BIRD NOTES 179 



1890 



Nov. 19. No less than eight Bearded Tits exposed 

 for sale on a poulterer's stall. They had been killed 

 with very large shot, and had simply been riddled 

 to pieces ! All but one were eventually thrown into 

 the rubbish-box. 



Dec. 7. A Wigeon was picked up on the North 

 Denes just below the telegraph wires near the 

 railway lines. Its neck and wing were broken. 



Dec. 31. Small gulls starving, and so tame that 

 they alighted upon the Marine Parade to pick up 

 crumbs and biscuits thrown to them. Some boys 

 caught several by converting a fish trunk into a 

 trap, tilting it at one end upon a stick to which a 

 long string had been attached. When the gulls 

 alighted to pick up the bait the urchins pulled the 

 string. 



1891 



Jan. 7. A Rook was brought to me with a 

 queerly formed beak, the upper mandible being 

 but half the length of the lower one. 



April 26. After a spell of rough, adverse 

 weather, I picked up at the high-water mark on 

 the beach the remains of a Woodcock, a Jackdaw, 

 a Chaffinch, a Blackbird, and a Redwing. 



June 25. Lately several adult Puffins have been 

 washed ashore dead, probably victims of a severe 

 northerly wind which obtained during the month. 

 Strong tides must have drifted them from at least 

 the Yorkshire coast. 



