. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . riety of egg is occasionally found in Yorkshire ;mj^ collection contains one of a clutch of seven taken in June1894 by Mr. C. Milburn, and a clutch of a similar characteris in the possession of Mr. W. Gyngell of Scarborough, foundby him near that place. In 1877 a brood was reared near Masham in the nest ofa Sedge Warbler, after the latter bird had brought off itsyoung. Its vernacular names are varied and numerous ; GreaterPrettychaps and White-throated Fauvet are fancy booknames used in Neville Woods Natural
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . riety of egg is occasionally found in Yorkshire ;mj^ collection contains one of a clutch of seven taken in June1894 by Mr. C. Milburn, and a clutch of a similar characteris in the possession of Mr. W. Gyngell of Scarborough, foundby him near that place. In 1877 a brood was reared near Masham in the nest ofa Sedge Warbler, after the latter bird had brought off itsyoung. Its vernacular names are varied and numerous ; GreaterPrettychaps and White-throated Fauvet are fancy booknames used in Neville Woods Naturalist, 1837; Winnelor Windle Straw, Peggy, Peggy Whitethroat, and NettleCreeper are in general use ; Small-Straw at Huddersfieldand in the West Riding, and Straw-Small at Wilsden andin the West Riding are terms applied to the nest; Muggieor Meggie, and Nettle Monger are used in the North Riding ;Big Peggy and Big Peggy Whitethroat in Nidderdale ; PeggyChatter in the East Riding ; and Nettle Wren in East Cleve-land ; while Mock Nightingale is a name formerly used atRedcar. 1 ■■ ■^^ 67 LESSER curruca (Z.). Summer visitant, generally but thinly distributed ; not so abundantas the preceding species. The first mention of this as a Yorkshire bird is, apparently,in Loudons Magazine for July 1832, where it is chronicledas occurring in Wensleydale in 1831. Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote :— Curruca garriila.—Lesser Whitethroat. Met with near Doncaster,Huddersfield, Hebden Bridge, and Halifax, and is common near Sheffieldand York ; is seldom seen near Bridlington, and then only in springand autumn ; it is not known to breed there.* The general time for the appearance of the Lesser White-throat is about the end of April or early in May ; at Barnsleythe average date, calculated over a period of twenty yearsbetween 1854 and 1874, was the 28th April; and for tenyears afterwards it was the 4th May. The earliest recordedarrival was at Halifax, where one was noted on
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