THE ZooLocist— DECEMBER, 1875. 4709 
Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire. 
By Joun Corpraux, Esq. 
(Continued from §. S. 4670.) 
OcToBER, 1875. 
Jack Snipe.—October 5th. First seen; a single bird. 
Great Snipe.—One was shot in the parish of Ravendale, on the 
wolds, rising from turnips, about the middle of September. 
Shoveler.—October 8th. I found the stomach of a young male 
shoveler, skinned this evening, crammed with small seeds exactly 
resembling trefoil, also many small angular stones, 
Redthroated Diver.—October 12th. A very fine male, having a 
perfect cochineal neck-patch, was shot off the Spurn coast by 
Edward Wheldrake, fisherman, of that place. Young birds of the 
year have not been uncommon on the coast this autumn. 
Goldcrested Wren.—October 16th to 24th. Very considerable 
numbers arrived in flocks between these dates. I first observed 
them on the 16th. On the night of the 23rd we had a gale from 
E. and S.E., with much heavy rain: early the next morning 
(Sunday) a man who lives in a cottage near our sea embankment, 
on leaving the house, found his garden swarming, as he described 
them, with “tiny birds like wrens, having a yellow patch on the 
top of the head.” There were as many as seven or eight on a 
single plant, and so tame that he several times all but succeeded 
in catching them. They all left again before the evening. 
Woodcock.—The first flight arrived on the morning of the 15th. 
The previous night we had a very heavy gale from N. to N.E. and 
E., with heavy rain. Others came in during the following fort- 
night—notably on the night of Friday, the 29th. I know one 
well-known sportsman, a crack shot, living near the coast, who 
succeeded in bagging thirteen couples in one day. 
Hooded Crow.—The main body arrived between the 15th and 
19th. 
Golden Plover.—October 23rd. First flight seen. 
Waterhen.—October 23rd. Very heavy rains and floods on the 
22nd and 28rd. This afternoon I put up quite a large flock of 
moorhens, certainly not less than thirty, I should say. They flew 
in a tolerably compact body into a group of “blow-wells” in the 
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