2 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



came under my own observation in the autumn of 

 1862. It frequented the Humber foreshore,, in this 

 parish, for nearly a week; and several ineffectual 

 attempts were made to shoot it. 



In the spring of 1865 I saw an immature bird that 

 was shot off Flamborough Head (a locality where 

 the Sea-Eagle has been frequently observed). It 

 was skinned and set up by Mr. Bailey, of that place. 



Mr. Boulton, of Beverley, has informed me of two 

 occurrences, during the last ten years, of this Eagle 

 in the young plumage, in Holderness. 



3. PANDION HALI^ETUS (Linnaeus). Osprey. 



Now and then visits the neighbourhood of the 

 Humber. Mr. Boulton had a splendid pair, shot 

 about five years since on the river Hull, near 

 Beverley. Also a beautiful mature female, contain- 

 ing ova as large as peas, shot between Beverley and 

 Driffield on May 4th, 1864 (Zoologist, p. 9207), 

 measuring 5 feet 5 inches in extent of wing. The 

 stomach contained the soft parts of freshwater fish, 

 and a few fish-bones. An adult male was killed 

 December 4th, 1868, in the Trent marshes, near 

 Epworth and another shot in the same locality a 

 few years previously, when devouring a large fish on 

 the river-bank (Zoologist, s. s. p. 1559) . In the same 

 volume is recorded the capture, in September 1868, 

 of a specimen alive, but in a very exhausted state, 



