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A flock of twenty-six at Tetney Lock, about the end of May, 

 seen by the son of Mr. Stubbs, a well-known wildfowl shooter, 

 living near that place. 



June 2nd. — One, a female, killed on the Bourne and Spalding 

 Eailway, and taken to Mr. Evans, of Bourne. Five seen in a 

 field between Lincoln and Beepham by my friend Mr. Jacob 

 Marshall, who was travelling by rail at the time. One shot by 

 Mr. Longstaff, of High Toynton, near Horncastle, and recorded 

 by the Bev. J. E. Wallis Loft. Eight found dead in a field at 

 Fulstow, a coast parish, and identified by Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh : 

 they are supposed to have been killed by eating poisoned barley, 

 of which their crops were full. These birds were so far decayed 

 that two only could be skinned and preserved. 



June 4th. — One seen on Cabourn Wold, and recorded by 

 Mr. Loft in ' The Field' of June 9th. 



June 9th. — One, as I am informed by Mr. J. Eardley Mason, 

 of Alford, was shot from a flock of twenty to thirty at Asserby, 

 in the parish of Bilsby. They had been observed to frequent a 

 barley-field for two or three days previously. 



June 14th. — Twenty-one on the wold at Horkstow, near 

 Barton-on-the-Humber. My informant, Mr. J. E. Turton, says, 

 "In their flight, which was from N.W. to S.E., they strongly 

 resembled Golden Plover, only they seemed reddish-brown birds 

 with long tails, and they had a peculiar clucking note, which 

 I heard before they appeared and after they were out of sight." 



June 15th. — A small flock of seven seen by Mr. Beulah, of 

 Baventhorpe, in the Forest- field, adjoining Bromby Common. 

 On the 17th, in the same place, five and nine, and on the 20th 

 two, a seven and a five — obviously the same as were seen on the 

 17th. The field is one of fifty-five acres, very quiet and retired ; 

 half was sown with turnips. Mr. Beulah says, " I first saw them 

 on the sandy soil running like partridges, but when they rose 

 I noticed their long, pointed wings and grouse-like flight." They 

 were last seen in the neighbourhood on July 9th. 



June 18th. — About this date two flocks of eight and twelve 

 on Humberstone fitties, lingering about the neighbourhood to 

 the end of the month ; two were shot. 



A flock of fifteen, seen by Stubbs, about the end of June, 

 near Tetney. 



July 8th. — Mr. J. Eardley Mason writes that Mr. Spencer 



