD, 
Heaton moon, Sto ig » June 4th, 
e Distri trict.—Duri a_recent visi 
ozen pairs 
town. In the immediate neighbour I met with pairs at Levens “Hall, and 
ffs were not so plentiful as at the former place, but I m 
eed hag. an exceptional year rther extension north of 
its r. The Willow Wren (Pili “recils) fad the Wood Warbler 
(Pyllascopus age vix) I met with in abun Mr. Macpherson’s 
remark hon _— species is sufficiently. pie ce to ot tt interesting is a very 
appy oticed in nearly every locality that where - iffchaff was 
pra Lies a iachow sein a also haunted the wood.—F. B. WHITLOCK, 
Beeston, Notts, June 15th 
Naturalist, 
