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arrangement we may offer that will give the same approxi- 
mation to the numbers recorded. Of summer visitants of 
the warbler family we number 14 ; of other summer visitants, 
19 ; of winter visitants, 29 ; of resident birds or partial 
migrants, 102; and of occasional visitants or stragglers, 19. 
A few of the rarer birds seen in the Barnsley district by 
various observers, from 1833 to the present time : — The 
Peregrine Falcon — Horsecar Wood, Redmires, Walton, 
some years ago ; Hobby — occasionally seen now ; Osprey — 
two in Stainbro' Park (now at the Hall,) one at Worsbro' 
Reservoir ; Kite — Horsecar and Lunn Woods, now extinct ; 
Common Buzzard— one at Cannon Hall, and one at Woolley 
Park ; Rough-legged Buzzard — Cannon Hall ; Honey 
Buzzard— Wharncliffe 1840, Chevet Park 1857 ; Hen 
Harrier — Walton, nearly extinct ; Little Owl — Wharncliffe; 
Chough — near Sheffield ; Great Grey Shrike— Keresforth, 
Ethersley Wood, and Dearneside; Red-backed Shrike — 
Cliff Wood ; Pied Flycatcher — Stainbro' Park, each summer, 
Wharncliffe; Wood Lark — Stainbro' Park, extinct in this 
district; Bearded Tit — Walton, and near Sheffield ; Bohemian 
Waxwing" — Cannon Hall and Carr Green ; Common Cross- 
bill — Silkstone Fall Woods, Hoyland, &c. ; Hawfinch — 
Cannon Hall ; Twite ; Siskin — Dearnside, &c. ; Barred 
Woodpecker — Wentworth Park; Wryneck — Worsbro', 
Silkstone, &c. ; Hoopoe — Wombwell Wood 1847, Eccles- 
field 1841, Norwood, &c. ; Night Jar — various places ; 
Turtle Dove — Walton and Badsworth ; Black Grouse — 
Bradhill Moors ; Oyster Catcher — Worsbro', Stainbro', &c. ; 
Dotterell — one at Staincross; Ringed Plover — Fleets, Spring 
1857; Little Egret — New Hall; Common Bittern — Bolton- 
on-Dearne 1845, Badsworth 1855 ; White Stork — Bretton 
Park ; Common Curlew and Whimbrel — various places ; 
Black-tailed Godwit — Haw Park; Great Snipe — Dearne- 
side, Old Mill 1857, near Doncaster ; Spotted Crake — one 
