INTRODUCTION. Vll 



in the "Field" newspaper, would, I have little 

 doubt, prove this to be generally the case. An 

 exception to this rule is the Cuckoo, also the 

 Common Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), which 

 latter invariably appears first on the wolds during 

 the third or fourth week in April, and a week or 

 ten days later in the coast marshes. 



Our shore birds and waders, as a rule, follow 



the coast-line both in their vernal aud autumnal 



migrations. The sea-birds follow the same course, 



but travel much further out to sea, their presence 



inland being quite exceptional and probably only 



induced by severe and long-continued storms. 



I may here remark that an experience of many 



years leads to the conclusion that the Lincolnshire 



side of the Humber is about the worst district on 



our north-eastern seaboard, between Berwick and 



Lowestoft, for rare captures. For if we refer to 



the map, we see that the Lincolnshire coast of the 



Humber is completely overlapped by that of 



Tlolderness, the Spurn itself projecting several 



miles beyond the actual Yorkshire coast. In 



the later summer and autumn, any wanderers 



from the north following the coast-line are pulled 



up by Flamborough Head, where much the 



largest proportion of our rarest captures are made. 



