. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . name. A West Riding termis Yellow Youldring or Yoldring, with the variants Goldringand Youldring {Zool. 1848, p. 2290), Yolering at Huddersfield,Yowlring and Yowley at Ackworth,,Yellow Yowring in Cravenand Youldie in the Western Ainsty; of close affinity to theseis the general term Goldie. In the North Riding this birdis Goldfinch, or as pronounced Gowdspink. In 1784 Tunstallcalled it Goldspink, a name recorded also as used at Thirskin 1854. In Upper Teesdale it is simply Spink ; Bessy atSedbergh; Scribbler
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . name. A West Riding termis Yellow Youldring or Yoldring, with the variants Goldringand Youldring {Zool. 1848, p. 2290), Yolering at Huddersfield,Yowlring and Yowley at Ackworth,,Yellow Yowring in Cravenand Youldie in the Western Ainsty; of close affinity to theseis the general term Goldie. In the North Riding this birdis Goldfinch, or as pronounced Gowdspink. In 1784 Tunstallcalled it Goldspink, a name recorded also as used at Thirskin 1854. In Upper Teesdale it is simply Spink ; Bessy atSedbergh; Scribbler in Cleveland; Writing Lark and Scrib-bling Lark at Harrogate and in Craven ; Blakeling in Craven;and Gold Lenny or Yellow Lenny at Loftus-in-Cleveland. CIRL cirlus (L.). Resident ; very limited both in numbers and distribution. The first mention of the Cirl Bunting in Yorkshire wasmade by Neville Wood, who recorded that a fine female, inexcellent condition, was shot at Campsall, seven miles to thenorth of Doncaster, on 25th April 1837 (Neville Woods 1837).. ^ ■^ CIRL BUNTING. 203 Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote :— Emberiza cirliis.—Cirl Bunting—Of the only two recorded Yorkshirespecimens one was killed near Campsall Hall, Doncaster. in 1837 (F. list of Yorkshire Birds, Doncaster Journal, December 1840) ;the other was shot near York. This very distinct species has been usually consideredas a casual visitant, but may now be described as a scarceresident, and has nested on several occasions, though verysparingly distributed. One was taken at Bolton-on-Dearne on 8th January 1881 ;near Huddersfield a pair nested at Woodsome in 1859 ■> whileat Lofthouse, near Wakefield, the nest and eggs have twicebeen found; in May 1882 and 1889 (J. Ward, Nat. 1890, , 320). From Doncaster it was reported in 1837 (seeabove) ; two were noted at Norland in 1864; in theWestern Ainsty it has occurred at Wilstrop and at NewtonKyme (E. R. Waite, op. cit. 189
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