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attain a small size: nearly all those vised by the fishermen as bait, 

 come from Holland. Vast quantities of Limpets {Patella vulgaris), 

 are gathered by the fishermen and girls ; they are locally known as 

 'Cithers'; and it is a picturesque sight, the women from the adjoining 

 villages coming down the cliffs, they are always called c Hither girls, 

 with their shawls on their heads, and their baskets on their backs, 

 all eager to gather as many limpets as the)' can before the tide 

 washes over their prey, and drives them back. Various Pectm$> 

 locally known as 'queens,' are got in the trawls, and I had one very 

 large Peden maximus, which was got in this manner. There is 

 a small species of Diptera, a black fly, called the Sand Fly, which 

 lays its eggs on the seaweed just above high-water mark, and when 

 shore shooting in the early autumn I have often been astonished at the 

 countless thousands of small maggots, extending for miles, and 

 wriggling all over the sand. They form abundant food for the 

 various shore-birds, waders, gulls, etc. 



NO TES— ORNITHOL O G K 



Flamborough Bird-notes. — I have nothing of much importance in the way 

 of birds to mention, with the exception of a great many Red poles (Linota rtffesiens) 

 that I have seen here in December 1895, and January 1896 — more than I have 

 seen altogether for the last twenty years; they have been noticed all about the 

 neighbourhood, several people having made inquiries of me respecting them- Also 

 a few Fieldfares {Tardus pilaris) ; you will there find them in the very fields they 

 always resort to every season. The fishermen inform me of large quantities of 

 Guillemots (Lomvia troiie) coming into the cliffs. — Matthew Baii.ky, Flam- 

 rough, February 17th, 1S96. 



North Lancashire Bird Notes. 



Euteo vit iris Leach. Several pairs formerly to be seen in the Broughton district. 

 In the late eighties and early nineties I often, on going up the Duddon valley, 

 saw them about Bank End and Raven's Crag on Dannerclale Fell- One of my 

 specimens taken on Broughtoo Moor, 1891 ; the other in the parish of Thwaites r 



Cumberland. 



No North Lancashire of South Cumberland stations are given in 



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District. 



Fako peregrmm Tunst. A pair nested on Dow Crags, Coniston, 1895. Mac- 

 pherson, pp. 209-12. gives it as seen at Flookborough and Walney, both coast 



localities. 



Falco irsalcn Tunst. Not often observed tx . My specimen was shot on 

 Broughton Moor, 1 >2, by a gamekeeper. Macpherson, pp. 212-14. p*«* 

 Coniston Fells and Walney Island. 



ILtmalcph; mtralegu$ L. A large Bock seen passing over Ulleswater, Aug. I&95* 

 Macpherson mentions no inland locality. 



Cotymbus glacialis L. A female in winter plumage shot on Galloper Pool, near 

 Foxfield, during the great frost of January- February, 1895. The bird is now in 

 my possession. Macpherson gives three shot near Barrow— two in 1890-91 , and 

 one, 1876 — and one on Windermere, 1888. 



—J. W. Fawcttt, Broughton in-Furness, December 1S95, 



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