176 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Oct. 13th, 1 p.m., fog, a Wren and Redbreast seen. At Cromer, 
May 23rd, 1 a.m., a great many Wrens; two killed, also one Red- 
breast; May 27th, 11 p.m., Wrens and Whitethroats, five killed 
(these last notes are referable to the spring migration) ; Sept.12th, 
Wrens and three Redbreasts strike glass. At Spurn this autumn 
the Common Wren did not appear before the middle of December ; 
they usually arrive about the end of October.t Redbreasts were 
very numerous at Spurn on Oct. 30th, wind blowing very fresh 
from N.E. None reported from Heligoland, but a great many 
Accentor modularis on Oct. 29th, wind S.E. and E. 
GOLDEN-CRESTED WrEN.—Most exceptionally scarce; only one 
mentioned, at the Cockle, on Oct. 16th, at 3 p.m., wind N.N.E., 
when one came on board and was caught. ‘Three were seen in a 
garden near Spurn on Oct. 27th and 28th; none, so far as I am 
aware, on any part of the Lincolnshire and Durham coasts, neither 
are they mentioned in the Heligoland report. 
Tirmicr.—At the Gull-stream, Sept. 17th, 3.20 a.m., thick, 
rain, EK., several Titmice seen round lantern amongst the Fly- 
catchers. Mr. Giitke remarks, “ ‘There have been no Parus major 
all this autumn, and we have actually seen only one bird”; early 
in October, “daily some Parus ater, that come here rarely but 
when there is an appearance of easterly winds.” 
WueEATEAR.—At Hunstanton, May 24th, 11 p.m. to2a.m., drizzly 
rain, forty-one small birds killed, amongst them three Wheatears. 
At Cromer, Aug. 16th, 1 a.m., several Wheatears ; four killed. 
Trirtark, Anthus sp.?—At Spurn, May 25th, 1 a.m., rain, 
several Titlarks killed (referable to the spring migration), At 
the South-sand Head, Oct. 12th, 3 a.m., N.E., dense fog, Titlarks, 
amongst thousands of other birds, around and passing lantern. 
SuoreE Lark, Otocorys alpestris—On Dec. 19th two were shot 
from a small flock on the Humber side of Spurn Point; these 
were received in the flesh on the 22nd by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, of 
Leeds.{ At Heligoland, on Oct. Ist, ‘‘some flights”; 5th, ‘some 
score”; 8th, ‘‘a greatmany”; 10th, “many flights”; on the 24th 
likewise, and again on the 29th, ‘‘ many.” 
+ A friend, the owner of several steam-tugs, informs me that he has frequently 
known the Common Wren to come on board his vessels when far from land on the 
North Sea.—J. C. 
t Mr. Clarke subsequently informed me that on March 18th, this year, he saw a 
flock of about twenty Shore Larks at Spurn, and that during the past winter thirty- 
three have been shot there, in the proportion of two males to one female.—J. C. 
