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OCCURRENCE OF THE HUMP-BACKED WHALE 
ON THE LINCOLNSHIRE COAST. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Lincoln. 
In the first week of September an example of this species, Megaptera 
longimana Rudolphi, was stranded on the Lincolnshire coast at 
Marsh Chapel. Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh, President of the Vertebrate 
Section of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, has sent me by letter, 
under date of September 8th, the following particulars taken on the 
spot :—‘ When I got there the captors had commenced cutting it 
up. It is a small specimen about twenty-five feet long. The tail 
and part of the carcase and one flipper were already gone. ‘The 
other flipper was partly under the body, and appeared to be seven or 
eight feet long, and perfectly white. Rest of body black, , ee 
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a few white marks on under side. I have secured the 
Hump-backed Whale, an Arctic species, has been recorded three 
times previously in t ritish seas, and the east coast of 
England had occurred as far south as near Newcastle-on-Tyne ;_ this 2 
was on the 19th September in 1829. 
Sept. 12th, 1894. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Flamborough Bird-Notes.—The vag! best specimen of the oe ( og ie 
sd sdt male, I have ever seen was shot here on August 2 
mn the look-out Mer them for several weeks. I have already noticed a shoe walt 
birds which come from the North to ke Headland making a to take their 
departure from us, no doubt to some other country far remote, such as the Redstart 
(Ruticilla phenicurus), Wheatear (Saxicola enanthe), Wagtails (Motacilla po ae 
Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), Nightjars (Caprimulyus europaeus), young in in 
at many Swallows (zr heey ich still kee ming set . 
numbers. I have not seen the Swift (Cypselus apus) since August en 
MATTHEW BAILEY, Flamborough, So asaber 14th, 1894. 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
Sclerochloa maritima and Plantago coronopus near Grange.—In Mr. 
pd dap 's ‘ Botanical Rambles about Arnside,’ it is stated iy ‘Sclerochloa maritima 
. was found somewhere ween Grange and Arnside. Where did the 
bape occur, in Lancashire or Westmorland? Mr. Baker, Lake Flow 235 
writes :—‘I have no record for either this or S. d¢staz 2s within our bounds, a 
have sought for them in vain in daa hs Which m means that to ab85 the enon 
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