224 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1884: BIRDS. 



Howard Saunders. Yorkshire. 

 Puffinus griseus at Redcar, Yorkshire. P. Z. S., 1884, p. 150; Field, 

 March 8th, p. 340 ; Zool.. April, p. 157. 



A Dusky Shearwater — Puffinus griseus (Gm.) — shot off Redcar by T. H, 

 Nelson, was exhibited to the Zoological Society. 

 Henry Seebohm. Cheshire. Cumberland, Derby, Durham, Lincolnshire, 



Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire. 

 A History of British Birds. Part IV. 



Comprises introduction to Vol. II , the families Cypselidae, Caprimulgidae, 

 Meropidoe. Upupidae, Alcedinid^e, Picidse, Cuculidse, Columbidae, Phasianid^e, 

 Pelargidze (Herons), Pallidse, Gruidae, and Otididse. 

 "Henry Seebohm. Yorkshire, 

 [On the occurrence of the American Kestrel {Falco sparverius) near Helmsley, 

 N.E. Yorkshire.] P. Zool. S., 1884, p. 45. 

 [Henry Seebohm.] Derbyshire, Northumberland. 



The Davis lectures. Field, July 12th, p. 12; and Land and Water, same 

 date, p. 33. 



The lecture on ' Birds' Nests ' included descriptions of a trip to a Derbyshire 

 moor and to the Fai-ne Islands. 

 Henry H. Slater. Northumberland. 

 The Ornithology of Riding Mill-on-Tyne and Neighbourhood. Zool., March, 

 pp. 92-106; April, pp. 142-3. 



A full list, including 124 birds. The second paper supplements the first by 

 describing the district in which the observations were made. 



Yorkshire. 



Barred Warbler '^Sylvia nisoria] in Yorkshire. Zool., Dec, pp. 489 and 493. 

 The same record as given in the Naturalist for November, p. 91. 

 James Sj.iail. Northumberland. 

 Herons and Border Heronries. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, x. 330-334. 



The Northumberland heronries, not counting isolated nests, are eight in 

 number, and are thus distributed : at Bolam-on-the-Wansbeck, 30 nests ; at 

 Capheaton, a few nests only ; at Sweethope, near the source of the Wansbeck 

 (number of nests not given) ; at Chillingham, many nests ; at Unthank on 

 South Tyne, about 14 nests ; at Harbottle on the Coquet, 20 nests ; and at 

 Felton Park, on the same river, 17 nests many years ago. 

 C. C. Smith (Skipton). Yorkshire, 

 Confidence of Redbreast {Erithacus rzibecula]. Nat. World, July, i. 119. 



A sitting bird allowed itself to be touched with the hand. 

 The Tameness of Kestrel Hawk {Tinmincuhis alaudarius'\. Nat. World, 

 July, i. 119. 



A female sitting, at Bradley, near Skipton, allowed itself to be lifted off its 

 nest with a stick and replaced. 



E. Spink. 



Early Nesting. Nat. Hist. Journ., February 15th, viii. 18. Yorkshire. 



Near Selby, a Robin \_Erithaais rubectila], January 1 8th. 

 James Stamper, Yorkshire ? 



Curious Variety of the Lap-wing [ Vanelhis milgaris\ Field, March ist, p. 280. 

 The wings and upper part of the breast light brown or fawn colour, and the 

 back, head, and lower part of the breast cream colour. It was afterwards 

 shot and preserved. 



W. Storey. * Yorkshire. 



Dotterel \_Eudro?)iias mo7'inelhis'\ near Leeds. Field, September i8th, p. 530. 

 One shot on Pateley Moor, September loth — its only occurrence in the 

 district. Editor quotes Clarke and Roebuck's observations on the species. 



Naturalist, 



