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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 
FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT, IN THE 
AUTUMN OF 1801. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.0.U,, 
Eaton Hall, Retford, 
BEYOND my own personal observations on both sides of the Humber 
in the autumn of 1891, my best thanks are due in preparing this 
notice to Mr.-G. H. Caton Haigh, of Grainsby Hall, for his many 
excellent notes, taken by him in connection with the Lincolnshire 
coast; also to Mr. Hewetson, of Leeds, and Mr. Philip Loten, of 
Easington, for information on the migration of birds on the coast of 
Holderness. 
Totanus ochropus (Linn.). Green Sandpiper. June 2oth. 
Was first observed on this date on the Humber-side ponds on 
Easington fitties. Generally, they visit our small streams and 
becks in July, and in August and September are often in 
considerable numbers. 
Porzana maruetta (Leach). Spotted Crake. I saw one in 
Mr. Kew’s shop which was killed against the telegraph wire, 
near Louth, about the middle of June. Mr. Haigh told me 
that when snipe-shooting last year, he found two old nests, 
presumably belonging to the Spotted Crake, amongst sedges 
(Carex riparia) growing in an old disused river-channel, they 
were like those of a waterhen, but less in size, and composed of 
fine grasses and sedges. 
Numenius phzopus (Linn.). Whimbrel. Mr. Haigh saw 
a few at Tetney on July oth, and I heard them passing over 
at Great Cotes on the 16th; very plentiful all through the 
season. I saw a few at Spurn on Sep. 3oth. 
Totanus hypoleucus (Linn.). Common Sandpiper. A few 
in pairs on the coast-drains, in the second week in July. On 
Aug. 5th I found them extremely plentiful on the mud-slopes of 
Tetney Haven, rising in quick succession so as almost to form 
a considerable flock, and, with bent wings, following the course 
of the outfall through the fitties. 
Totanus glareola (Linn.). Wood Sandpiper. Mr. Haigh 
flushed three, widely apart, on July 21st, from the sides of old 
disused creeks, amongst cultivated land near the coast. Subse- 
quently several have been seen and obtained in August, on both 
___ sides of the Humber. Altogether I have examined six, and all of 
1891. : 
