364 NOTES—BIRDS. 
of eighteen seen in a locality where they regularly occur each 
winter. 
Corvus corax Linn. Raven. Mr. Jalland, of Hull, who was 
shooting at Kilnsea, told me that he saw a Raven come in 
on Noy. 5th, in advance of a flock of Grey Crows; the size 
in comparison with the Crows was very marked. 
Picus major Linn. Great Spotted Woodpecker. One, 
which I have, was shot at Welwick, near Easington, Nov. 3rd. 
It is a young male, with the red on the crown and occiput catch 
broken into with black. Another, also a male, was killed at the 
same date at Roos, in Holderness. 
Plectrophanes nivalis (Linn.). Snow Bunting. Nov. 8th. 
I saw some very large flocks of old and young at Kilnsea to-day. 
Hirundo rustica Linn. Chimney Swallow. Nov. 8th. I saw 
two on Kilnsea Warren on passage from north to south, and in 
both separate cases with Snow Bunting—a curious combination 
of spring and winter visitors. One was seen at Grainsby on 
Nov. 13th. 
se ae: septentrionalis Linn. Red-throated Diver. Nov. 
8th. Noticed several on the sea to the east of Spurn. 
Marsh Harrier i a 
I soit a Marsh Harrier (Circus cruginos) e a poulter er’s shop in Holborn. 
n its first end ibe nd the salesman told me that it had ps shot 
It w: 
in mst ire.—EpG R. Watts The rian Leeds, 17th Nov., I. 
Cirl Bunting Nesting near Masham.—On August 24th, 1891, I sent what 
I took to be a youn g Cirl An Ee (Emberiza cirlus) to Mr. Eagle Clarke, of the 
and which has since been identified by 
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s attracted to the spot by the shrill note, of alarm of the hen bird, sare 
was perched upon a neighbouring tree, having ak full of insect: food, wi 
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I decided to give them their liberty. On September 5th, 1887, whilst procurins 
food for trel from a cf peli and Y rf h bs 1 found that 
had unknowingly killed a young male Cirl Bunting in mistake for a hen Yellow- 
ham me to think that the pair let he autumn of I 
Tear rood in Phe and th spring, to whic oung male shot mm 
autumn of 1 » and that whey bare = the means introducing a new 
