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FIELD NOTES. 
BIRDS . 
Little Auk near York. — -During very severe weather a 
specimen of the Little Auk was shot on Clifton Ings, on Nov- 
ember 12th, by D. Ashby, York. — Sydney H. Smith. 
Water Rail at York. — A Water Rail was killed on the 
night of November nth /12th, on the railway at York, by 
collision with the telegraph wires/and sent to me by Mr. J. 
Audaer. — Sydney H. Smith. 
Mealy Redpolls at Scarborough. — On December 4th I 
saw four Mealy Redpolls feeding upon nettles near the Scar- 
borough Mere. On December 5th they were apparently not 
far from the same place, and I have seen them on one or two 
occasions since. They were very tame, and permitted a near 
approach. — T. N. Roberts. 
Shag at York. — A fine adult specimen of this rare visitor 
was killed on the River Ouse near Marygate Landing, York, 
practically in the middle of the city, by Mr. Cyril Peacock, 
on January 6th, 1922. The bird, which is new to our local 
list, I saw in the flesh, and its twelve tail feathers make the 
identity certain.— Sydney H. Smith. 
Bittern at Scarborough. — On December 17th a Bittern 
visited some marshy ground not far from the town. It was 
disturbed from a small patch of reeds, and alighted again on 
an adjoining larger patch, where it stayed for some time, and 
allowed me to have a splendid view of it, as it stood with its 
beak pointing upwards, an attitude peculiar to the species. — 
T. N. Roberts. 
Rare Birds in the Wilsden District. — On December 
12th, quite a spring-like day*, when coming to Wilsden from 
Beckfoot, on crossing a patch of coarse grass at the south-west 
edge of Bingley Wood, a small flock of eight to ten birds rose 
almost at my feet with a tremendous whirring noise. These 
birds, I have little or no doubt, were Quail. I distinctly heard 
the loud cry of the Wryneck in the park between Bingley Wood 
and Beckfoot in April, a few years ago. Another rare bird I 
had the pleasure of seeing in October, 1916. I then kept 
poultry in a small wood near this village, through which a 
stream of water runs, and on going to one of my cotes I saw 
a small bird with a white rump fly behind the cote, and on 
running up to the cote, I had a fine view of Coues’s Redpoll 
feeding on the seeds of meadow sweet, which all the Redpolls 
are exceedingly fond of. Another bird, a Richard’s Pipit, 
which I saw one November afternoon a few years ago has 
never been recorded in The Naturalist. At the same time 
I saw, I think, other two feeding a few yards from the edge 
of the manure, and on jumping the wall, one of the birds 
allowed me to approach somwhat close. Its outer tail 
feathers, when it flew, were white, but its manner of walking 
was what struck me most, and its large size. Two Turtle Doves 
1922 Feb. 1 
