80 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



the Humber (here four miles wide) from Yorkshire, 

 and alighting in our marshes. 



XASORES. TETRAONIDJE. 



132. TETRAO TETRIX, Linnaeus. Black Grouse. 



Not indigenous ; was introduced some years since 

 in the wild uncultivated district near Frodingham, on 

 the Trent side ; and I have seen an old cock bird that 

 was shot in that neighbourhood. Towards the close 

 of the shooting-season of 1871-72, the Rev. H. G. 

 Southwell shot a grey hen in the parish of Nettleton, 

 near Caistor. 



133. SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS (Pallas). P alias's 



Sand-Grouse. 



In the second week in May 1863 a single bird of 

 this species was picked up dead by the keeper of W. 

 H. Daubney, Esq., in a potatoe-plat in the parish of 

 Little Cotes, near Grimsby. This bird is now, I 

 believe, in the possession of H. Thorold, Esq., of 

 Cuxwold Hall. 



Late in the autumn of the same year (as nearly as 

 I can ascertain, early in December) a flock numbering 

 between forty and fifty was seen in the parish of 

 Saltfleetby, on the Lincolnshire coast ; about twenty 

 of these were shot, the greater part by a wild-fowl- 

 shooter named Larder. Mr. Clayton, of Louth, in- 

 forms me that seven or eight of these passed through 

 his hands for preservation ; others were sent up from 



