1942 Thk Zoologist — Decembek, 1869. 



Mr. Eeelis, in reference to this narrative, says, " Allhongh I have 

 never had the good fortune to observe frogs in actual progression up 

 trees, I have frequently found them in, apparently to ihem, inac- 

 cessible places, such as the tops of pollard willows in the vicinity 

 of streams — situations, in fact, which could only be attained by 

 climbing."— Zoo/. 8927. 



Frog history is so attractive and so abundant that it would be an 

 agreeable and easy task to extend this chapter to a still greater length, 

 but I forbear, leaving the Romance of their Natural History to be 

 worked out by others : their longevity and abstinence whilst innnured 

 in stone or coal are prolific fields for the sensation naturalists, to whom 

 I must abandon this most tempting theme. 



Edwaru Newman. 



Noles from Spurn Point. By John Cokdeacx, Esq. 



October 11 ih, 12th and 13ih, 1869. 



There is no season more favourable for an ornithological ramble 

 on our eastern shores than the first fortnight in October; whether we 

 choose the Lincolnshire coast, or that of Holderness, for our " happy 

 hunting grounds," wc are almost sure to obtain something worth 

 having, and to find much more that is worth seeing and remembering. 

 An invitation from a friend to join his yacht for a three days' cruise 

 off Spurn and the mouth of the Humber came most opportunely for 

 my purpose, and on ihe afternoon of Monday the 11th, I went on 

 board the cutter lying in the Hawke Roads, Grimsby. At four in the 

 afternoon we were anchored, under shelter of the land, half a mile to 

 the N.W. of the Spurn lights. 



In a former volume of the ' Zoologist' (S. S. 1317) I have given a 

 short account of the long narrow ridge of sand-hills known as Spurn 

 Point, extending trunk-like from the coast line of Holderness and 

 terminated by the two lighthouses marking the entrance to the 

 Humber, dividing the main sea from the estuary of that river. The 

 nearest village is that of Kilnsea, four miles from the Point, and the 

 average breadth of the promontory at spring-tides probably not much 

 over one hundred yards. The whole coast is much of the same 

 character, although on a smaller scale, as that described by Mr. 

 St. John as fringing the Moray Frith. On the Humber side there is at 

 low water a wide extent of mud-flat and mussel scalps exposed, the 



