ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE. 



Swift (Cypselus apus). April 26th, Flamborough Head, where 

 Mr. Bailey says he never remembers them so early; 27th, Tadcaster, 

 Yorkshire (B. B. Thompson); 28th, Nottingham (F. B. Whitlock) ; 

 30th, Shireoaks, Notts. (J. Whitaker), and Masham (T. Carter) ; 

 May I St, Barnsley (T. Lister). 



An earher record, April 25th, Welshpool (T.). 



Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). April 17th, Flamborough Head 

 (M. Bailey); i8th, Spurn Head (P. Lawton), Luddendenfoot (F. D. 

 Clayton), and Carlisle (T. Duckworth) ; 19th, Ripley, Yorkshire 

 (C. E. Avignon) and Barnsley (T. Lister); 20th, Wakefield (E. B. 

 Wrigglesworth) ; 21st, Rotherham (E. W. West); 22nd, Bourne, 

 Lincolnshire (J. F. Bacon) ; 23rd, North Cheshire (T. A. Coward) ; 

 24th, Harrogate (P. Inchbald) and Beverley (J. C. Swailes) ; 25th, 

 Halifax (C. C. Hanson) and near Ripon (J. Ingleby) ; 26th, 

 Nottingham (F. B. Whitlock) and Wilsden, Yorkshire (J. Hey) ; 

 27th, Masham (T. Carter); 28th, Brough (L. H. West) and near 

 Hahfax (F. G. S. Rawson); 29th, North Stainley, near Ripon (Rev. 

 R. A. Summerfield). 



Earhest record for south of England, April loth, Modbury, South 

 Devon (G.C.G.). 



Turtle Dove (Turtur communis). April 30th, Shireoaks (J. 

 Whitaker). 



Landrail (Crex pratensis). April 20th, Barnsley (T. Lister) ; 

 2ist, Nottingham (F. B. Whitlock); 25th, North Cheshire (T. A. 

 Coward); 27th, Tadcaster (B. B. Thompson); 28th, Masham (T. 

 Carter); 29th, Nidderdale (W. Storey); May ist, Beverley (J. C. 

 Swailes). 



Earliest record for south of England, April i6th, Alton St. 

 Pancras, near Dorchester (R. E. Saunders). 



Sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucos). April i6th, Masham (T. 

 Carter) ; i8th, Nidderdale (W. Storey) ; 23rd, Nottingham (F. B. 

 Whitlock); 24th, Carhsle (T. Duckworth); 27th, Beverley (J. C. 

 Swailes) and Tadcaster, Yorkshire (B. B. Thompson) ; 29th, North 

 Cheshire (T. A. Coward) ; May 8th, near Halifax (F. G. S. Rawson). 



Lesser Tern (Sterna miuuta). April 15th, Spurn Head (P. W. 

 Lawton). 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTE. 



Night-jar at Eccles. — As I was walking home from Manchester, and 

 had got into Eccles close to the railway, I noticed a bird fly over me. I thought 

 I knew the flight, and saw it directly afterwards against the sky. ' It turned out to 

 be a Night-jar. I think the locality, in the centre of a noisy town, rather an 

 unusual place for a bird of this species to be feeding in. — James M. Chadwick, 

 Eccles, near Manchester, September 9th, 1884. 



June 1885. 



