. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . rds. The earliest authentic account of the Woodcocks nestingin England is, probably, that by Willughby, who stated inhis Ornithology (1678, pp. 289, 290), that Mr. Jessop[of Broomhall] saw young Woodcock to be sold at Heppenstall of that town also mentioned the fact of youngbirds being observed {Zool. 1843, p. 15 ; and 1844, p. 667),and according to Seebohm ( British Birds, vol. iii. p. 234),it still breeds in the Sheffield district, where that authorsaw a nest in April 1870. It was not unknown
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . rds. The earliest authentic account of the Woodcocks nestingin England is, probably, that by Willughby, who stated inhis Ornithology (1678, pp. 289, 290), that Mr. Jessop[of Broomhall] saw young Woodcock to be sold at Heppenstall of that town also mentioned the fact of youngbirds being observed {Zool. 1843, p. 15 ; and 1844, p. 667),and according to Seebohm ( British Birds, vol. iii. p. 234),it still breeds in the Sheffield district, where that authorsaw a nest in April 1870. It was not unknown as a breedingspecies to Allis and, doubtless owing to the greater interestnow taken in ornithology, and to the operation of the WildBirds Protection Acts, the discovery of the Woodcocks nestis no uncommon occurrence. In addition to the localitiesreferred to, it is reported from near Doncaster in 1834, Stain-borough Woods, near Barnsley, in 1831 and 1876, in thesecluded woods of Airedale, Ribblesdale, the Forest of Bowland,Nidderdale, Wharfedale, Craven, the Washburn Valley (where I. Nest of Woodcock, near Selby. A. Fortune. See page 597. WOODCOCK. 597 saw eggs in 1903), near Ripon, and other suitable parts of WestYorkshire. In the North Riding it breeds with greaterregularity and frequency than is generally supposed to be thecase ; the late J. Carter of Masham has known of six nestsin one season in Lower Wensleydale ; it is probably of annualoccurrence near York, in Swaledale, and near Sedbergh;on the southern slopes of the Hambleton Hills several pairsbreed near Sessay and Coxwold, also near Helmsley, in Rye-dale, and in Bilsdale, where I saw three old birds in June1883. In the Cleveland area it nests regularly in the woodsof Wilton, Arncliffe, Swainby, Ingleby, and Kildale, as well aslower down the Esk Valley, and in the Mulgrave and Grinklewoods near the coast. In East Yorkshire the nest has been occasionally knownon the Wolds, and in 1875 one was found at Knapton. Thehome-b
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