6x6 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



whilst in others it is met with in large flights, these occurrences 

 being coincident with the appearance of the Little Stint, 

 with which it is usually associated on migration, and like that 

 species it is both a coast-marsh, and a shore, bird. It is most 

 numerous in the Tees and Humber districts, but is also met 

 with on other parts of the coast, particularly where sandy 

 beaches are found. The earliest date on which it has been 

 noticed on the autumnal passage is 4th July 1855, when 

 an adult example, now in the collection of Mr. Thomas Boynton 

 of Bridlington, was taken on the East Riding Wolds ; on the 

 2ist of the same month, in the year 1881, the late J. Cordeaux 

 obtained two at Spurn. At the Teesmouth the earliest 

 I have had personal knowledge of was on 27th July 1894, 

 when I saw two with deep chestnut coloured breasts by the 

 margin of a brackish pool on the salt marshes. 



The principal arrivals take place from mid- August to mid- 

 September, and generally consist of " youngsters," with buff 

 breasts, although occasionally a few adults in faded summer 

 plumage accompany them ; by the end of September the 

 bulk have passed on in their southward journey ; the ist of 

 October is the latest date on which I have seen it at the Tees- 

 mouth, but the late T. E. Buckley procured one at Spurn on 

 the 9th of that month in 1869. 



There was an extensive migration of this bird in 1873 ; 

 in 1881 it was very abundant both at the Tees and Humber, 

 as also in 1887 (Nat. 1889, p. 83, and Ninth Migration Report, 

 p. 57) ; in the autumn of 1890 I have notes of upwards of a 

 hundred, obtained at the Tees ; and in 1892 many were killed 

 at Spurn, several with red breasts, the richest coloured being 

 found to be females. 



Inland this Sandpiper has occurred as a rare straggler, 

 and, in addition to those mentioned by Allis, it is reported 

 from Huddersfield in 1837 ; on the river Colne in 1843 ; Wake- 

 field (Talbot, " Birds of Wakefield," 1877, p. 27), and occasion- 

 ally on flooded land at Scampston, Beverley, and one or two 

 other localities on the East Riding Wolds. 



