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ascertained that, although a second specimen had been shot neai* 

 Flaraborongh, the capture was not since the one shot on September 

 21st, 1864, but no less than three years ago. I have purchased this 

 bird through Mr. M. Bailey, of Flamborough, and have received with 

 it the following history. Mr. Bailey says : — "It was shot in the 

 month of June, 1861, by Aaron Chew, gamekeeper, of Flamborough, 

 in the Danes-Dyke, near that place." 



Bramhli7ig Finch and Fieldfare. — I have never known such flocks 

 of bramblings occur near Beverley as have visited us this autumn. In 

 former years I have met with a i^^w of these birds every autumn, but 

 this year (1864) they have appeared in flocks like fieldfares. Field- 

 fares, too, have visited us in unusual numbers, and this fact perhaps 

 appears more marked, as last year we had fewer of the winter mi- 

 gratory birds than I ever recollect. 



W. W. BOULTON. 

 Beverley, December 8, 1864. 



Ornithological Notes from Ulcehy, Lincolnshire. 

 By John Cordeaux, Esq. 



Redwing, Plover, 8fc. — I have frequently heard remarks lately on 

 the unusually large number of fieldfares and redwings which have 

 arrived on our eastern shores this autumn ; and these remarks have 

 been made by persons who are not in the habit of making ornitholo- 

 gical observations. With regard to this neighbourhood, I never 

 remember fieldfares and redwings more plentiful, particularly the 

 redwing, many of our tall old hedgerows, which this autumn looked 

 quite scarlet with haws, being literally crowded with these birds; 

 while in the low meadow-grounds large flocks of fieldfares may gene- 

 rally be seen feeding. In the stubble fields near the Humber are 

 flocks of snow buntings, and in much greater numbers than have ap- 

 peared since the severe winter of 1860—61. Up to the middle of 

 December immense flights of green plovers have frequented the low 

 grounds. These birds did not arrive in any quantity till fully a month 

 after the usual time of arrival. This circumstance was probably 

 owing to the unusually dry season : as soon as the ground became 

 thoroughly saturated with the heavy rains early in November, the 

 plovers arrived. This week (December 17th), with the exception of a 

 few scattered flocks, the peewits have left us, and their place is taken 



