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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1 884: BIRDS. 



(S. caiitiacd). Full and interesting details of their habits and breeding haunts 

 are given. 



Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society. Midi. Nat., 

 November, vii. 331. 



A male Uria grylle shot at the Farne Islands in nearly full summer plumage, 

 February 1st. 



Robert Miller Christy. Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland. 



Do the Blackbird X Ttirdus meruld\ and the Thrush [Z! musicus\ ever inter- 

 breed? Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc, 1884, iii. 588-596. 



Instances cited from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Northumberland ; and 

 opinion expressed that they do occasionally interbreed. 



R. M. Christy. Lancashire. 

 Hybrids between Blackbird {Ttirdus meriila] and Thrush [T. vnisiais\. 

 Zool., April, p. 146. 



Quotes the Ormskirk instance recorded in Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist, for 

 August, 1834. 



W. Eagle Clarke and W. Dexison Roebuck. Yorkshire. 

 Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire. Zool., May, pp. 171-184 ; 



Naturalist, April and May, ix. 147-157 and 167-176. 



Voluminous notes, supplementary to the writers' Handbook of the Verte- 

 brate Fauna of Yorkshire (1881), and including a bird \_Eniberiza ruslka] new 

 to the fauna. 



[Lord] Clifton. Yorkshire. 

 The Arrival of Woodcocks [Scolopax rusticula]. Field, October 25th, p. 586. 

 October nth was date of arrival in North Yorkshire. 



Great Grey Shrike [Laiihis excubitor'] and Chaffinches {Fringilla ccckbs]. 

 Field, December 27th, p. 896. 



Remarks on the punctuality of the Shrike's autumnal appearance at Spurn 

 and other places. 



John Cordeaux. Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire. 



Keport on the Migration of Birds in the spring and autumn of 1883. 

 8vo, 1884. Reprinted in Land and Water, August i6th, p. 173; August 

 23rd, p. 199; and August 30th. p. 212. 



Pages 33-62 are devoted to the East Coast of England, and contain not 

 only full notes on the migratory movements of birds as observed at the Light- 

 houses and Light-ships, but also the individual observations of Messrs. T. H. 

 Nelson, C. Donald Thompson, Matthew Bailey, and William Eagle Clarke. 

 The information is given under the head of the species, of which about 133 

 are included. 



Report of the Committee . . for . . obtaining . . observations on 



the Migration of Birds at Light-houses and Light-ships 



Rep. Brit. Assoc., Southport 1883, pp. 229-233. 



The abstract read before the Biological Section of the British Association. 

 The Sea Birds at Flamborough. Naturalist, January, ix. 93-95. Yorkshire. 

 The substance of the writer's remarks in reporting for the Vertebrate Section 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Filey, on the nth of June, 1883. In 

 addition to the list of Sea Birds observed on the cliffs, notes are given on 

 migratory movements as observed in autumn, 1882. ♦ 



Note by Mr. Cordeaux. Zool., February, p. 61. 



On his experience of the Little Gull {Lartis minutus) near Flamborough. 

 Arrival of Summer Birds. Field, April 12th, p. 499. Lincolnshire. 



The Swallow \_Hiru.ndo rustica\ arrived at Great Cotes. Ulceby, on the 5th 

 of April. 



Naturalist, 



