ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 



FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT, IN THE 



AUTUMN OF 1889. 



JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B. O. U., 

 Great Cotes, Ulcchy, Lincolnshire. 



Two-barred Crossbill {Loxia bifasciata). An adult male 

 shot at South Cockerington near Louth, as recorded in the 

 present number of The Naturalist, 1890, p. 14. 



Turnstone {Strepsilas interpres). I have seen a pair at intervals 

 through the summer on some fittie land in the parish of 

 Stallingborough. They were not in mature plumage. 



Oyster-catcher {Hamatopus ostralegus). Two have been seen 

 near this same place, either together or single, to the end of 

 June. 



Whimbrel {jVninenius phaopus). July 9th, first on return 

 journey. 



Teal {Qtierquedula creccd). Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh informs 

 me that considerable numbers were seen at Tetney on this date. 



Greenshank {Totanus canescens). August 8th, first observed. 

 Have been by no means uncommon in August and September 

 on the coasts of the Humber. 



Redpole {Linota rufescens). Occurs usually in small numbers 

 as an Autumn migrant, but of late years has also bred 

 regularly in this parish (Great Cotes) and district, and is 

 becoming quite common. 



Curlew {Niiiiiemus arquata). August loth, in considerable 

 numbers, birds of the year, on the coast and sea-marshes. 



Black Tern {Hydrochelidon nigra). August 28th, saw an adult 

 bird on the wing along the shore near Tetney Haven ; it is the 

 only one, old or young, I have seen this autumn. 



Sand-Grouse {Syrrhaptes paradoxus). August 28th, a pair, sup- 

 posed to be male and female, the former in very fine plumage, 

 were seen to-day in a field on the Stallingborough Kiln Farm, 

 near the Humber. The field was half under cultivation in 

 peas, the remainder fallow. I went, subsequently, to look at the 

 place, and found it just as my informant, George Skelton, had 

 said. He was watching for Wood-pigeons, and saw the birds 



Jan. 1890. 



