IBIDIDAI—ANATID Zi 
170. ArpETTA miInuTA (Linn.). Little Bittern. 
One, an adult male, at Easington, Holderness, May 25th, 1874 [‘ Zool.,’ 
1874, p. 4063]. An adult male was also shot near Gainsborough, on 
May 20th, 1870 [‘ Birds of Humber District,’ p. 104]. September 23rd, 
1881, an immature male, near Goole [‘ Nat.,’ 1881, p. 66]. For other 
Yorkshire occurrences see ‘“‘ Handbook Yorkshire Vertebrata,” p. 50. 
171. Boraurus sTeLuaRis (Linn.). Bittern. 
An occasional visitor in the winter months. The occurrences between 
1875 and 1898 are far too numerous to mention. The last on the 
Cotes beck, on December 11th, 1897. In the second week of October, 
1890, four were observed at the Spurn to come in from the sea together 
[‘ Nat.,’ 1891, p. 23]. 
172. Crconra ALBA, Bechst. White Stork. 
In the ‘ Notitiz Lud,” 1834. ‘Three in the last ten years,” near 
Louth. Recent occurrences are a mature bird, shot in September, 1869, at 
Withernsea, and set up by Mr. Loten. August 2nd, 1890, one shot from 
a chimney top at Mappleton, near Hornsea [‘ The Field,’ August 9th, 
1890]. . An adult in the Strickland Collection at York was shot in June, 
1832, at Marshchapel, on the Lincolnshire coast. 
173. CIcontIA NIGRA (Linn.). Black Stork. 
One, in the York Museum, was shot on Market Weighton Common, 
October 29th, 1852 |‘ Nat.,’ Old series, III., p. 19]. 
Family IBIDID A. 
174. PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS, Linn. Glossy Ibis. 
One, Easington, near Spurn, in the autumn of 1850 [Loten]. An-adult 
at Brayton Bridge, near Selby, in May, 1874 |‘ Field,’ June 13th, 1874]. 
September 9th, 1881, a young bird at Skegness, Lincolnshire, and a 
second in the same locality on October 27th [‘ Migration Report,’ 1881, 
p. 29]. 
Family PLATALEIDA. 
175. PLATALEA LEUCORODIA, Linn. Spoonbill. 
One, as Mr. F. Hoare, formerly of Beverley, informed me, in litt., 
shot near Ferriby, Yorkshire, in the spring of 1873. There are 
two other occurrences, one formerly in Mr. Boulton’s collection, shot 
many years ago near Grimsby, and another near Louth, about 1869 
[‘ Birds of Humber,’ p. 107]. 
Order ANSERES. Family ANATIDA. 
176. ANSER CINEREUS, Meyer. Grey-lag Goose. 
An occasional visitor in small parties, or single, in the later autumn 
and winter—October to end of February. The last occurrence a fine 
adult (a solitary bird), shot on October 10th, 1898, by Mr. G. H. Caton 
Haigh, on the coast. 
