Notes of ]' orkshirc Hirds. 
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Yellows, almost white in fact — this seems to Capt. Rattigan 
rather odd, and he will be interested to watch development, also 
to see what their plumage is like after the moult. 
Lavf.ndkr Finciiks {La^i!;o)iosticta cacnilca). and I)u- 
frksne's Waxbili.s (Bstrilda diifvcsni) are still nesting, but do 
not advance beyond that stage. 
The fifteen Californian Quail {Lol^lwriyx calif uDtiai ) 
cliicks hatched out are doing well and growing strongly. 
The jorobable reason why Capt. Rattigan has suffered loss 
from the recent rainstorms is, I think, owing to the bushes he 
planted last fall having died — the dead bushes not supplying 
sufficient protection against the wet. I have often had birds 
(small FringUlidac)^ roost out during nights of heavy rain in 
Cupressus and other evergreen buslies, with their iilumage quite 
dry the ne.xt morning and not one whit the worse for their 
experience, and this, not only in the summer season, but in t!; 
winter also. 
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Notes of Yorkshire Birds. 
By H. Carr Walker. 
Having been asked to make a note of the dates upon 
which migratory and other birds arrived here in the Spring 1 
give a list below : 
Missel Thrush — January 31st. 
Green Woodpecker — February 6th. 
Yellow-Hammer — February 24th. 
Pied Wagtails — February 24th. 
Cuckoo — March nth. 
Greenfincli — March nth. 
liullfinch — March 20th. 
Tree Pipit— .April 5th. 
Grey Wagtail — April 6th. 
Rosy Pastor— April 8th. 
Swallow — April 23rd. 
Redpoll — April 23rd. 
Corncrake — May ist. 
Spotted l'"lycatcher — May 12th. 
Willow Warbler — May 12th. 
White-throat — May 12th. 
Kingfisher — May i8th (nest). 
