Wild Bird Protection in Yorkshire. 



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Dunlin. 



Goldfinch. 



Water-Rail. 



Pied Flycatcher. 



Redpoll. 



Land-Rail. 



Pereg^rine Falcon. 



Tawny Owl. 



Ring- Plover. 



Great Crested Grebe. 



Barn Owl. 



Snipe. 



Little Grebe. 



Long--eared Owl. 



Woodcock. 



King-fisher. 



Short-eared Owl. 



Green Woodpecker. 



Harrier. 



Kestrel. 



Great Spotted ,, 



Hobby. 



Merlin. 



LesserSpotted 



Heron. 



Raven. 



Wryneck. 



Nig-htjar. 



Mallard. 



Grey Wag-tail. 



Nighting-ale. 



Teal. 



White Wag-tail. 



Bearded Tit. 



Wig^eon, 



Yellow Wag-tail. 



Nuthatch. 



Shoveller. 



Black-headed Gull. 



House Martin. 



Pochard. 



Kittiwake. 



Sand Martin. 



Tufted Duck. 



Reed Warbler. 



Swallow. 



Shelduck. 



Terns (all species). 



Swift. 



Turtle Dove. 





(6) Sunday shooting' to be prohibited throug-hout the county. 



(7) The areas at present proclaimed, viz., Spurn Promontory 



and Hornsea Mere, to be further protected for a period 

 of five years from the dating- of this order. 



(8) That in the neighbourhood of Speeton, Buckton, Bempton, 



and Flamborough CHffs no Guillemots, Razorbills, or 

 Puffins shall be shot between the last day of February 

 and the first day of September. 



(9) That the other two Riding- County Councils are being 



memorialised in similar manner to the foregfoing. 

 (10) Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask that under 

 the circumstances, the Council will make the necessary 

 applications. 



Signed on behalf of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 



G. W. Lamplugh, President. 

 T. Sheppard, Hon. Sec' 

 As a result of this petition, a meeting of the representatives 

 of the three Councils was held, at which a report was drawn up, 

 a copy of which we have been favoured with. It is as follows : — 

 'The Report of the Representatives of the County Councils 

 of the North, East, and West Ridings of Yorkshire on 

 the Petition of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union presented 

 to the three County Councils. 

 At a meeting held at the Station Hotel, York, on Wednesday, 

 the 27th September 1905, present : — Mr. W. H. St. Quintin 

 (Chairman), Mr. D. F. Burton, East Riding ; Mr. E. R. Turton, 

 North Riding ; Mr. William Chadwick, Mr. Charles Denton 

 Nicholson, West Riding; 



1905 December i. 



