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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
SPRING OF 1892. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Eaton Hall, Retford. 
Larus ridibundus. Brown-headed Gull. March rsth. First 
return to their nesting quarters at Twigmoor. 
Crex pratensis. Corncrake. April 25th. One picked up at 
Kilnsea, probably injured against wire. Are numerous this 
season. 
Ruticilla titys. Black Redstart. April 29th. Mr. G. E. Clubley, 
of the Warren Farm, Kilnsea, saw a fine adult male on the beach, 
near his house. Several Common Redstarts (2. phenicurus) were 
seen about the same date. 
Lanius excubitor. Great Grey Shrike. April 30th. One 
was seen on a hedge near the coast at Out- Newton, in 
Holderness. 
Regulus cristatus. Golden-crested Wren. A few appeared 
at the Spurn in the last week in April on migration. 
Sylvia atricapilla. Blackcap. May 1st. One, a female, at 
early morning, observed in the gooseberry bushes in garden at 
Easington. 
Squatarola helvetica. Grey Plover. May ist. Hundreds, in 
various stages of plumage, on the coast near Kilnsea. Some of 
these were very fine birds, in perfect summer plumage. 
Tringa alpina. Dunlin. May ist. Thousands, in summer 
plumage, on the coast. I have rarely seen them in greater 
numbers, the flocks covering a considerable extent of the 
Humber foreshore, opposite Kilnsea, at half-tide. 
Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. May ist. In small numbers 
at Kilnsea, on the sea side of the warren. 
Tringa canutus. Knot. May, first week. Fairly common up 
to this date on Humber foreshores. 
Sterna minuta. Lesser Tern. May ist. First observed. 
A pair seen on coast near the warren. 
Haliaétus albicilla. Sea Eagle. May 2nd. Mr. David Pye, 
of Easington, and two others, when to-day driving near Roos 
rabbit-warren, saw an eagle on a bank top. When one of their 
July 1892, 
