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autumnal movement, is carried on during the night : 

 one day we find enormous flocks in the coast marshes, 

 where the next morning not a bird is to be seen. In 

 cold and backward springs they will sometimes hang 

 about till late in April, weeks after our resident Star- 

 lings have paired and are incubating. 



Varieties occasionally occur. A pure white bird 

 was shot in this neighbourhood in November 1868. 



100. PASTOR ROSEUS (Linnseus). Rose-coloured 

 Pastor. 



Mr. Boulton received a splendid mature male in 

 the flesh shot on the 26th of August, 1866, on Cot- 

 tingham Common near Beverley*. An adult male 

 was also obtained near Scarborough in July 1863 f- 



INSESSORES CONIROSTEE&. CORVID&. 



101. CORVUS CORAX, Linnseus. Raven. 

 Judging from the name of a neighbouring parish J, 



* See < Zoologist' for 1866, s.s. p. 29. 



f See a list by Mr. Roberts, published in Theakston's ' Guide to 

 Scarborough/ of rare birds obtained near that place. 



f Ravendale near Grimsby. The name is also retained in 

 Ravensfleet on the Trent, Ravensthorpe in the same district, and 

 Ravensthorpe near Broughton, Brigg. On the Yorkshire coast 

 at the Humber's mouth once flourished the town of Ravenspurn, 

 a place of considerable importance at a period when Hull was a 

 poor fishing-village j Henry IV. landed there in 1411. It was 

 gradually encroached upon and swallowed up by the sea ; and its 

 former site is in deep water half a mile west of the present Spurn 

 lights. 



