BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 17 



occur almost annually in Holderness; and in the 

 'Zoologist' for 1871, p. 2482, Mr. Boyes records no 

 less than five obtained near Beverley in the severe 

 winter of 1870-71. On the 10th of February, 1866, 

 I saw a beautiful specimen in the Great Cotes 

 marshes, perched on the topmost twig of a haw- 

 thorn. In the stomach of one were the remains of 

 two large beetles. Colonel Montagu* (February 

 1807) received a male from the Lincolnshire coast. 



29. LANIUS COLLURIO, Linnaeus. Red-backed Shrike. 



Very rare. I have never met with or heard of 

 a Lincolnshire-killed specimen of this bird. One, an 

 adult female, as Mr. Boulton writes me, which he 

 had in the flesh, was shot near Beverley four or five 

 years ago, and is the only example he has seen of 

 this species in that neighbourhood. 



INSESSORES DENTIBOSTXES. MUSCICAPID^. 



30. MUSCICAPA GRISOLA, Linnaeus. Spotted Fly- 

 catcher. 



A common summer migrant, arriving in North 

 Lincolnshire in May, seldom, however, before the 

 second week; it leaves again in September. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Wheelwright, this little bird has a 



* Montagu's Dictionary of British Birds (Newman's edition j 

 the references to Montagu's Dictionary in this work are all to 

 this edition), p. 307. 



