OS THE ZOOLOGIST. 



with black breasts, and two Grey Plover also in summer plumage, 

 also Green Sandpiper and the Common Sandpiper on the ponds 

 near Kilnsea Beacon ; on the Warren the Greater Whitethroat 

 and many Wheatears. 



Sept. 6th. Redstart on passage through this parish ; and on 

 the 7th great numbers of Wheatears. 



Sept. 23rd. First Woodcock seen. Under date of Nov. 10th, 

 a curious note comes to me from the Swin Middle l.v. : when 

 the lantern was lowered at sunrise a fine Woodcock was found 

 dead on the top. Now if the bird had struck the lantern in flight 

 it would either have fallen on deck or into the sea ; the probability 

 therefore is that it alighted on the lantern top, and simply died from 

 exhaustion. 



October 2nd. Large numbers of Redbreasts appeared about 

 this date ; they are particularly plentiful in the hedgerows near 

 the coast. A young friend who was fishing, on October 1st, 

 ate in the evening, at Croxby Pond, — a lone sheet of water 

 surrounded by plantations, in the heart of the North Wolds, — 

 first heard and then saw a pair of Ravens. He is well acquainted 

 with the birds, having watched them in their haunts in Nor- 

 way, and I have not the least doubt of the correctness of his 

 observation. 



Oct. 12th. Driving this morning along the straight road from 

 Tetney to the coast, in a field to the left, next to the coast-guard 

 station, my attention was attracted to a large handsome high- 

 standing Pipit, which I am only able to identify with Anthus 

 richardi, an Heligoland example of which I obtained this 

 year. There were several Larks on the ground near it, several 

 also on the wing, small numbers coming in at intervals during 

 the morning and passing inland ; compared with these, it 

 appeared larger and stood considerably higher ; the breast was 

 very distinctly marked with numerous elongated spots. During 

 the short time I was able to observe it the bird seemed shy and 

 wary, stretching out its neck, and the moment I attempted to get 

 down it was off, keeping on the wing till lost sight of. Richard's 

 Pipit is also supposed to have been seen at Spurn this autumn. 

 I saw one Greenshank to-day on the Tetney " fitties," and heard 

 another calling ; Mr. Caton Haigh told me he had seen more of 

 them in September than in any previous year : on a flat coast 

 it is an extremely difficult bird to approach, rising a long way 



