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Falco tinnunculus Linn. Kestrel. Have been extraordinary 
abundant in Holderness and North Lincolnshire in September. 
I have never seen so many in any previous year. A few 
Sparrowhawks also, but few compared with the former. 
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). Cormorant. Is becoming a 
very common species about the estuary of the Humber, in 
localities on both coasts where only a few years since we very 
rarely saw one. 
Corvus cornix Linn. Grey Crow. Oct. 6th, a few seen by 
Stubbs, at Tetney. Several on the stubbles at early morning 
at Great Cotes on the roth. 
inci aml gel (Linn.). Twite. Oct. oth, Mr. Haigh, 
ho w n the coast to- day, says Twites were coming in 
hehe 26 Rock. Pipits, Song-Thrushes, Starlings, Robins, 
and Rooks were numerous. Also Corn Buntings ; a flock of the 
latter, numbering about 100, rose from turnips close to the coast. 
Fringilla montifringilla Linn. Brambling. Oct. oth, Mr. 
Haigh picked up an old cock dead in the long grass on the 
North Cotes bank, where it had probably dropped exhausted on 
reaching land. Oct. 22nd. S.W. light; young female shot in 
same locality. 
Asio accipitrinus (Pall.). Short-eared Owl. Oct. 9th. One 
flushed on a stubble at North Cotes, and the first I have heard 
of this season. Oct. 24th. A few near Spurn, a strong N.E. 
wind blowing, and many in first week of November. 
Turdus merula Linn. Blackbird. Oct. roth. Early this 
morning it was evident that there had been a considerable 
influx of Blackbirds during the night. I counted at Great 
Cotes in a few minutes at least fifty, also some Thrushes and 
Mistletoe ‘Thrushes, pass from one thorn to another, and all 
working their way in the same direction from the coast inland. 
Turdus torquatus Linn. Ring Ouzel. Oct. 1st. One shot 
at Little Cawthorpe, near Louth. Oct. 16th. One shot at 
Easington and another on the 18th, and from the 21st to the 
end of the month many adult, both male and female, came in 
on the Holderness coast with Fieldfares. 
Fringilla celebs Linn. Chaffinch. Oct. 15th. Chaffinches in 
flocks to south. 21st, wind S. fresh, Tetney coast, large 
flocks all day to S.W 
Corvus frugilegus fee Rook. Oct. 16th. S.W. half-a-gale, 
Easington coast, constant streams from sea-horizon inland. 
_22nd. , Tetney, a few to south during day. 
Dee. 1897 
