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One is recorded in the < Zoologist' for 1871 (p. 2562) 

 as killed on the ' ' seashore at Goswick, parish of Holy 

 Island/' coast of Northumberland, in the first week 

 in November 1870. 



143. (EDICNEMUS CREPITANS, Temminck. Stone 



Curlew. 

 Provincial. Thick-knee. 



Abundant before the enclosure of the Lincolnshire 

 and Yorkshire wolds and heaths, but now restricted 

 to a few favourable localities. Is still found in some 

 numbers on the extensive sandy warrens and com- 

 mons near Frodingham, in the Trent district, where I 

 am told that from twenty to thirty may still be seen 

 in the course of a day. A few years ago, however, 

 they were much more abundant. It breeds every 

 season in that locality. 



In East Yorkshire a few nest annually on Spalding 

 Moor, near Holme, Beverley also on Tollington 

 Moor, near Market-Weighton ; but Mr. Boulton says 

 it is becoming quite rare on the Yorkshire Wolds, 

 where formerly it was abundant*. Mr. Yarrell 

 (British Birds, vol. ii. 2nd ed., p. 438), on the autho- 

 rity of Mr. Williamson, says, "in the vicinity of 

 Scarborough they breed on the fallows, and often 

 startle the midnight traveller by their shrill and 

 ominous whistle." 



* See < Zoologist' for 1864, p. 9282. 



