356- CORDEAUX: NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
these birds of the year. Mr. Haigh says when flushed they rise with 
a single cry, and are not nearly so noisy as the Green Sandpiper ; 
and when they alight again, it is invariably in rough herbage, 
and not on bare muds or banks, as the latter does. Probably 
more examples have been seen this autumn than in the whole of 
the last ten years put together. 
‘Fotanus canescens (Gmel.). Greenshank. July 21st. One 
seen and another heard at Tetney by Mr. Haigh; this date is 
a very early one. I saw several in the same locality on 
Aug. 5th, and again on Saltfleet fitties on the 18th. They were 
pleasingly tame, having so far not been shot at. On the latter 
day I got quite close to one feeding on the mud-slope of the 
Haven side, and was able to watch its movements. 
Gallinago ceelestis (Frenz.). Snipe. August 5th. In consider- 
able numbers at this date, about the foreshores, near the coast. 
These are not ‘ over-the-sea’ snipe, but local birds, bred in the 
district, and which, about the middle of July, draw towards the 
coast-drains and fittie-pools. 
Tringa canutus Linn. Knot. August 5th. Some small flocks 
at Tetney. Tens of thousands on the Spurn muds at the end 
of September. A few old birds shot early in the season had 
faded red under-parts. 
Saxicola cenanthe (Linn.). Wheatear. Aug. 5th. I saw the 
first migratory Wheatears to-day. On the 31st many lovely 
birds, and some Yellow Wagtails ; and a month later, near the 
Holderness coast, Wheatears were still very numerous in fallow 
fields, and perching much on the low wind-clipt fences. Last 
observed on October 22nd. Nov. 8th. A very fine adult male 
in winter dress this afternoon on Easington fitties; on the 
presumption that a late Wheatear might perhaps turn out one of 
the rarer species visiting these islands, I observed it for some 
time at close quarters with a glass, so as to be quite certain of 
its identity. 
Totanus calidris (Linn.). Redshank. August 5th. In flocks 
of twenty to thirty on coast, also rising singly ; very many seen. 
Mr. Gatke writes: ‘14th August—commencing at 9 p-m., an 
lasting to 3 a.m. on sth. Millions of Z. calidris, Numenius 
Phaopus and arguata, Charadrius hiaticula, and all kinds of 
Tringe, mixed with as many call-notes of kindred folks unknown, 
or in the general chaos not to be made out. All must have 
crossed and passed over your part of the world. Here atmo- 
soe pitch dark, with the last of a Scottish mist and almost 
earn ¢ 
— 
Naturalist, 
