Field yotcs. 



the vase has two cord impressions running" round it, precisely 

 similar to that on the vase from Baildon Moor. In no case, 

 however, is an East Yorkshire urn ornamented by the herring- 

 bone design exhibited on the Bradford vase, the two examples 

 from East Yorkshire herewith reproduced being ornamented by 

 cord impressions and thumb nail imprints respectively. Vases 

 with similar ornamentation to that on the Bradford urn are 

 illustrated in both ' British Barrows ' and ' Ten Years' Diggings.' 



An examination and comparison of the cinerary urns figured 

 in the works of Messrs. Mortimer, Greenwell, Bates, and others 

 would unquestionably lead to interesting- results, and it is to be 

 hoped that someone will follow up this line of research. 



FIELD NOTES. 



BIRDS. 



Bird Notes from Easington. — A Kingfisher was killed by 

 flying against the Spurn Lighthouse on 4th May. This is the 

 first such occurrence for this species that I remember. A Grey 

 Phalarope was seen at Easington on 6th May. I heard the 

 Cuckoo for the first time this season on 25th April ; saw the 

 first pair of Wheatears on 24th April, and the first Chiffchaff on 

 26th April. A Lesser Tern was killed by the telegraph wires at 

 Spurn on 7th May. — P. W. Lotex, Easington, loth May 1905. 



The Maliard and Her Young. — So far as my notes go 

 I cannot discover that anyone has put on record how the duck 

 removes her young. The bird must have been viewed many 

 times in the act, but everyone seems to have thought the occur- 

 rence too common to record. I have seen the mother bird in 

 the act of removing' her duckling" three times. On the last 

 occasion, while out with my son Dennis on Cadney Beck, 20th 

 August igo2, a wild duck flew past us going up stream. I paid 

 no attention to such a common sight as a passing duck. When 

 the lad called out, ' She has something in her bill,' I turned the 

 field-glass on her and could distinctly see the duckling", only just 

 hatched, she was bearing" from the nest to some place of security 

 not far from some quiet water. Just in the same way the mother 

 duck will carry her eg"gs from the nest if she has more than she 

 can cover (?). I have never seen this, but old Tom Tacey, of 

 Ashby Decoy, did frequently during his life-long experience. 

 The egg to be removed is left above the felted quilt of feathers 



Naturalist, 



