. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . uralHistory, by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, appears in the PeoplesMagazine for December 1872, p. 379 : I obtained foureggs about ten years ago from a nest in Commondale (NorthYorkshire), about which, from the circumstances connectedwith bird, nest, and eggs, there could be no reasonable groundof doubt as to their origin. Only I did not see the bird myself *I received the eggs and the account from a person whose fatherhad been a gamekeeper, and whose own habits have ledhim to act often as amateur keeper, and had
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . uralHistory, by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, appears in the PeoplesMagazine for December 1872, p. 379 : I obtained foureggs about ten years ago from a nest in Commondale (NorthYorkshire), about which, from the circumstances connectedwith bird, nest, and eggs, there could be no reasonable groundof doubt as to their origin. Only I did not see the bird myself *I received the eggs and the account from a person whose fatherhad been a gamekeeper, and whose own habits have ledhim to act often as amateur keeper, and had made himfamiliar with various birds and animals. Hence the eggs,whefi shown to some metropolitan egg authorities, werepronounced not Redwings but Ring Ouzels eggs. However,during the past spring a Redwings nest and eggs, togetherwith the parent bird herself, have been obtained at Glaisdale,another district (originally of the same parish to which theCommondale mentioned above belongs) ; the person meetingwith them being a very competent ornithologist and ex- * The italics are FIELDFARE. 9 perienced egg-collector. The fact that the Redwing doesoccasionally breed in North Yorkshire, and I think not sovery unfrequently, is an interesting one, and therefore notunworthy of record here. A buff variety, with light grey markings, and the redpatch of a paler shade, was procured by Mr. Alwin S. Bell,near Scarborough, about 1855 {Zool. 1870, p. 2343), a whiteone, with red flanks and axillaries, about 1891-^2, is recordedat Ackworth ; a pied specimen at Monckton (Xidd.), and awhite one in the Beverley district in October 1903. In Cleveland it is locally known as Swinepipe, from itsnote. Wind Thrush is a Yorkshire name given by Allan in1791 (Foxs Synopsis, p. 63) ; in the Western AinstyRedwing Felfer is in use ; and Felfer at Ackworth and Scar-borough, being, doubtless, confused with the Fieldfare. InStaithes and Loftus district it is called Redwing Throlly. pilaris
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