LOCAL OBSERVATION 13 



" October \\th, 1888. 



" I am exceedingly obliged to you for yours of the I3th, 

 and the interesting information therein contained, as well 

 as for the paper on the sand-grouse in the Spurn district. 



f ' I do not know of one of these wanderers having been 

 killed in this county this year, but I have good authority 

 for the appearance in this neighbourhood of three together, 

 and two solitary individuals. The first of these passed 

 over the head of my informant within fifteen yards, with 

 its feet hanging from the weight of the clay adhering." 1 



" Bournemouth, October 315 f, 1888. 



" The first woodcock positively seen near Lilford was 

 on October i8th, the first grey crow on October ist. 

 Fieldfares, earlier than in any previous record, on 

 September 29th. I have authentic information of a flock 

 of some twenty felts in Cambridgeshire on September 5th. 



" I have heard of the great crested grebes breeding 

 on several of the reservoirs in the southern division of 

 our county for some years, and latterly on a large pond 

 in the northern division, and also close to our frontier 

 in Rutland." 2 



"December igth, 1889. 



cc This has been a very peculiar autumn, in its average 

 extraordinary mildness. We had snow and a few days 

 of sharp frost in many places, but now foggy mornings, 



1 To John Cordeaux, Esq. 



2 To the same. 



