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Falco zsalon Tunstall. Merlin. Sept. 24th. I have an immature 
female, shot near Easington on this date. Mr. Haigh saw one 
on the Tetney fitties on the 26th, and I saw at Mr. Kew’s, of 
Louth, an immature female shot on October rst on the coast 
near Mablethorpe 
Nyctea scandiaca (Linn.). Snowy Owl. Sept. 27th. One, an 
apparently pure white bird, was seen by Mr. Hewetson and 
Mr. Henry Marsh, of Leeds, myself, and another, in a fallow 
field near Easington lane end, and was under observation 
between five and ten minutes. The occurrence was fully 
recorded in ‘The Field’ newspaper of October 3rd. Snowy 
Owls are reported as having been very common in the south 
of Norway this year, De followed the Lemmings on their 
migration towards the c 
Ruticilla phenicurus eae Red start. Sept. 28th. One, 
a female or a young male, with Wheatears, near Easington lane 
same day; these are late occurrences for this bird to be on 
passage up the coast. he one seen by me on Sept. 28th flew 
down from a roadside hedge and picked up some small object 
from the grass ; it looked almost as dark as a Hedge Sparrow, 
which I thought it was, till I saw the red tail as it flew up. 
I did not see it again, although remaining near the place where 
it disappeared for some time, suspecting it might have been 
a young male of #. ¢“ztys. 
Alauda arvensis Linn. Lark. Sept. 28th. W. to S.W. strong. 
On the coast, near Kilnsea, early this morning, I saw some small 
flights come in directly from the sea-horizon, flying low so as 
just to clear the water, and dispersing at once in the fields along 
the coast. They passed in perfect silence and seemed very 
wing-tired and nearly exhausted. 
Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies 
All night across the darkness, and at dawn 
Falls on the threshold of her native land, 
‘And can no more. 
Mr. Haigh told me that, when on the North Cotes sands on 
October 2nd, he noticed Larks coming in all day, close to the 
ground, at intervals of about ten minutes and in flocks of less 
than a score. Oct. 17th, Easington, constant all day to south. 
Oct. 21st, Tetney, almost continuous all day to S.W. Oct. 
___ 21st to 29th, Holderness coast, immense numbers with others. 
Dec. 1891. 
