194C The Zoologist — December, 1869. 



Half-an-honr later and the "little lady" was beating out of the bay, 

 with a heavy sea running. Near the Bull-float light-ship we picked 

 up a heavily laden boat containing three men and a boy, considerably 

 done up: the poor fellows had. pulled for twenty -six hours without 

 intermission, having separated frora their smack in a fog twenty miles 

 from the Humber moulh. 



During the run home a small bird flew across our bow suspiciously 

 like a little auk. My friend had seen a similar bird off the mouth of 

 the Humber during the previous week, and thought it a young 

 guillemot, but this could hardly be the case at this season. 



During our short stay at Spurn we had seen thirty-tight species of 

 birds. An interesting feature of the autumn Oruilhology of the 

 Point was the juxta))osition of summer and winter visitors : thus 

 along the coast where the terns were fishing ran troops of knot, 

 godwit and gray plover. On the sand-hills twites, bramblings and 

 snow buntings fed, while troops of swallows vvere still careering aloft 

 in full vigour and enjoyment. 



I have to thank Mr. Richardson, of Beverley, for the following 

 notices of birds shot at or near Spurn during the autumn: — 



Spotted Redshank : Knot in Summer Plumage at Spurn. — A Mr. 

 Beautyman, innkeeper, Beverley, was at Spurn on the 23rd of August, 

 and shot an immature male spotted redshank ; also a male knot in 

 full summer plumage. 



Stork (Ciconia alba) in Holderness. — Mr. Richardson saw at 

 Mr. P. Lawton's, innkeeper, Kasington, a white stork, which vvas 

 shot near Withernsea, early in September, by a man named Craw- 

 forth. 



Peregrine Falcon and Curlew Sandpiper at Spurn. — A gentleman 

 who was at Spurn, with Mr. Richardson, early in October, shot on 

 the 8th a peregrine falcon, a male of the second year, and on the 9th 

 a male curlew sandpiper from amongst a flock of dunlin. 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 

 October 19, 1869. 



