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NOTES on YORKSHIRE BIRDS. 



Occurrences of Uncommon Migrant Birds at Spurn.— A fine 



Bluethroat {Cyanecala suecica?), a male, I should think, was seen here on 

 the 10th of September. A nice lot of Siskins [Chrysomitris spinus) were 

 seen about here on the 14th September, and a $ Great Spotted Woodpecker 

 {Dendrocopus major) on 25th September. A Common Buzzard (Buteo bateo) 

 was shot near Easington on the 23rd of September, and a Short-eared Owl 

 (Asio brachvotus) on 20th September. — Philip W. Loten, Easington, 12th 

 October 1901. 



Kingfisher Breeding at Huddersfield.— Two pairs of Kingfishers 



{Alcedo ispida) have bred (the nests being known) in this immediate district 

 during the past season, and probably others also nested in the district. In 

 one case the nest was disturbed just as the young were fully feathered, but 

 as they all flew out of the nest, it may reasonably be hoped they were none 

 the worse for their premature dispersal from home. The species has again 

 several times visited the ponds in my own grounds this year, and on one 

 occasion two were seen there together. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, 

 near Huddersfield, 19th September 190 1. 



'Curious Site for a Thrush's Nest' at Netherton Station.— 



It is, I think, worth placing on record that the pair of Thrushes (or presum- 

 ablv the same pair) which built their nest and reared their young in such 

 a curious place at Xetherton Railway , Station, near Huddersfield, in 1900 

 (see ' Naturalist,' 1900, pp. 164 and 240), returned to exactly the same spot 

 in the spring of this rear. On 1st April I noticed them busy building their 

 nest, and by the 10th they were sitting keenly on their eggs, taking no 

 notice either of the trains or numerous passengers, with all the attendant 

 noise and commotion ; nor at night of the bright light from the large lamp 

 close beside them. Thanks to the protection afforded by the station master 

 and his assistants, I believe the young again all got safely away ; but the 

 parent Thrushes did not — as I rather expected they would — rear their second 

 brood on the same site. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hail, Netherton, 

 Huddersfield, 25th October 1901. 



Green Woodpecker Nesting in Harewood Park. — I was fortunate 

 in meeting with the above bird in Harewood Park on the 8th of June this 

 year. My attention was arrested by seeing some new chippings at the foot of 

 a large Ash tree, and while examining them a further shower came down. 

 On looking up I discovered a hole fully 50 feet up, and, on casting a stone, 

 out flew a bird about the size of a Jay, which I had no difficulty in identify- 

 ing as a Green Woodpecker {Gecinus viridis). It soon confirmed this by 

 uttering its peculiar laughing cry, which strongly resembled the laugh of 

 a hvsterical female. This it repeated on several occasions and came back 

 several times while I was' in the vicinity. I paid a visit two weeks later 

 with my climbers and a rope, and, although I got partly up the tree, the 

 bend was at such an angle that I had to give up the attempt to reach the 

 nest, much as I should have liked to see it. — Thos. Raine, Woodland View, 

 Chapel- Allerton, 25th September 1901. 



NOTES and NEWS. 



We understand from Mr. H. Wallis Kew that since the publication of his 

 paper on 'Lincolnshire Pseudoscorpions : with an Account of the Associa- 

 tion of such Animals with other Arthropods.' in the July ' Naturalist,' he 

 has received several items of additional information, and that he is 

 engaged upon a supplementary paper, which will be offered to this journal 

 in due time. We hope those of our readers who have seen Chelifers on 

 Flies' legs, or other similar associations, will communicate their observa- 

 tions to Mr. Kew, who may be addressed at 157, Ferme Park Road, 

 Hornsey, London, N ^ 



