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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
OHN CORDEAUX, F.R F.R.G.S., 
Great Cotes House, R.S. O., Lincoln; Ex-President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, 
These notes are in continuation of those published in this journal for 
p. 13. 
apa albicilla (L.). Sea Eagle. A fine adult female, 
the fore parts light-coloured and tail white, was shot in the 
winter of 1896-7 at Thorpe, near Bridlington, It is now in 
Mr. Machen’s shop at the Quay. 
Circus cineraceus (Montagu). Montagu’s Harrier. I recently 
examined at Mr, Bailey's a handsome female of this species, 
shot.in the late autumn of 1896, by a fisherman, in very bad 
weather, on Flamborough Head. The outer web of the fifth 
primary was entire and not notched, and the inner and outer 
notches on the first and second primaries respectively one inch 
below the coverts. The last Yorkshire nest of this harrier was 
taken in 1871 near Bridlington, and formerly it nested in several 
localities in the county. 
Motacilla melanope Pallas. Grey Wagtail. A pair nested 
this season in the wall ivy close to my library window. The 
nest, of fine roots and dead grasses lined with white cow’s hair, 
was commenced in the second week in March; the female 
commenced to sit about April 25th, and the young left the nest 
on May 22nd. This is the first record of the Grey Wagtail 
nesting in Lincolnshire, if not in any of the eastern counties 
south of the Humber. 
Saxicola cenanthe Linneus. Wheatear. March 29th. Was 
first seen by Mr. Hamerton near Leeds. I found it very 
plentiful at Flamborough in the second week of May. 
Corvus cornix Linnzus. Grey Crow. April roth. bi _— 
pair in Cotes marshes. On the 12th I saw one ap aired 
with a black Carrion Crow, as they flew and kept together. On 
May sth a pair at Flamborough, and on the 8th a single bird. 
Again on June 12th, when I was out in a boat, one which had 
lost several primary quills flew across Filey Bay to the Speeton 
Cliffs. 
Tringa canutus Linnzus. Knot. April roth. Thousands to 
tens of thousands on the Huniber foreshores near Kilnsea. 
Squatarola helvetica (Linneus). Grey Plover. April roth. 
Many in same locality, more or less in summer plumage, 
Several along with Dunlin on’ May 3rd, in very complete 
= dress on the Humber foreshores at Great Cotes. 
