CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 15 
Sula bassana (L.). Gannet. Sept. 4th. Several, in all states 
of plumage, off coast, between Donna Nook and Saltfleet 
Haven. Also 
Stercorarius crepidatus Gm. Arctic Skua. In some numbers 
about this date 
Sylvia hortensis Bechstein. Garden-Warbler. September sth. 
One at North Cotes, Mr. Haigh says the first he has ever seen 
on migration. September 7th, another. A great rush of small 
birds this week: Whitethroats, Redstarts, Wheatears, Willow- 
Wrens. At Flamborough 
Saxicola cenanthe L. Wheatears. Swarmed the first week in 
September 
Phylloscopus viridanus (Blyth). Greenish Tree Warbler. 
Sept. 5th. Shot by Mr. Haigh from the ‘great hedge’ at North 
Cotes on the Lincolnshire coast. It is new to Britain, but 
exhibited by Mr. Haigh at the meeting of the British 
Ornithologists’ Club, October 21st, 1896. My son, Captain 
W. Wilfrid Cordeaux, writing from India, says—‘I know 
. viridanus well in Kashmir and the Punjab, and have 
watched it in the willows of Suru, besides the grey-white river 
tumbling ey roaring from the snow.’ 
Iynx penny lL. Wryneck. September 8th. One shot at 
Easing 
Lanius ee Sparrman. Woodchat Shrike. Sep. 8th. 
H. B. Hewetson, jun., saw a pair on a hedge top at 
Easington. He knows these birds very well, as he used to see 
them every day in Morocco. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus (L.) Red-necked Phalarope. 
September 20th. One shot by Stubbs the younger at North 
Cotes on his plover-pool. 
Phalaropus fulicarius L. Grey Phalarope. September 23rd. 
One shot at Tetney by Thomas Barker. Another at Easington 
on Sep. 26th. Another at Tetney by Stubbs on Oct. 12th, 
and several on coast further north. 
‘Corvus cornix L. Hooded Crow. September 26th. First 
seen at the Spurn. October 17th. Many with black Crows 
during day at Easington, flying south to north. 
A Grimsby fishing smack, the ‘Young George,’ was wrecked 
under Dimlington Cliff on October 14th. There was a Grey 
Crow on board, which the men said came to their vessel when 
on the Dogger Bank; although thrown up it refused to leave 
January 1897. 
