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the Humber embankment, amidst the reed-beds in 

 the drains, and even in turnips. They remain only 

 a short time, and, like those tiny wanderers the Gold- 

 crests, are here one day and gone the next*. The 

 little Wren often chooses odd places for its round 

 and snug nest ; I once found one artfully concealed 

 amidst the folds of a sheep-net which was tied up and 

 suspended from a net-stake in one of our fields. 



116. UPUPA EPOPS, Linnaeus. Hoopoe. 



Several of these rare migratory visitants have been 

 from time to time shot on the east coast, both in the 

 spring and autumn, particularly in the vicinity of 

 Flamborough. 



Recent occurrences are : 



One shot in June 1861 in the Danes-dyke, Flam- 

 borough (Zoologist, p. 9447). 



Another on the headland, about the middle of Sep- 

 tember 1864 (Zoologist, p. 9361) . 



Another, a Lincolnshire specimen, in Holbeach fen 

 in April 1869 (Zoologist, s.s. p. 1739). 



A fourth, a female, recorded by Mr. T. Boynton 

 (Zoologist, 1871, p. 2641), shot at Sewerby near 

 Bridlington on the 20th of April, 1871. 



* I have been told by persons living at Spurn that the Com- 

 mon Wren appears annually there in some numbers early in 

 October, usually preceding by a few days the Woodcocks and 

 their little "pilots" the Goldcrests. 



