16 CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
and stuck by the wreck. Mr. England, of the coastguard 
service, who lives at Easington, told me he found it dead on 
October 21st. All this time from the 14th it had pertinaciously 
stuck to the ship. 
Tringa minuta Leisler. Little Stint. Sep. 26th. A flock 
seen on the shore near Kilnsea. 
exces foment gs (L.). Goshawk. Sep. 27th. Mr. H. B. 
wetson, sen., writes—‘ To-day, as I stood in the gale in my 
man’s garden at Easington, I saw flying in the teeth of the 
wind, and at a very short distance, a pair of Hawks, which at 
first glance I thought Peregrines, but as they battled with the 
wind, flying very low, I saw they were Goshawks. There was 
no mistake about them, as they turned their lovely pale, soft, 
grey backs they looked like immense Cuckoos. Their tails. 
were very long. I observed that the birds in Easington and 
pigeons turned out to bully them; they got on very slowly, as 
the squall was at its height whi they passed.’ 
Pecais apivorus (L.). Honey-Buzzard. A beautiful adult 
male, which I saw in Mr. Jeffreys’ shop, at Grimsby, had the 
head ash-grey, and the brown of the back tinged with lovely 
purple reflections. It was shot about the middle of the month. 
Another was got from Ashby-cum-Fenby Wood, on Sept. 15th, 
and a second at Maltby Wood, near Louth, on or about the 
21st. Both these latter I saw at Mr. Kew’s, of Louth. 
Mr. Fieldsend, of Lincoln, has told me of a fourth, shot near 
Middle Rasen, on the 18th of September, and now in the 
County Museum. 
Turdus merula L. Blackbird. October 5th. Mr. Haigh 
reports a good many blackbirds in the coast hedgerows. On 
October 8th also, with southerly gale. Early on the morning . 
of December 5th I saw 25 to 30 cocks in the shrubs opposite 
my dining-room window. 
Turdus viscivorus L. Mistletoe Thrush. An immigration 
the same dates as the blackbird. 
Motacilla raii (Bonaparte). Yellow Wagtail. October 8th. 
Mr. Haigh saw one at North Cotes. 
Sylvia atricapilla (L.). Blackcap. October 11th. One in 
the garden at Grainsby Hall. 
Squatarola helvetica (L.). Grey Plover. October 12th. 
North gale. Very many on coast of Lincolnshire, the Humber 
flats, and the Spurn district. 
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