548 The Zoologist — January, 1807. 



Golden Plover. — October 12th. A single bird seen passing over, and 

 easily recognizable by its unwearied cry. 



Hooded Crow. — October 8th to 13th. Considerable numbers arrived 

 in this neighbourhood between these dates. 



Goldcrested Wren. — October 13th to 17th, wind E. to S. E. 

 Several of these minute and beautiful little creatures have been seen 

 about the marsh district during the past week, doubtless ou their 

 autumnal migration southward. It is remarkable with what punctu- 

 ality these little fellows arrive on our east coast about the middle of 

 this month, generally preceding the woodcocks. Spurn Point is a 

 great rendezvous for them, but numerous small flocks at this season 

 are seen on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber. It is astonishing 

 how so weak and small a bird succeeds in passing the many miles of 

 stormy sea at this wild season of the year. 



Chimney Swallow. — October 16th. Last seen. 



Woodcock. — October 18th, wind E. and blowing hard. One shot 

 this morning on the Humber embankment, evidently just arrived ; it 

 was an unusually small bird and in poor condition. This bird was 

 a great contrast to a woodcock I got from nearly the same spot on the 

 26'th, and which was in beautiful plumage and excessively fat, 

 weighing 12f ounces. 



Green Plover. — As usual these birds are in great force in the 

 marshes. In the stomach of one shot in a turnip- field on the 4th of 

 August I found a wire-worm, the remains of some small beetles, 

 several small sharp stones, and a little vegetable fibre. 



Redwing. — When out shooting to-day (October 29th) I observed 

 in every turnip-field I crossed great numbers of redwings. There has 

 evidently been a larger arrival of these birds in this neighbourhood, as 

 I crossed nearly the same ground on the 27th without seeing any. 



John Cordeaux. 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 

 October 30, 1866. 



falters on Ornithology. By Harry Blake-Knox, Esq. 



Letter IV. — A Natural History of the Kiltiwake Gull. 

 (Continued from S. S. 522). 



SYNOPSIS OF PLUMAGES. 



First Plumage. — Head and neck incline to be white ; ear-spot, 

 a band at base of neck, another through wing and end of tail black ; 



