36 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



again from the end of September to early in October. 

 It has in the autumn been known to alight on a 

 vessel off the Yorkshire coast in company with Tree- 

 Pipits and Whin-Chats and a Redstart*. Goes far up 

 within the arctic circle, and is one of the commonest 

 of the birds of East Finmark, where, according to 

 Pastor Sommerfeldt, its covered nest is almost always 

 lined with white Ptarmigan's feathers. 



58. SYLVIA RUFA, Latham. Chiffchaff. 



A common summer visitant, but local, preferring 

 well-timbered and sheltered situations to the bleak 

 marsh hedgerows, or a sparsely timbered district. 

 Arrives usually during the first week in April, occa- 

 sionally as early as the last week in March. Is readily 

 recognized by its constantly repeated note, not unlike 

 the syllables ' ' chip, chip, chop," uttered in a feeble 

 treble from the summit of some lofty tree. Departs 

 in October, some remaining as late as the third week 

 in that month. 



59. REGULUS CRISTATUS, Koch. Golden-crested 



Wren. 



Provincial. Woodcock Pilot. 



A resident in our woodlands and plantations 

 throughout the year, receiving large accessions in 



* See Mr. Stevenson's < Birds of Norfolk/ vol. i. p. 93 (quoted 

 from ' Field Naturalist' for 1833, vol. i. p. 466). 



