690 The Zoologist— April, 1867. 



longer than those of the right side. The stomach contained a few 

 rowan-berries. 



Little Auk. — On the 30th of November, during a gale from S.E., a 

 little auk was found in a wet ditch not more than fifty yards from the 

 sea. The stomach was quite empty. 



Henry L. Saxby. 



Baltasound, Shetland, December 31, 1866. 



Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire 

 By John Cordeadx, Esq. 



(Continued from S. S. 548). 



January and February, 1867. 



Plovers, Golden and Green. — The sharp frost, commencing with 

 the new year, occasioned a general exodus of plovers from the North 

 Lincolnshire marshes; and on the 2nd of January not one was left in 

 those places where a few days previously they had congregated in 

 thousands. It has often puzzled me where all the plovers go to 

 during a season of frost and snow, certainly none remain here, or on 

 the Lincolnshire sea-coast; and when all places are alike in our 

 Island, as during the severe weather in January, the earth frost-bound, 

 and with a deep covering of snow, they may probably leave the 

 country altogether. Perhaps some of the numerous readers of the 

 1 Zoologist' will say whether they observed any unusually large flocks 

 of both these species in any locality during the continuation of the 

 severe weather in January. If they remain in England I am quite sure 

 that the advent of these immense flocks of plovers in any other quarter 

 of the kingdom must attract altention. On the 23rd a rapid thaw 

 commenced, and on the morning of the 24th the marshes were clear 

 of snow ; and on this morning, a few hours after the disappearance of 

 the snow, considerable flocks of golden plover, had returned to their 

 old haunts. The peewits did not, however, come back till fully ten 

 days after this date. I was surprised to find, out of some twenty golden 

 plovers shot in the marshes on the 9th of February, one which had 

 nearly acquired the black pectoral livery of summer, the others as yet 

 showing no appearauce of any change of plumage. 



Wood Pigeon. — During the severe weather of January, hundreds of 

 these birds daily frequented the turnip-fields, feeding on the green tops 



