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FIELD NOTES. 
Grey Wagtail in the Huddersfield District. — In 1844, 
Thomas Allis wrote of this bird, ‘ Not very frequent near 
Huddersfield/ In the higher parts of our district this bird 
is not now uncommon. I saw many on the 19th November, 
1921, near the source of the River Holme, and throughout 
the whole of the winter months, up to the 21st March, many 
birds have frequented the River Colne just below its junction 
with the River Holme. — W. E. L. Wattam, Newsome. 
Early Yorkshire Cuckoo. — Mr. H. Mortimer Batten, 
F.Z.S., informs me that he saw a Cuckoo on the moors, near 
Hutton-le-Hole, on March 29th. It rose from the heather 
within thirty yards of him. The date is phenomenally 
early, April 4th being the previous record for Yorkshire. 
The reports of March Cuckoos are, naturally, looked upon 
with much suspicion, but coming from such a competent 
observer as Mr. Batten there can be no doubt as to the correct- 
ness of the record. — R. Fortune. 
White Magpie in Lincolnshire. — On March 8th, Mr. 
E. P. Rawnsley (of Raithsby Hall, Spilsby, Lines.), wrote 
to tell me that the previous week he saw, amongst a flock of 
about twenty Magpies, a pure white one, which gave him a 
good view of it, perched on a fence and chattering as he rode 
by. Magpies appear to be scarce in that district, and Mr. 
Rawnsley suggests that this conspicuous bird must have 
come from a distance : and it seems unlikely that this bird if 
bred in this country, would have survived till March. Possibly 
these Magpies were from overseas, and were gathered together 
preparatory to the return migration. — W. H. St. Quintin. 
Snow Geese in North Yorks. — I have seen no records 
of Snow Geese this winter, but from what Mr. James Patterson 
writes, it seems almost certain that a flock of seven Geese, 
which visited Goathland on the 4th and 5th of February, when 
we had some very wild weather with snow and high wind, 
were of this species. On the first day they almost alighted in 
a field with some white Wyandotte fowls, and passed within 
fifty yards of a man who was tending them, before they 
noticed him, and made off. Mr. Patterson showed the 
illustration of this Goose in Howard Saunders’ Manual to 
his neighbour, who is satisfied that it represents the birds 
which he saw. I understand that the flock was seen again in 
the above district the following day. — W. H. St. Quintin. 
Waxwings in Yorks., etc. — Ingleby Greenhow, Great 
Ayton. — I obtained a Waxwing, which was killed, out of a 
flock of about a dozen, by a man who threw a stone at them. 
They were remarkably tame. It seems to be a 1 Waxwing 
year,’ as I have heard of several others in the neighbourhood. 
1922 May 1 j 
