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breeding purposes, but tbe more open country lanes and gardens. 

 It is, however, a rare breeding species in North-West Yorkshire (see 

 • Zoologist,' 1914, p. 110.) 



Mr. Harry B. Booth writes me under date July 17th informing 

 me that Mr. Greaves, of Hebden Bridge, had written him telling him 

 that a friend, Mr. Sutcliffe, reported having seen a pair of Stonechats 

 near Grassington in Wharfedale, and on going to Grassington he had 

 seen a male and female Stonechat and also a young one, strong on 

 the wing, near Grassington railway. Although the pair may have 

 bred somewhere in the neighbourhood where they were observed, it 

 is by no means certain, since it is a well-known habit for some birds, 

 after having done breeding and the young being well on the wing, to 

 wander away from their breeding-haunts. It would have been more 

 satisfactory to have actually found the nest ; this would have been 

 a very interesting record. This species is a very rare breeding 

 species in North- West Yorkshire (see ' Zoologist ' for 1901, p. 61). — 

 E. P. Butterfield (Wilsden). 



Bird and Insect Notes from Bolton Woods, Yorks. — I visited Bolton 

 Woods in Wharfedale on the occasion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union visit on Saturday, May 20th last, and stayed the week-end at 

 Hougill under Simon Seat, which is higher up the valley, returning 

 on the following Monday. In the stretch of the river between Bolton 

 Woods and Barden Tower I watched with my field-glasses, for an 

 hour at least, a White Wagtail, expecting to find its nest ; but in this 

 I was disappointed, as it kept close to the river, chiefly on the left 

 bank, and in sight all the time, and was busy catching insects. Other- 

 wise I saw nothing else very noteworthy. The usual characteristic 

 birds were there in their usual numbers, viz. Common Sandpiper, 

 Grey Wagtail, and Dipper, of the last of which I saw two nests — one 

 with young and another with eggs. I did not see the Greater Spotted 

 Woodpecker nor the Hawfinch. The head gardener to the Duke of 

 Devonshire informed me that this species had not been quite as 

 common as in some previous years — a remark quite as applicable to 

 this district (Airedale). It is, however, interesting to again record 

 the nesting of the Woodcock in Bolton Woods. The Green Hairstreak 

 Butterfly (Thecla rubi) was quite common, nay, it can be said to have 

 actually swarmed, in the haunts where my brother and I found it 

 thirty years ago, and the somewhat local Bee Andrena cineraria had 

 its nests in abundance in some drift mounds near Hougill. — E. P. 

 Butterfield. 



