360 PORDRAUE: NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
Scolopax rusticula Linn. Woodcock. Sept. 28th. One 
seen to drop in a bean-field at Kilnsea. Oct. 16th, half-gale 
from S.W.; one seen. Oct. 26th, Spurn, first flight, wind 
N.E., but comparatively few on this and following days ; greatest 
number obtained by one gun—eleven. Nov. 5th, there was 
a second flight at the Spurn this morning, with a N.E. wind. 
A few single ‘cocks’ also have been dropping in at intervals 
since the first flight on October 26th. Nov. 2tst, a third flight, 
four shot at Kilnsea. 
Podicipes fluviatilis (Tunst.). Little Grebe. Sept. 28th. 
Three appeared for the first time this season, on the ponds near 
Kilnsea coast beacon. Have been very common since this date. 
Cypselus apus (Linn.). Swift. Sept. 30th. I saw one near the 
Spurn lighthouse this morning. Easington, Oct. 18th. Swallows, 
House- Martins, and a few Swifts all day to south, low on sands 
and edges of cliff (Hewetson in litt.). 
Anser brachyrhynchus Baill. Pink-footed Goose. Sept. 30th. 
A large flock first appeared at Thorsway, on Lincolnshire Wolds, 
and others were heard passing over at Grainsby at daybreak on 
October 3rd. 
Gulls. Sept. 26th to 3oth inclusive, Easington and Kilnsea shore. 
The Gulls here are a wonder and marvel to me. Where can 
they all come from, and whither do they go? Since Saturday 
morning the 26th, to Tuesday night the 29th, it has been blow- 
ing almost continuously strong from S. and S.W., and during all 
this time Gulls have been passing, early and late, and all times 
during the day and probably also during the night, up the coast 
from the north to the south. I never look from the window to 
the line of sea across the hollow in the land, but I see large 
Gulls beating past against a head wind ; no sooner has one lot 
gone than another comes in sight. The number in each let 
vary from half a dozen to a score and upward, now in close 
order and then ina straggling fashion. The majority are Lesser 
Black-backed Gulls, both old and young; sometimes Herring 
Gulls or Great Black- backed, also some Kittiwakes. In four 
days the stream never diminished, but rather increased. On the 
fifth day (Sept. 30th) they were still passing, but in greatly 
reduced — and at a intervals of time between 
the flocks. es f sarter of an hour none came 
past. On this last day, tise all I saw) almost without exception, 
were young Lesser Black-backs, in the first year’s — 
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