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FIELD NOTES. 
BIRDS . 
Blackcock in Yorkshire. — On June 7th, while climbing 
Baugh Fell from the south-east, in company with Mr. C. F. 
Procter, we disturbed a Blackcock at an elevation of about 
800 feet. As it flew down to a lower level I had an excellent 
view of it through my glasses, and saw that it was in full 
breeding plumage. We saw no trace of the Grey Hen.— E. 
Wilfred Taylor. 
Common Tern at Harrogate in July. — On the evening 
of July 9th, a cat brought a Common Tern into a house at 
Starbeck. The bird was in full summer plumage, and appeared 
to be uninjured in any way. The stomach was empty. Strong 
north-west winds had been blowing for a day or two, and 
they had probably blown the bird inland from one of its 
Lancashire or Cumberland breeding stations. — R. Fortune. 
Hoopoe in* East Yorks. — On May 15th, .a Hoopoe 
visited the premises of B. G. Jalland, Esq., Sutton-on-Hull. 
It came quite close to the house, showing no fear of man, 
but apparently its brilliant colours aroused the enmity of 
the other birds, for one and all mobbed it so incessantly 
that it flew away into the wood and was not seen again. Let 
us hope that we may not have to read its obituary notice. — 
E. W. Wade. 
Unusual Nesting Sites for Sand Martins. — Recently, 
when staying overnight at Huntingdon, I was interested in 
watching Sand Martins, evidently nesting, flying in and out 
of the holes made for drainage, in the sides of the Old Bridge. 
There was quite a number of the birds, and in the absence 
of any of the typical nesting sites, they had evidently adopted 
this somewhat unusual habitat. I also noted the largest 
number of House Martins I have seen for some years, nesting 
under the eaves of an extensive unused mill or warehouse at 
one end of the bridge. Numerous Swifts were also nesting in 
the same building.— R. Fortune. 
Range of the Fulmar Petrel. — Referring to Mr. E. W. 
Wade’s note in The Naturalist, July, 1922, this bird commenced 
to breed on Rathlin Island, N. Antrim, last year, and has 
again bred this year. It is now seven or eight years since 
the first Irish breeding record was obtained, on the cliffs of 
Mayo and Horn Head. No egg of the Fulmar had been 
obtained in Ireland until this year, I having recently received 
a cracked and addled specimen from Rathlin Island. It is 
rather smaller than the average Fulmar’s egg, and I am of the 
opinion it was laid by either a very young or very old bird — 
probably the latter. Mr. Wade mentions that he ‘ found about 
25 per cent, of the eggs examined on the outlying stacs of 
St. Kilda to be addled, as if the birds were getting old and 
1922 Aug.-Sept. 
