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FIELD NOTES. 
A Tame Robin. — The tameness of Robins is almost a 
commonplace : but I think the following is worthy of note. 
For four winters in succession, a fairly long period for a 
small bird in the wild, a Robin has attached itself to the 
bookstall in Ilkley railway station, where it may be seen 
daily. In late March or April it absents itself for nesting 
purposes, and is not seen throughout the summer, nor until 
about September. It enters and departs through a small 
hole in the roof, and it appears to be quite indifferent to 
the noise of the trains, and the people about. The attend- 
ants feed it, and chiefly on broken biscuits. I make it 
out to be a female. — H. B. Booth. 
Hawk at Patrington. — Having had reported to me that 
an unfamiliar Hawk had made its appearance at the dough 
at Patrington, I was fortunate enough on the morning of 
Tuesday, November 7th, in my third attempt, at seeing a 
very fine Hen Harrier make a kill in some long grass, and I 
got up to within comparatively short distance of it, with 
field glasses in my hands. I had the pleasure of seeing it 
very closely. This is the second time I have seen a Hen 
Harrier in a state of ‘ ferae naturae.' I watched it for about 
three-quarters of an hour, and left it still hunting. As I 
watched it, it was mobbed by two or more carrion Crows 
whenever it was in the air, but it eluded them whenever it 
was so inclined, by a flight that was more like a continuous 
swaying motion, always from side to side, with very little 
wing movement. Although at the end of each glide it stood 
poised for a moment, it never hovered. Twice it settled on 
the top branch of a hawthorn bush, but it generally sought 
the long grass. The dough keeper, Mr. S. Drewery, told me 
that it has been there now for nearly three weeks, and he has 
seen it almost daily, that there were originally two, but that 
one whose rump was more darkly coloured had not been seen 
of a day or two. — Chas. J. Proctor. 
SOME FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN CRAVEN. 
CHRIS. A. CHEETHAM. 
The paper on Tardenoisian sites by Mr. T. Deans in the October number 
has suggested to me the desirability of getting casual finds of flint 
implements definitely recorded and so giving a better knowledge of the 
amount that have been seen in some parts of the country that are not 
so well known in this connection as is the East Riding. I have found 
worked flints on the hill above Kilnsey Crag ; by the side of upper 
Gordale Beck ; On Smearside ; on Moughton ; on Norber and above 
Trow Ghyll. 
The Naturalist 
