CHARADRIID 31 
251. PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Linn.). Red-necked Phalarope 
An occasional visitor, much less common than the preceding. Be- 
tween 1870 and 1898, I have recorded nine occurrences from September 
17th to December 12th. 
252. ScoLopax RuUSTICULA, Linn. Woodcock. 
Resident and nesting locally in some numbers. The home-bred birds 
leave their haunts in the early autumn, probably for the south. In 
October and November the continental birds arrive, usually in two 
well-marked flights and occasionally a third. Old and young cross at the 
same time, but not in flocks, and with northerly and easterly winds. 
There is a return journey in March and early April. 
258. GALLINAGO MAsoR (Gmel). Great Snipe. 
A rare visitor in the autumn. I have notes of seven between 1868 
and 1898, all in September and October. 
254. GALLINAGO C@&LEsTIS (Frenzel). Common Snipe. 
Resident and nesting in suitable localities. The immigrants from 
the continent arrive in two chief. flights, much as do the woodcock, in 
October and November. In July and August numbers of home-birds 
resort to the coast districts, creeks and fitties. In the winter snipe 
have become very scarce in some localities where formerly abundant. 
255. GALLINAGO GALLINULA (Linn.). Jack Snipe. 
A winter visitor in the last half of September and in October. 
Earliest dates are September 21st, 1868; 14th, 1888; 20th, 1889. A 
return migration in the spring in March and April. The latest occur- 
rences since 1863 was April 11th, in 1872. 
256. LimrcoLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temm.). Broad-billed Sandpiper. 
April 1863, one, in Sir H. S. Boynton’s collection, from Hornsea Mere. 
[‘ Hand. Yorks. Vert.,’ p. 74]. 
257. TRINGA MAcuLATA. Vieill. Pectoral Sandpiper. 
Recent occurrences of this American species are October 2nd, 1888, 
Kilnsea, Holderness [{‘ Nat.,’ 1888, p. 354], and figure in Lord Lilford’s 
‘* Birds of the British Islands,” vol. v., plate 31. September 28th, 1897, 
adult male, Humber side, Kilnsea, now in Edinburgh Museum. 
258. TRINGA ALPINA. Linn. Dumlin. 
The large northern race arrives in enormous numbers on the coast in 
August and September, and very large numbers remain in the winter 
months. A very heavy return migration in May, the birds being in full 
summer plumage. The brightly coloured small race [Tringa schinzw 
Brehm] also visit the Humber flats in’ May. <A few pair of dunlin 
continue to nest on one of our Lincolnshire commons. 
259. TRINGA MINUTA, Leisler. Little Stunt. 
An irregular autumn immigrant, and in some years fairly common in 
the Spurn district, in others absent or not observed. Arrives in August 
and September. On May 7th, 1877, one in full breeding plumage shot 
at Kilnsea, near the Spurn. 1887 and 1892 were great little stint years, 
in the former, in flocks of hundreds at the Spurn. 
