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NOTES ORNITHOLOGY. 



Tufted Duck. Rare. One shot in 1878 on the river, above Yore 



Mills, Aysgarth. 

 Golden-eye. Occasionally visits Semerwater. 

 Goosander. Casual at Semerwater. 



Red-throated Diver. Rare. One was shot on Semerwater in 1869, 

 by Mr. P. Beresford. 



Gannet. A young one in first year's plumage was caught in Bishop- 

 dale, in 1873. 



Common Tern Casual. 



Black-headed Gull. Occasional visitor. One shot at Woodhall, 1879. 

 Common Gull. Occasional visitor. 

 Lesser Black-backed Gull. Casual. 

 Kittiwake. Casual. 



Storm Petrel. One was picked up alive in Leyburn Railway Station, 

 by Mr. F. Chapman, Thornton Rust, and is now in his possession. 



NOTES— ORNITHOLOG Y. 



Arrival of Summer Birds at Flamborough. — April 24th, three 

 Swallows seen. April 26th, several Redstarts and Pied Flycatqhers. May nth, 

 Turtle Dove seen. May 13th, 14th, and 15th, great arrivals of the above, with 

 the wind north-east ; never saw more. — Matthew Bailey, Flamborough. 



Woodcock, "Wryneck, and Hawfinch in Nidderdale.— I have 



just had brought me a nest of Woodcock's {Scolopax riisticula) eggs taken near Pateley 

 by a friend, who also saw a brood of young ones near the same place on May 7th. 



I have also seen a Wryneck ( Yunx torquil/a), which was caught at Fellbeck on 

 May 3rd. It is the only one I ever saw in Nidderdale. 



There has been for several days past [April 15th] now, a Hawfinch \Cocco- 

 thraustes vulgaris'] flying about Harefield. Several persons have seen it. I have 

 never seen one here before.— Wm. Storey, Pateley Bridge, May 13th, 1886. 



HOW to form a Rookery. — Wishing to form a rookery in a plantation 

 of poplars and Spanish chestnuts which joins my garden, I had some baskets of 

 the shape of nests put at the top of the chestnuts. The rooks came and looked at 

 these, and sat upon them every spring, but never seemed inclined to stay and nest. 

 Two years ago, knowing rooks were very fond of the yellow grease used on 

 railways, I had the basket nests filled with it. It soon attracted them in great 

 numbers, and as they consumed the grease, I replenished the nests, taking care 

 they were never without. The result was, sixteen pairs nested, choosing, however, 

 what is rather odd, the tall poplars, which are very difficult for them to build in, 

 owing to the branches being so open, in preference to the chestnuts. — H. G. 

 Tomlinson, The Woodlands, Burton-on-Trent, March 8th, 1886. 



ISTotes on the Birds of the Derbyshire Peak.— I can confirm 

 Mr. Whitlock, in his Birds of the Derbyshire Peak, as to the Peregrine Falcon 

 being found there. A few years ago, when shooting on Kinder Scout, I saw 

 five Grouse fly from the end of the Scout, when a Peregrine came out from the 

 middle of the rocks, and fastened itself on one of the Grouse, and the two birds 

 came tumbling down one over the other into the hollow below. I made all speed 

 possible with the man who was with me, but the Falcon was away before I could 

 get within 100 yards of them, although they fell in deep bracken. I was about to 

 gather the Grouse when away it flew, but fortunately I stopped it, and on close 

 examination the only mark I could find was the flesh on the right leg considerably 

 torn.— Johnson Wilkinson, Huddersfield, May 3rd, 1886. 



Naturalist, 



