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NOTES AND NEWS. 



We are in receipt of the Second Edition of Mr. J. \Y. Tutt's interesting little 

 book entitled * Random Recollections of Woodland, Fen, and Hill ' (George Gill 

 and Sons, publishers, London, 1895), the ^ rst edition of which we had the pleasure 

 of noticing a year or two back. We can only add our congratulations to the 

 author on the popularity which has attended his venture, and a reiteration of the 

 opinions we formed on perusing the first Edition. 



NO TES— ORNITHOL OGY. 



Great Northern Diver on the Lincolnshire Coast. — One of these fine 



birds {Colyntbus glacialis) has been handed in to the secretary of the Louth 

 Museum this week, by Mr. W. F. Taylor, of Theddlethorpe. It was captured 

 on the 8th December by a villager on the shore, who in consequence of its feeble 

 condition, was able to capture it by hand. — J. Larder, Louth, Dec. 14th, 1895. 



East Yorkshire and other Ornithological Notes.— ^ 



Hawfinch {Coccothraustes vulgaris). — We have had again this year at Hullbank 

 a brood. I find the young birds keep with the old ones during the autumn and 

 winter. On the 3rd December, a fine old cock Hawfinch flew against the 

 dining-room large plate-glass window, and was so much stunned that I went out and 

 saw it on the ground with its bill open, and quite unconscious. I took it in my 

 hand, and replaced it, giving it the only chance to recover from concussion of 

 the brain. In about twenty minutes it flew away and joined the rest of the 

 brood in the adjoining trees. In the summer of 1893, a young Hawfinch flew 

 against the drawing-room window and died within a few minutes. Many 

 Blackbirds, Thrushes, Chaffinches, etc., fly against these windows and die 

 every year. 



Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus streperus). — We have many nests in the reeds in my 

 large pond at Hullbank. Hornsea Mere is also a very favourite place for their 

 nesting. One year I found a nest about ten feet high in a yew tree overhanging 

 the pond. Another year a pair made their nest and hatched their young in 

 a black-currant bush in my kitchen garden which is about 200 yards from the 

 pond. I have both these nests carefully preserved. 



Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). — A young Cuckoo was hatched in two consecutive 

 years in a Water Wagtail's nest, situate in the walks between two windows of 

 the library on the ground floor of * South Leigh, 3 Havant, Hants. Were the 



two eggs laid by the same Cuckoo ? 

 Woodcock (Scolopax rusticold). — Extraordinary experience. — My son, Lieut. 

 Haworth- Booth, R.N., was lately out shooting with his man near Queenstown, 

 Ireland, when they flushed a Woodcock out of a small spinney, but marked it 

 well down about 1 50 yards ofT on the edge of a small covert. They went carefully 

 to the spot, and w r hen within about fifty yards of the place a large Hawk, 

 a Peregrine, in splendid plumage, jumped off the ground and flew into a tree 

 and lodged there for a moment. The man called * mark, 5 but my son said it 

 was a Hawk and that the ■ cock ' would be there too. So they advanced, and 

 when within a few yards of the spot marked my son saw on the ground with 

 its tail fanned and wings spread open and head back, a beautiful Woodcock, 

 which, springing forwards, he picked up. It was quite alive with fresh blood 

 on it, and evidently had just been struck by the Hawk, having two marks on it, 

 one on the breast and the other on the wing. The gamekeeper afterwards told 

 my son he had known this Falcon come regularly for the last three years to this 

 place at the same time with the Woodcocks. Well might Grumio say — * O this 

 Woodcock ! what an ass it is ! ' 



Spotted Sandpiper {Tringoides macularius) {Notes, ■ Naturalist,' September 

 November, 1895). — I almost think with Canon Tristram that this very 

 American migrant finds its way via Iceland and the Faroe Isles to Norway 

 thence to the East coast of England, where alone it has been found, in com 



with the other regular migrants. I should be glad to show my specimen to 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, or any other well known authority. 



B. B. HaWORTH -BOOTH. Hullbank Hall, near Hull roth TWomher. iSoC. 



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