40 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



66. CALAMOPHILUS BIARMICUS (Linnaeus). 

 Bearded Titmouse. 



Once common in the fen-districts in this county. 

 Have never met with a Lincolnshire-killed specimen 

 of this most beautiful and peculiar species. Mr. 

 Boulton had a pair, male and female, shot in Lin- 

 colnshire, which his uncle, Dr. Boulton, of Horn- 

 castle, received in the flesh. The gizzard is very 

 muscular ; I have found it contain the seeds of some 

 sort of reed or grass, and coarse river-sand. 



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67. BOMBYCILLA GARRULOUS (Linnaeus) . Waxwing. 

 Provincial. Waxy. 



An occasional winter visitor. Is plentiful in some 

 winters, and as rare in others. Very numerous in 

 the winter of 1849-50 during the months of January 

 and February, and again in the winter of 1863-64, 

 in which season in November some large flocks 

 appeared in Holderness. Again, early in January 

 1867, flocks of Waxwings arrived along the north- 

 east coast of Yorkshire, and many specimens were 

 shot ; and in the same season several were procured 

 on the Lincolnshire coast near Donna Nook and 

 Saltfleet. I have occasionally met with it in North 

 Lincolnshire ; and Mr. Boulton has had within the 

 last few years several fine examples shot in Holder- 

 ness. The gizzard and crop usually contain haw- 

 thorn-berries swallowed entire. 



