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years ago must have been an ideal home for a naturalist and 

 sportsman. By the Man by Woodlands I mean the stretch of 

 sandy limestone covers from Appleby on the north to Manton 

 Common on the south. They have been in existence in one 

 shape or another for ages, as the old oaks near Manby Hall 

 show. 



The Rev. H. C. Brewster, B.A., most kindly supplied me 

 with the South Kelsey notes. Mr. J. J. Baldwin Young-, 

 M.B.O.U., was equally good-natured for the Claxby and 

 Market Rasen neighbourhood. Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., acted the Good Samaritan for Gainsborough; and my 

 friend Mr. George Hunsley supplied a number for Kirton-in- 

 Lindsey. When I do not add the division numbers it is to 

 be understood that the bird is found in all of them. I quote the 

 late John Cordeaux's two works, the ' Humber District Birds,' 

 1872, and the i Humber District Bird Pamphlet,' 1899, as 

 ' Cordeaux, 1872 ' or ' 1899,' as the case may be. All other 

 references I print in full. My cases of stuffed skins and 

 collection of eggs have been sold some time now, but could 

 be traced, if required, I have no doubt. At the end of this paper 

 I hope to publish a list of the dialect names for our local birds ; 

 here I follow the English and scientific nomenclature of the 

 second edition of Saunders' ' Manual,' 1899. 

 Mistle - Thrush. Tardus viscivorus Linn. Common. It 

 builds year after year in the same spot ; in one case for 

 thirteen years continuously. The suitability of the place 

 was the attraction. In another case it was the same tree, 

 but never the same exact position for years. 

 Song-Thrush. Turdus musicus Linn. Common. One nested 

 between the spokes of a cart wheel, which had been left ten 

 days in a distant field. A hen bird was found by the fish- 

 pond at Bottesford Moors after I cleaned it out, 13th June 

 1893, with its head trapped in the shell of the Great Fresh- 

 water Mussel (Anodonta cygnea Linn.), which abounds there. 

 It was dead, and had laid an egg. A nest, with a pure 

 white ep-of and three others of the natural colour, 22nd May 

 1894. 



Redwing 1 . Turdus iliacus Linn. Common every winter. They 

 die by hundreds in a long frost and snowstorm. 



Fieldfare. Turdus pilaris Linn. Common in the winter. 

 While out Woodpigeon shooting during the Christ mas 

 holiday of 1873 or 1874, the Vicar fired at a flight of Field- 



1902 June 1. 



