238 CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
Numenius arquata (Linnxus). Curlew. April roth. Great 
numbers on the Humber coast near the Spurn, lining the tide 
edge, or wading breast deep in the water. 
Gallinago ccelestis (Frenzel). Common Snipe. April 24th. 
A pair or two nest in some boggy land in this parish, which was 
not formerly the case. 
Cuculus canorus Linnzus. Cuckow. First seen April 25th; at 
Flamborough 28th (Bailey). 
Ruticilla pheenicurus (Linneus). Redstart. March 22nd. 
' First at Flamborough (Bailey). 
Turdus torquatus Linneus. Ring-Ouzel. I saw at Mr. Bailey's 
an adult male which had been killed against the lantern at the 
Flamborough Head lighthouse at 3 a.m. on April 2oth. Wind 
N.N.E. with rain. On June sth I was shown four fresh eggs 
of the Ring-Ouzel, also those of the Merlin and Golden Plover, 
from the moors above Forge Valley. 
Upupa epops Linneus. Hoopoe. April 30th. One seen on the 
Flamborough headland (Bailey). 
CEdicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmelin). Stone Curlew. May 
4th. One seen on migration at F lamborough (Bailey). 
Eudromias morinellus (Linnzus). Dotterel. May 6th. 
A ‘trip’ of fifty seen on their old ground on the high wold. 
The observer, Mr. David Atkinson, thinks they had only just 
arrived, as they seemed yery tired and indisposed to sé. 
I have heard of other ‘trips’ seen near the coast up to the 
middle of May. : 
Larus ridibundus Linnzus. Brown-headed Gull. Mr. Bailey 
has one, picked up dead on the shore at Flamborough in the 
spring, in which the head, neck, and throat are black, or very 
nearly so, and not dark brown, and where the black touches wt 
white of the lower neck it forms almost a dark ring. The wing 
formula is, however, identical with that of Z. ridibundus. 
Uria grylle (Linneus). Black Guillemot. Undoubtedly ee 
at Flamborough in 1896. I have seen two young birds shot ee 
the headland early in the autumn of last year, presumably b m= 
there, one of them near the lighthouse rocks, and the a, 
Speeton. The adult has been observed several times a 
present season in the neighbourhood, and is supposed t0 
breeding. A 
Pandion haliaetus (Linneus). Osprey. May 21st. t gt ee 
in a garden at Grimsby which had died that gag 
