270 bibliography: birds, 1885. 



[P. L. Sclater. Yorkshire. 

 [Curious Duck shot in Yorkshire ; Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on 

 a curious Duck shot on Lord Bolton's estate in Yorkshire, in January 1885, 

 which was apparently referable to the Common Scaup {Fuligida martlet), but 

 was remarkable for having the broad and clean white front of the female, and 

 the black head of the ordinary male of this species]. P.Z.S., March 17th, 

 1885, p. 246 ; and Zook, May 1885, p. 193. 



Henry Seebohm. All the Counties. 



A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. 



Parts v and vi, concluding the work, dealing with the Orders Limicolce, 

 Gavice, Tubinares, Pygopodes, Anseres, and Steganopodes. Many references to 

 North of England. 



TH. Seebohm.] Lancashire or Westmoreland. 



[Curious pale-buff variety of the Bed Grouse ( Tetrao scoticus) ; shot on a 

 moor near Morecambe Bay, October i6th, 1884, by Mr. Gray Grayrigge. 

 Had been seen for three seasons on the moor.] P.Z.S., February 3rd, 

 1885, p. 66. 



Henry Seebohm. Derbyshire, Northumberland. 



The Nests and Eggs of Birds [including notes from the Derbyshire Grouse 

 Moors and the Fame Islands]. Trans. Herts. N. H. Soc, December 1885, 

 iii, 255-260. 



John Sim. Northumberland. 

 Objects of interest in our Pit District [of Northumberland; several birds 

 mentioned casually]. Sci. Goss., February 1885, pp. 31-32. 



[H. H. Slater.] Yorkshire. 

 [Barred Warbler — Sylvia nisoria — on the Yorkshire Coast, August 28th, 1884.] 

 P.Z.S., November 4th, 1884, p. 477. 



C. C. Smith. Yorkshire. 

 [Birds] at Skipton-in- Craven [Popularly written notes]. Nat. World, August 

 1885, pp. I49-I5 1 - 



Thomas Southwell. Yorkshire. 



Unrecorded Occurrence of the Whiskered Terns \_Hydrochelidon 



hybrida, shot on the Swale at Hornby Castle in 1842]. Zook, December 

 1885, p. 481. 



R. Standen. Lancashire. 

 [Black-headed] Gulls [Lai-ics ridibundus\ feeding on Moths [near Preston ; 

 gullery at Winmarleigh Moss]. Nat. World, October 1885, p. 198. 



Henry Stevenson. Northumberland, Durham. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk [Refers to the breeding of the true Rock 

 Dove {Columba livia) in Durham and Northumberland]. Zook, September 

 1885, p. 323. 



J. A. Erskine- Stuart. Yorkshire, Lancashire. 



Herons and Heronries [mentions five of the Yorkshire Heronries, also the one 

 at Rawcliffe Hall, Lancashire, with 20 nests]. Nat. World, November 1885, 

 pp. 204-5. 



B. B. L. T[all]., Secretary. Yorkshire. 

 Bootham Natural History Club, York, [Kingfisher — Alcedo ispida — reported 



as seen on the Foss]. Nat. Hist. Journ., December 15th, 1885, p. 182. 



C. Donald Thompson. Durham. 

 White Grouse [Lagopus scoticus. An albino was shot on the Edmondbyers 



Moor, near Stanhope, co. Durham, on the 7th December, 1884. A few 

 feathers sent to the Editor are pronounced by him as scarcely to be termed 

 white, being smoke-coloured]. Field, January 31st, 1885, p. 134. 



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