Bolam: The Natural History of Hornsea Mere. ax 
Mallards, Shovelers, etc., near Holmes’s promontory at Hornsea, 
which I could not identify. They were very dark, showing 
almost no light in the wings or underneath, and were not much 
larger than Teal.. I set them down as ‘ escapes’, and certainly 
not ‘British.’ They were not seen again. 
On 24th May, and for some time later at intervals, I listened 
to a song on the landward border of Heslop’s reeds about 
which I could not satisfy myself. It was, I think, the note of 
a Crake of some kind, but had a very curious Bunting-like 
‘lilt’ about it, and if it belonged to either the Water-Rail or 
Spotted Crake—both of which were nesting and calling there- 
abouts—it was a note I had not previously heard, and one 
which I did not think belonged to them. To commit a bird’s 
song to paper’is no easy task, so much depending upon the 
reading and intoning of the words by different people, but 
in my journal I entered this one as tick-tick-tick, ting, ter-r-r-r, 
repeated at intervals, with a cadence strongly recalling the 
song of a bunting. It was, however, uttered by some bird 
from the densest of the herbage. 
APPENDIX. 
Captain Bethell, R.N., kindly gave me the following note 
of his rainfall records at Sigglesthorne; for comparison, 
some of the figures from the two previous years being added. 
The fall is in inches and decimals, and for the weeks be- 
ginning with the dates given. The records for the earlier 
periods of rgro0 and rogr1r had unfortunately been mislaid. 
Igo. IgIt. IgI2. 
i _ April. 25 falls: “o.00 
8 0-06 
May 5 Or15 
peep na 0-94 
lho 2°01 
DE ai 20 0°42 
8 June 5. 0-00 june ae 1.48 
June 13’ fall o-oo ibe AS Oras 9 37 
Pat 0:68 6ALO) 1°88 RBA G5 O'51 
ey 0°99 wi 520, | age ke 1°55 
July 4 RO. cilihy 3 v1.0:22 3 80 1°42 
fy ee 0-01 Pedi (owe o0)-079) july? “7 0:24 
say. 18 0°57 hei iy ame Eto 676, mt ket 0°63 
aS 0°88 yA Oe 
1913 Jan.1, 
