The Zoologist — December, 1870. 2389 



Oniilhological Notes from North Lincolnshire. 

 By John Cordeaux, Esq. 



(Continued from S. S. 2338). 



September and October, 1870. 



Swift. — September 14. Last appearance ; two seen. 



Quail. — September 15. Have been quite common, both in the 

 marshes and on the wolds, and several have been shot ; in one case 

 three couple falling, in one day, to a single gun. These little birds 

 are most difficult to flush, especially after the first rise. One this 

 morning bothered both myself and dog for some time by most 

 persistently dodging round the turnip-bulbs : as it rose it uttered a 

 pleasant cheerful sort of "chirrup"; anxious for a specimen I fired 

 too quickly, and so smashed the little fellow as to render it useless as 

 a skin : it was excessively fat. 



Reeve. — September 15. Two, apparently birds of the year, brought 

 to-day for identification, were shot from a small flock on the "fitties" 

 by one of our wild-fowl shooters. 



Sanderling. — September 17. Three shot this morning at Spurn are 

 in transition ; all differ in plumage. At this stage they are, I always 

 think, the most delicate and chastely coloured of the Tringae, re- 

 minding one, in their quiet shadings of black, brown and gray, of the 

 same seasonal change in the ptarmigan. 



Hooded Crow. — September 26. First appearance, one seen ; not 

 general before the 10th of October. Sunday, the 9th, was wild and 

 stormy, a gale from N.N.E. to N.E., with torrents of rain ; by daylight 

 on Monday there were scores scattered over the stubble-fields and 

 along the shore. 



Starling. — September 26. Immense flights noticed this morning 

 near the coast. 



Wlieatear. — September 27. Last seen. 



Stonechat. — September 27. Many (females or young birds) observed 

 about the embankment and marsh ; are unusually plentiful. 



Curlew. — A flock of about two hundred passes each morning at 

 daybreak over this parish, bound for the wold hills, where I have seen 

 them, in company with rooks and sea-gulls, feeding in the large sheep 

 walks. They return each evening about five o'clock, but broken up 

 into smaller flocks, to the coast. 



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