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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Lincoin. 
(Continued from page 362, 1893.) 
Calcarius lapponicus (L.). Lapland Bunting. Mr. Matthew 
Bailey has already recorded in the ‘ Naturalist’ for December 
the occurrence of a flock of Lapland Buntings at Flam- 
borough. These appear to have arrived about the second 
week in November, about the time when the Snow Buntings 
came in such immense numbers. On the 21st, when, in company 
with Mr. Bailey, I was most fortunate in finding the flock in 
some barley-stubble swarming with many sorts of small birds. 
The Buntings, which kept well together, were feeding on the 
ground, and on our approach took in a body to the side and 
top of a rough unkept fence, but almost immediately began to 
drop by two and three together to the stubble and commence 
feeding. This was often repeated, both then and subsequently - 
when I again visited the field. There were a few Linnets mixed 
with the flock, and three very bright Siskins. ‘They numbered 
altogether over one hundred, and the Lapland Buntings had 
received a considerable accession to their number when I visited 
the field the second time. The flock was a mixed one of males 
and females, and probably also young birds of the year. In 
their habits they are like Reed Buntings or Tree Sparrows, and 
might easily be mistaken for either of these. On the 22nd they 
had become very wild, and mixed with Larks and other small 
birds, so that I quite failed to get near them with a gun. They 
did not appear to mix freely with Snow Buntings, their habits 
being quite dissimilar, and keeping much to the vicinity of 
bushes and hedgerows, but latterly scattered far and wide. 
Mr. Bailey said that on their first arrival—and this ve also the 
case when I first saw them—they were fairly t 
but after the 21st, when there was a sharp frost and a recurrence 
of very rough weather, they became extremely wild. On the 
21st of December Mr. Haigh met with a flock near the 
Lincolnshire coast at North Cotes, but so wild he could not 
shoot any. On the following day he killed four at a shot, 
all males. There were twenty or thirty together, but always 
mixed with Larks, so that it was difficult to estimate their 
number. On the 23rd he saw the flock again and several 
scattered birds, and got three, one presumably a female. They 
___4ppear, he says, to frequent grasslands, young wheat, and, when 
Feb. 1894, 1894. 
