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FIELD NOTES. 



MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 

 Gamekeeper's Hoard near Scarborough. — At the meeting^ 

 of the Yorkshire NaturaHsts' Union, held at Scarborough in 

 May last, a gamekeeper's hoard was noticed at Suffield contain- 

 the following-: — Ten Magpies, two 'Norwegian Crows,' five 

 Carrion Crows, one Kestrel, four Jackdaws, 29 Weasels, one 

 Stoat, and a Cat's tail. — T. S. 



BIRDS. 



Occurrence of the Kentish Plover at Teesmouth. — On 



8th June 1902, Mr. C. Braithwaite, of Seaton Carew, when near 

 the North Gare Breakwater, noticed amongst a flock of the 

 small migratory Ringed Plovers a bird of smaller and lighter 

 build, with no distinct w^ing bars, which uttered a note some- 

 what like a Sanderling's. A close approach to the stranger, in 

 order to note the distinctions in plumage, was out of the 

 question, as its companions were as usual wild. Mr. T. H. 

 Nelson was apprised of its appearance, and we looked for it on 

 the day following, but without success, and its identity remained 

 uncertain. On 20th May of the present year, however, Mr. 

 Braithwaite, when near the same place, saw a bird in company 

 with two breeding Ringed Plovers, w^hich uttered exactly the 

 same note as the individual previously noticed, and after 

 separating it from its congeners he had no doubt as to its being 

 identical with the 1902 bird, except that the patch on the neck 

 was not so dark. It was afterwards found dead near the break- 

 water, and proves to be an adult female Kentish Plover, which 

 is, as far as can be ascertained, the first example for Durham.- — - 

 C. E. MiLBURN, Middlesbrough. 







SPIDERS. 



Records of Yorkshire Spiders. — In the recently-issued 

 paper ' On New and Rare British Spiders,''"" by the Rev. O. 

 Pickard Cambridge, three species are, by some mischance, 

 wrongly stated to have been taken in Yorkshire. As at some 

 future date a list of our county's spiders will doubtless be com- 

 piled, it will be as well, in order to prevent the perpetuation of 

 the error, to make the necessary corrections in the pages of 

 ' The Naturalist.' Styloctetor penicillatus Westr. and Tapifiocyba 

 subitanea Cb. were captured near Hexham in August 1902, and 

 Oxyptila sanctuaria Cb. on Conway Mountain and at Gogarth, 

 in North Wales, in August 1901. — Wm. Falconer, Slaithwaite. 

 Trans. Dorset. Field Club. 



1904 September i. 



