Notes— Ornithology. 329 
‘If they had travelled the thirty or forty miles from York- 
shire they would be rounded and waterworn, and be like 
shingle, The bulk of the stones have their edges rounded, 
ut not sufficiently to indicate any long journey (the stones 
along the Yorkshire coast itself are more worn), and there are 
many, especially the flints and some of the granite, which have 
their edges as sharp as the day they were. born, and every 
appearance of only having been released from the drift in which 
they had been bedded very recently. 
‘They are of the same character as those I have found:in the 
boulder clay in other parts of this coast, except that I did not 
come across any Oolite stones, but I found several fragments of 
Septaria, similar to those found in the excavations here.’ 
‘June 1899.’ ‘(Signed) W. H. WHEELER.’ 
aha haere . 
NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Wryneck at Raa Wi ayneck ne ep has occurred 
in the East “ge his summer, ‘as d luc - ched 
on a thorn bus nig secges 4 on the per es oe oth aoe and obtained 
an excellent view it.--J. R. Lowruer, Crane Hill, eeuaiiey, oth 
er 1899. 
s in Northumberland.—I was in some very large and dense 
I 
~—H. T. ARcHER, 3, Burnside Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26th 
Late Sin nging of Nightingale.—On the 8th July I = a Night mE 
(Dautias luscinia fa le ih fig inaw gies, ar here, where there are always 
a 
been robbed of its — or had los mate esting a 
F Burton, Highfield, sa teabrchiaeh: 28th hay: emtey 
Early Arrival of Migrants near Horncastle.—On the roth October 
ig observed in this parish a ciibe (Gallinago gallhcigo) and a Woodcock 
Thrush (7urdus viscivorus), the harbinger of winter, has vel arrived. 
J. Conway Water, Langton Rectory, opncketl e, 13th Oct 
Relics of the Storm.—On Friday afternoon, 22nd Se sere as. 
Mr. H. Preston, F.G.S., was cycling home from the Waterworks, he noticed 
u he 
Grant capturing the bird it pr } 
droma pelagica > or Mother Carey's Chicken—a bird met with far 
out at sea, and frequently seen riding on the waves in the more stormy 
weather, No doubt the ‘pretty little creature had drifted inland with the 
m 
rown shot another hovering over a sma ewes of turnip in 
optic et between the 22nd and 3oth September. — . WOODRUFFE- 
k, Cadney, Brigg, 4th October 1899. 
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