76 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



parish church. Their average time of arrival is the 

 7th of May; they leave again about the 20th of 

 August, young birds being occasionally seen up to 

 the middle of September*. 



INSESSOEES FISSIEOSTRES. CAPEIMULGIDJE. 



126. CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^EUS, Linnaeus. Nightjar. 



A summer visitant, but very locally distributed 

 and nowhere common. Very rare in the coast dis- 

 tricts of North-east Lincolnshire. Mr. Alington has 

 occasionally met with them in the parish of Swinhope 

 on our North Wolds. One was shot from turnips, 

 before a party of shooters, in the adjoining parish to 

 this, on October 3rd, 1871. Another, I find from my 

 note-book, was killed on the Great-Cotes "fitties" by a 

 Grimsby gunner in the last week of November 1864 f. 



SASOEES. COLUMBID&. 



127. COLUMBA PALUMBUS, Linnaeus. Ring-Dove . 



Provincial Wood-Pigeon, Quest. 



Is much more numerous than formerly, having 

 greatly increased during the last ten years. Collects 

 in immense flocks in the autumn, and in sharp weather 

 resorts to the cabbage- and turnip-fields to feed on 

 the leaves of these plants. In severe winters with 

 much frost and snow, the ranks of our local birds 



* In 1869, Sept. 18th ; in 1870, Sept. 14th (Great Cotes). 



t I found a pair, male and female, in a plantation near the 

 Aylesby Beck on the 27th of May, 1872. 



