40 CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
driven, the salt fitties. On one occasion he saw them on 
a hedge. He has seen odd Snow Buntings with them. They 
were, however, almost always associated with Larks, both rising 
together and keeping in company. ‘They also mix with Green- 
finches, Reed Buntings, and Twites. 
eww linaria (L.). Mealy Redpole. November aist. 
w several to-day in the fields nearest my lodgings at 
reo some with very white rumps. 
Chiffchaff? November 21st, wind N., calm, very bright day. 
Mr. Bailey and I saw a ‘ leaf warbler,’ like a Chiffchaff, hawking 
for insects on the shelter-side of a plantation. It was a warm, 
sheltered hollow, with a high fence and Scotch firs in the 
background. This little bird, which was very tame, was not 
a Chiffchaff, for it had a very distinct wing-bar, legs reddish 
brown, a superciliary stripe, upper parts brownish, with quills 
and rectrices edged with greenish yellow, under parts nearly 
hite 
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Puffinus griseus (J. F. Gmelin). Sooty Shearwater. 
November 21st. There was a large dark Shearwater on the 
wing, close in shore near the Point. I had the glass on it for 
some time, and marked its extremely graceful, easy flight, just 
skimming the heavy seas. It was uniformly dark-coloured 
above and below, and probably referable to this species. 
Sterna. Tern. November 19th. During the terrific gale from 
the N. and N.E. (which, the fishermen say, was the worst they 
remember from this quarter at Flamborough) several Terns 
were seen off the Point. A most unusually late occurrence. 
Carduelis elegans (Stephens). Goldfinch. In the fortnight 
I was at Flamborough a small flock of about a dozen came 
regularly into the grass-field opposite the windows to one 
particular spot. The attraction, I found, was some thousands 
of the ripe heads of thistles, the screenings from the threshing 
machine spread on the lan 
Gulls. During the storm of the 18th and ht immense numbers 
of Gulls, Guillemots (Lomvia trotle), Razorbills (A/a torda), and 
various Divers came in from the sea and collected in Bridlington 
Bay on the sheltered side of the headland. The fishermen say 
that there were several Glaucous and Iceland Gulls (Larus 
glaucus and L. leucopterus). On December 1st I saw an 
immature Iceland Gull in the mottled yellowish-brown plumage 
at the north landing-place, also many others of various sorts, 
including both old and young Kittiwakes (Rissa tridacty/a) and 
a few immature brown-headed Gulls in most beautiful plumage. 
Naturalist, 
