THe ZooLocist—NovemBeEr, 1875. 4669 
Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire. 
By Joun Corpeaux, Esq. 
(Continued from §. S. 4618.) 
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1875. 
Godwit.—August 4th. Wind north on this and previous days; 
temperature low, with much rain. First autumnal appearance of 
godwit on the mud flats. 
Whimbrel.— Many whimbrel heard passing over on their 
southern migration during the first teu days in the month. 
Gray Plover.—August 19th. Some young birds of the year on 
the Humber foreshore. 
Knot.—August 19th. First young knot seen. 
Reeve.—September Ist. I got two reeves to-day, shot in the 
marshes: there were two others in the same pasture, feeding with 
starlings, and rising at the same time. Also a ruff and seven 
reeves on my marsh pastures during a greater part of the month: 
they occasionally cross the embankment and feed on the muds in 
company with other waders. 
Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler.—September 4th. I saw 
several about this date in the marsh, evidently on their move 
south. None seen after this date. 
Pied Flycatcher.—September 16th. Wind north-east on this 
and previous day, blowing rather stiffly. Saw a pied flycatcher 
this morning, a bird of the year, hawking at the marsh farmstead 
from the stack-yard rails. The bird was extremely lively, con- 
stantly capturing small flies and insects from the projecting straws 
along the stack sides; sometimes fluttering to the ground to seize 
some small object among the grass blades—exactly as I have seen 
them capturing insects on the wooded sides of the Cumberland 
fells. 
Snow Bunting.—September 16th. One seen, apparently an old 
male. ‘The earliest occurrence previously recorded by me in this 
district was at Spurn on the llth of October. I saw this bird 
nearly every day for some time in the same locality ; it was always 
extremely tame, permitting an approach within a few feet. No 
more seen till to-day (October 5th), when I found a young bird of 
the year, in company with a rock pipit, on our Humber embank- 
ment. 
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