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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1884: 

 Papers and records published during the year with respect 

 to the natural history and physical features of the 

 North of England. 



We are gratified with the appreciative welcome which many of our 

 readers have given to the first instahiient of the Bibhography. We 

 should be still further pleased if any deficiencies in it, or any sub- 

 sequent portion of it, were pointed out to us. We may repeat that, 

 where no other year is either expressed or implied, 1884 is always 

 understood. 



PART II.-BIRDS. 



The scientific names which are editorially inserted are in strict 

 accordance with the British Ornithologists' Union List of Birds. 



Anonymous (no signature). 



Eobbery by a Tomtit. Land and Water, May loth, p. 439. Cheshire. 

 At Sheabridge Hall, Cheshire, a ' Tomtit ' abstracted a cheque from a 

 letter-box. 



Anonymous (no signature). 



Lancaster. Nat. Hist. Journ., December 15th, viii. 179. Lancashire. 

 Several Swallows {Hirundo ritstica) on October 23rd. 

 Anonymous (no signature). 



York. Nat. Hist. Journ., December 15th, viii. 179. Yorkshire. 

 Larks (? Alaiida ai-vensis) singing freely, November ist and 3rd. 

 Anonymous (no signature). 



Determined Tits. Land and Water, August 9th, p. 150. llorthumberland. 

 A pair of Blue Tits \Parus cceruleus], persisted, time after time, both in 

 1883 and 1884, in nesting in a letter-box at Nisbet, Northumberland. 



Anonymous (no signature). Lincolnshire. 

 Natural History at the International Health Exhibition. Field, May 1 7th, p. 669. 

 ^Thelsjxoi {'Jrijigacaniitus) . . mostly comes to market from Lincoln- 

 shire. ' 



Honey Buzzard {Pernis apivoncs] in Lincolnshire. Land and Water, Decem- 

 ber 6th, p. 557. 



Killed in September, on Sir Hugh Cholmley's estate, Easton Hall. Set up 

 by J. Evans, taxidermist, Bourne, Lincolnshire. 



Anonymous [The Gardener (The Elms, Kirk Ella, Hull)]. Yorkshire. 

 Kobin's \_Erithaais riibeciiia] Nest in a pot of Maidenhair Fern. Field, 

 May 17th, p. 670. 



The fronds completely hide the nest. Bird sitting on five eggs. 

 Anonymous [C. Histos]. Notts. 

 Puffin {^Fratercula arctica] in Nottinghamshire. Field, November 29th, p. 760. 

 Picked up after a heavy storm week before last. One of the first occurrences 

 of the species in Notts. 



Anonymous (Little Rod). 



Notes from Ullswater. Land and Water, Jan. 5th, p. 17. Cumberland. 

 December, 1883, mild. Starlings {Stw-mts viilgaris\ in flocks near Patter- 

 dale Church. Rock Dove \Cohiniba livid\ on the Cliffs of Priest Crag, where 

 March 1885. 



