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W, Storey. Yorkshire. 

 The Stonechat \_Pratincola ricbicold\ in Nidderdale. Field, October i8th, p. 530. 

 One shot by Mr, E. E. Cass, at Backstone Gill, near Pateley Bridge, October 

 7th. Writer quotes Lucas' Studies in Nidderdale — and Editorial note is 

 appended. 



R. J. Streatfeild. Yorkshire. 

 A Large Pheasant \_Pkasiamis colchicus\. Field, November 22nd, p. 729. 



A male killed at Rossington, near Bawtry, November 13th, weighing 

 5 lb. oz. 



F. R. SuRTEES. Lincolnshire. 

 Derivation of the name Knot {^Tringa camit2is\ Field, January 26th, p. 99. 

 ' There can be no reason, then, to doubt that, in Canute's days, they 

 abounded in the fens of Cambridge, Lincoln, and Norfolk.' [On migration and 

 in winter.] 



M. E. T. 



Geese Migrating-. Sci. Goss., April, p. 74. Cheshire. 



Wrenbury, Cheshire. 

 E. V. Thompson. Yorkshire. 

 Grey Phalarope {^Plialaropits fidicarius\ in Yorkshire. ZooL, January, p. 31. 

 A mature bird, in full plumage, shot in Cayton Bay, near Scarborough, 

 December 6th, 1883. 



Richard H, Thompson. Lancashire. 

 Surf Scoter \_CEde}?na perspiciUaia\ on the Coast of Lancashire. ZooL, 

 January, p. 29. 



A fine female CEdemia perspicillata shot December 9th, 1882, in the Ribble 

 estuary, off Lytham. Named by A. G. More. 



£T. Thompson]. Cumberland. 

 [Bird-notes]. Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumb., Durh. and New., Vol. viii. p. 2. 

 A nest with the unusual number of ten eggs of the Sparrow-hawk \_Accipiter 

 nisiis\ taken near Gilsland, April 1878. In the spring of 1879 a pair of 

 Long-eared Owls \_Asio oHis\ reared their young in the same nest. 



John E. Tinkler. Yorkshire. 

 Ornithological Notes from N.W. Yorkshire. ZooL, April, pp. 131 -139. 



The notes, which refer to numerous species, given in systematic order, were 

 all made in Upper Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, with one or two casual 

 references to Wensleydale. 



Notes from N.W. Yorkshire. ZooL, May, p. 196. 



Corrects his error as to the Common Gull {Larus cajms) breeding in Arken- 

 garthdale, and states that the birds noted were probably Blackheaded Gulls 

 {Larus ridibiindus). 



H. B. Tristram. Durham, Northumberland. 



Address to the Members of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, . . . 

 April 15th, 1880. N. H. Trans. Northumb., Durham, & Newc, viii., 1-12. 



Notices of birds observed at the field meetings of 1879 — viz., at Rothbury, 

 Northumberland: at Holy Island and Bamborough; at Cornhill, Northum- 

 berland ; and at Blanchland and Benfieldside, Co. Durham. 



Julian G. Tuck. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull [Larus fusais'] on the Yorkshire Coast. ZooL, 

 December, p. 485. 



On the improbability of the species breeding, as suggested in Mr. T. Carter's 

 note on egging on the Yorkshire coasts. 



May 1885. 



