1 86 E. CHAPMAN : LIST OF WENSLEYDALE BIRDS. 



White throat. Summer resident ; common. 



Lesser Whitethroat. Summer resident, but rather rare ; breeds 

 occasionally in Freeholders' Wood, Carperby. 



Wood Warbler. Summer resident ; frequent. 



Willow Warbler. Summer resident ; common. 



Chiffchaff. Summer resident, but rather rare and uncertain in its 

 appearance. 



Wren. Resident. 



Goldcrest. Resident • frequent, breeding in many larch plantations, 



especially in the upper part of the dale. 

 Ringdove. Resident ; common. 



Stockdove. Resident ; frequent ; breeding in the scars of Ox-close, 



Carperby. 

 Pheasant. Resident ; common. 



Black Grouse. Rare. A female shot in High Gill, near Aysgarth, 

 by W. H. Tomlinson, Esq., in 1880. Occasionally seen on the 

 Greets Moor, above Woodhall. Not known to breed in the 

 district. 



Red Grouse. Resident ; common. 

 Partridge. Resident; common. 



Quail. One obtained in 1884, on a nest of ten eggs, in a meadow 



field near Carperby. 

 Golden Plover. Resident ; common. 



Dotterel. Now rare, but fifteen or twenty years ago used to breed 

 on High Stake. I have never seen the eggs myself, but I am 

 told by Mr. Arthur Sayer, who was shepherd seventeen years on 

 the moor, that he used to search for them in company with the 

 keepers, who sold the eggs to collectors. The last he saw was 

 about fourteen years ago. Mr. H. Hopper, of Raydaleside, went 

 every year to shoot these birds for their feathers, which are highly 

 prized by anglers. I shot a young one in 1865, on Scarrowfells, 

 Carperby ; it was among a flock of Golden Plovers. 



Lapwing. Summer resident ; common. 



Oyster catcher. Casual. One shot in Bishopdale in 1881. Seen 

 nearly every year by the river, above Carperby, and about 

 Middleham. 



Heron. Frequently visit Locker Tarn, Carperby, and Semerwater, 



and various parts of the Yore. 

 Bittern. Very rare. One shot at Semerwater in 1869, by Mr. P. 



Beresford, and another shot on Preston Moor, by Lord Bolton 



about 1879. 

 Curlew. Resident ; common on the moors. 



Naturalist, 



