28 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



44. PHCENICURA RUTICILLA, Swainson. Redstart. 



By no means common. Individuals are sometimes 

 met with in the spring and autumn in this parish. 

 In two instances I have seen them in October, 

 namely on the 8th and 13th, in both cases adult 

 males. Breeds near Brocklesby, in the northern 

 division of this county, but is considered rare. Has 

 been seen in the North Sea in the autumn. 



45. SAXICOLA RUBICOLA (Linnaeus). Stonechat. 



Resident, but nests very sparingly in North Lin- 

 colnshire. 



An autumn and spring visitant, and, as a migra- 

 tory, much more common than formerly. There 

 has been a very marked increase in their numbers 



Warbler (Phoenicura suecica) off the coast of Norfolk. While 

 coming from Christiania to London by the S. S. ' North Star,' 

 we had observed many birds performing their autumnal migra- 

 tion. The Wheatear, Titlark, and Ring-Dotterel had been seen 

 in mid-ocean, flying easily against a light S.W. breeze. The 

 number of these migrants increased as, on the 1st of September, 

 we approached the Norfolk coast, many of them, as the weather 

 was thick, settling on the ship. Among these was a bird 

 which we took at first for a Redstart, as it sat up in the cross- 

 trees, but which, on taking a short flight to the rail of the com- 

 panion-ladder, was seen to be a Blue-throated Warbler, a bird 

 of the year, with the blue feathers of the horseshoe inter- 

 mingled with brown, in the same state of plumage as many 

 procured two years before in the marsh at Fogstuen on the 

 Dovre Pjeld. We watched it some time, until it flew off in 

 the direction of Aldeburgh, distant then about twelve miles." 



