Notes— Ornithology. 279 
years he has been the valued adviser of him who undertook to 
prepare the results of the investigation as a whole. 
- Mr. Cordeaux had a competent knowledge in several other 
branches of natural history, especially as regards botany, 
mammals, and fishes. He filled, with distinction, the important 
office of President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, and, 
on its formation in 1890, he was elected to the chief post of honour 
in the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union as its first President. He 
was gifted with a graceful pen and a poetical imagination, and 
these contributed to make his writing peculiarly attractive. 
As a friend and a man it is impossible to speak in terms too 
high. He possessed a singularly charming personality, and was 
beloved by all who knew him, while his sterling worth and lofty 
principles won for him universal esteem. 
By his death a wide circle has lost a true and very dear 
friend, and British natural history an Eee Mustaste and accom- 
plished devotee. W. EAGLE CLARKE. 
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NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Wryneck on the Coast of Holderness.—A female Wry —_ ve 
torguilia) as caught by a dog near git cli e 4 Ro elation on on the 11 
It was in very poor sige I have never before heard of this species in 
Holderness. pad Dar » the: bird stuffer in in Hull, told me it was 37 ye 
_ Since he had seen a pe n.—B. B. HAWORTH- seer Hullbank Hall, 
mall manufacturing eal about two miles from here. e plumage 
of both birds is much dir than those met — in Norfolk or Essex. 
—JOHNSON WILKINSON, Huddersfield, sth June 
N es near Horncastle.—One rara avis of these parts is the 
Nightingale (Daulias luscinia). Whether Mr. "Hawley i is op ee with 
visits of this bird I do not know, but the first seca le it in 
Lincoinshire was as I was walking one mby iia oy is ne 
morning, on my way to fish at Dogdyke. This work ns ‘before Mr. Hawle 
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recent years, been reported at Welbeck Wath in Yorkshire. It also bred in 
Northumberland in 1895. In Lincolnshire it has been heard, within the last 
