bibliography: birds, 1892. 169 



D. Lort Thorpe. Cumberland. 



Imitative Powers of the Starling [{Stunms vulgaris) as noted near 



Carlisle ; notes of the Oystercatcher, Curlew, Landrail, and Common 

 Sandpiper imitated], Zool., May 1892, p. 192. 



John E. Tinkler. York N.W. 



[List of] the Avi-fauna of Arkengarthdale, Swaledale, and the New 



Forest [enumerating and fully annotating 122 species ; good topographical 

 introduction ; local names, faunistic position, localities, stated for each bird]. 

 Nat., Oct. and Nov. 1892, pp. 309-325. 



H. B. Tristram. 



York S.E. 



Note on Emberiza cioides, Brandt [and its occurrence at Flamborough, 



Oct. 1887]. Ibis, July 1889, PP- 2 93"4> an(i P Jate IO - 



Edgar R. Waite. 



York Mid W. 



Smews [Mergus albellus] at Newton Kyme near Tadcaster [a female, 



Jan. 19th, 1892, and a male also; first since one killed winter ot 1829-30]. 

 Nat., Feb. 1892, p. 34. 



Edgar R. Waite. 



York N.W., Durham. 



[Birds observed by] the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Rokeby [on 



June 6th ; Tardus viscivorns, T. mitsicus, T. merttla, Saxicola, Pratincola 

 rubetra, Ritticilla phanicttrtts, Erithacns, Sylvia cinerea, S. atricapilla, 

 S. ho rt en sis, Reguhts cristatits, Phylloscopns trochilus, Ph. raj its, Ph. sibila- 

 trix % Acrocephalus phragniitis, Accentor, Ciucltts, Parus major, -P. aeruletts, 

 P* bntannicits, Troglodytes, Alotacilla litgubris, M. rail, Anthus pratensis, 

 Muscicapa grisola, Hirundo, Chelidon, Cotile, Certhia, Ligurinus, Passer 

 (both), Fringilla Calebs, Emberiza miliaria, E. citr bulla, Sturtuts, Pica, 

 Corvus montdula, C. corone, C. frttgilegits. Alaitda arvensis, Cypselus, 

 Accipiter nisus, Cohimba palumbus, C. anas, Phasianus, Perdix, Crex, 

 Gallinula ckloropus, and Vanellus ; the Cypselus in Barnard Castle town, 

 co. Durham]. Nat., July 1892, pp. 208-209. 



Edgar R. Waite. 



York Mid W. 



* Escapes/ with a Note on the Magellanic Goose [Bemicla magetlanica] 



in Yorkshire [a pair at Bishopthorpe, near York ; the * Escapes ' are Larus 

 argent at as at Headingley and Calverley, an Australian Quail and a Golden 

 Pheasant, at Leeds]. Nat., Aug. 1892, pp. 251-253. 



H. S. Ward. 



York Mid W. 



The Mild Season [noting- on Rombalds Moor, Jan. 20th, 1884, a flight of 



300 * Plovers ' ; also an Ardea cinerea and Anas boschas on Lanshaw Dam]. 

 Nat. World, Feb. 1884, p. 27. 



Robert Warren 



Cheviotland 



Birds on the Fame Islands [inquiring if Mr. Paynter is quite certain 



that the Terns which deserted their young and eggs were the Arctic (Sterna 

 maerura) and not the Common Tern {S. /uviatilis)]. Field, May 21st, 1892, 



P- 741. 



C. S. Watson. Cumberland, 



* Two Swallows [Hirundo mstica] do not make a Summer' [two seen 



19th March, 1892, at Br ought on, near Cockermouth]. N.H.J., April 15th, 

 1892, p. 48. 



C. S. Wat >n. 



Cumberland. 



[Birds noted near] Carlisle {Tringdides, Phylloscoptts rujus, PA. trochilus, 

 Saxicola, 20th April, at Cote House Island]. N.H.J., May 15th, 1S02, p. 63. 



E. G. Wheler. Cheviotland. 



Marked Woodcocks {{Scolopax rusticola) ; in spring 1891 six young ones 



were caught in Hulne Parke, Alnwick, and marked S N 91'*: one of these 

 was shot in the Park, Oct 31st]. Field, Nov. 19th, 1892, p. 764; Zool., 

 Dec. 1892, p. 427. 



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June 1896. 



