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Yapp ( - ) Cradley, Worcestershire.

Bird Notes Picked up the rejected 1854 Worcestershire Red-billed Tropicbird.

Yarrell, William (03/06/1784 - 01/09/1856) Little Ryder Street, St James's, Westminster, London.

Bird Notes Recorded the two 1821 Essex Scops Owls. Recorded and owned the 1823 Essex Little Bustard. Recorded the 1824 Essex Little Bustard. Examined the 1826 Cambridgeshire Little Crake. Owned the 1826 Cambridgeshire Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Recorded four 1830 Norfolk Red-footed Falcons. Examined the 1830 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper. Owned the 1836 Dowitcher species from Norfolk. Examined the 1836 Dorset Whiskered Tern. Examined the 1838 Cornwall Wilson's Storm-petrel. Examined the 1840 Norfolk Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Examined the 1841 Surrey Alpine Swift. Owned the pre1843 Greater London Pine Grosbeak. Examined the 1844 Devon Alpine Accentor. Examined the 1846 Essex White-throated Needletail. Examined and recorded the 1850 Kerry Little Shearwater. Examined the 1850 Norfolk Capped Petrel. Examined the 1853 Staffordshire Sooty Tern. Examined the 1853 Norfolk White-winged Black Tern. Examined the rejected 1853 Kent Dagenham Great Reed Warbler. Examined the 1854 Sussex Rufous Bush Robin. Examined the 1854 Nottinghamshire Lesser Yellowlegs. Examined the 1855 Wiltshire Cream-coloured Courser. Recorded the 1856 Berkshire Great Bustard.

Biography Bachelor. Joint owner with Robert Jones of a news agency with a royal warrant based in Ryder Street. National author of History of British Birds which was influenced by Thomas Bewick. It was Yarrell who discovered a bird new to science which he named in honour of his friend Bewick’s Swan. Close friend of Leonard Jenyns. Also friend of Charles Darwin, assisting him with the purchase of guns and how to prepare specimens prior to his embarkation. Admitted as a fellow of Linnean Society in November, 1825. Secretary of Zoological Society from 1836-38. Owned a considerable library and bird collection of which John Gould prepared some of his specimens.

Yates, R. St J. ( - ) Oxford, Oxfordshire.

Bird Notes Owned the 1868 Clyde Cream-coloured Courser until 1950s when donated to NMS.

Yates, S. ( - ) Eccleshall, Staffordshire.

Bird Notes Owned two 1863 Staffordshire Pallas's Sandgrouse.

Yeaman, J. A. ( - ) Edinburgh.

Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1931 Argyll White-tailed Eagle.

Yearley, F. ( - ) Surrey.

Bird Notes Preserved the 1853 Surrey Woodchat Shrike. Preserved the 1855 Surrey Night Heron. Preserved the c.1870 Surrey Little Bittern.

Yearley, sen., ( - ) Surrey.

Bird Notes Preserved the 1845 Surrey Rose-coloured Starling.

Yeates, Gordon K. ( - )

Bird Notes Saw the six 1945 Norfolk Glossy Ibis.

Yeoman, C. ( - ) Southampton, Hampshire.

Bird Notes Preserved the 1918 Devon Night Heron.

Yorstoun ( - ) Dumfriesshire, Dumfries & Galloway.

Bird Notes His keeper found the 1864 Dumfriesshire Roller.

Youell, J. ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Bird Notes Owned the c.1805 Norfolk Ferruginous Duck. Recorded the 1810 Norfolk Purple Heron. Recorded the 1820 Norfolk Squacco Heron. Shot and owned the 1824 Norfolk Night Heron. Recorded the two 1924 Norfolk Glossy Ibis. Owned one of the rejected 1830 Norfolk Bufflehead.

Young ( - )

Bird Notes Owned the 1876 Yorkshire White-spotted Bluethroat.

Young, F. ( - )

Bird Notes Shot the 1870 Kent Baillon's Crake.

Young, G. ( - ) Sittingbourne, Kent.

Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1873 Kent Greater Flamingo.

Young, J. ( - )

Bird Notes Found dead the 1876 Yorkshire White-spotted Bluethroat.

Young, W. ( - ) Burghead, Moray & Nairn.

Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1803 Moray Great Bustard.

Youngclause, J. ( - ) Shetland.

Bird Notes Sent the 1886 Shetland Yellow-browed Warbler to J. A. Harvie-Brown.