290 MR. O. V. APLIN ON THE DISTRIBUTION IN GREAT BRITAIN 
Bewick’s figure of the female represents the young in first plumage ” 
(Hancock’s ‘Catalogue of Birds of Northumberland and Durham,’ 
p. 42). 
Durham. Mr. James Sutton, of Durham, writes to me as 
follows : “ A few years ago I had the nest sent me, recently taken 
by the late Mr. Wearmouth, Taxidermist, &c., in the neighbourhood 
of High Force, Teesdale, Durham ; it contained four fine eggs, 
which, owing to a mishap, were broken ; the nest is in my 
collection ” (in lit.). 
Cumberland and Westmoreland. “A scarce summer visitant, 
a few pairs breeding annually in the lake district. In the north of 
the county it only occurs irregularly. Mr. Tom Duckworth found 
a nest some years ago near Newby Cross, and we have seen the 
thorns festooned with insects in other seasons. A pair nested near 
Carlisle in 1883, and another pair was observed near Gilsland. 
In August, 1885, we observed an immature specimen being 
vigorously mobbed by some small birds’’ (Macpherson and 
Duckworth’s ‘Birds of Cumberland,’ page 27). 
The Bev. H. A. Macpherson writes : “I have seen both eggs and 
birds obtained in the English lake district, and I think I could 
show you a pair any summer, but it is very local .... If 
anything, it is losing ground in the north-west of England, certainly 
not gaining it ; and it does not generally occur as far north as 
Carlisle” (in lit.). 
Dr. C. A. Parker wrote of West Cumberland: “The B.-b. 
Shrike is common” (‘ Zoologist,’ 1879, p. 117). 
In a note in the ‘Zoologist’ (1884, p. 128) the Eev. H. A. 
Macpherson speaks of this Shrike as rare ; and after mentioning 
one seen near Carlisle on the 2nd July, 1883, adds: “Though 
established in the Lake district, L. collurio has only once before 
bred near Carlisle in the memory of Messrs. Duckworth and other 
observers.” 
Yorkshire. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke gives me the following 
information: “Possibly breeds annually in the county; but is 
extremely erratic in its visits as a nesting species to any particular 
district ; and does not seem to have a great desire to return even 
to those particular localities where it has reared its young success- 
fully. Thus I can only regard it as a rare casual nesting species in 
any portion of the county, though a pair or so may breed 
