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ALBINO CARRION CROW IN YORKSHIRE. 



WALTER WILSON. 



This was reported in * The Naturalist ' for October 1906, and 

 May 1907, and in ' Birds of Yorkshire,' Vol. L, page 242. 



The last report recorded in ' The Naturalist ' was from 

 Barden, April 3rd, 1907, since then it appears to have frequented 

 the Hetton Moors, between Rylstone and Malham, during the 

 summer of 1907, where I saw it in company with another crow, 

 probably its mate. 



In August of that year it was shot at several times by grouse 

 shooters on the moors, but always escaped, a fate which did not 

 favour its mate, which was shot towards the end of that month. 



Albino Carrion Crow. 



During the winter of 1907-8 it appears to have retired to 

 the Fountain Fell district, along with a number of other crows. 



This last summer (1908), it again made its appearance in 

 the Winterburn district, but this time it was not as bold, and 

 escaped from many attempts to secure it, until finally it was 

 shot in May, near Eshton Tarn, by a keeper of Sir M. Wilson, 

 Bart, who had been baiting for it with dead rabbits for some 

 weeks. Sir M.W.Wilson of Eshton Hall, has had the bird set up for 

 his private collection. The measurements are : length, 17 J inches; 

 bill, 2i inches; wing (expanse), 12J inches; tarsus, 2|- inches. 



1909 April I. 



