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a week previously it had come-on board a steam trawler on the 
run home from Iceland. This is the second in a few months 
captured in this manner on board trawlers. I have, however, 
misplaced my note of the previous occurrence. I believe, in 
both cases, they alighted on the mast, and were captured by 
hand after dark. 
Locustella luscinioides (Savi). Savi’s Warbler. On May 
24th, when driving in the marsh, I saw a small Warbler, 
presumably of this species, fly upwards from a bush on the side 
ofa reedy drain. It rose like a Whitethroat, or soaring Pipit, 
with wings elevated, and descended laterally, still keeping the 
wings raised—in fact, exactly as a Whitethroat does. In colour 
a bright reddish-brown, lighter underneath ; tail much rounded, 
and kept expanded in flight. I thought I distinguished a trilling 
note on descending. It came down into the bush, and com- 
menced to skulk, and I did not see it again. I have seen in 
eptember a very similar-looking Warbler in the marsh in heavy 
_ Crops of wheat, clinging to the top of some prominent stalk, 
which, on the least alarm, dropped at once into the dense cover, 
and one I shot at, and probably only wounded, did not succeed: 
in picking up. 
Turdus viscivorus Linneus. Mistletoe Thrush. May 26th. 
The first brood have flown, and the old birds have commenced 
a second nest, the foundation of which is in great part composed 
of scraps of some white gauze-like material. The second brood 
left the nest on June 3oth. 
Numenius phzopus (Linnzus). Whimbrel. ‘The ‘May birds’ 
have been plentiful. I last heard them when on Filey Brigg, on 
June 8th, passing to the north. Wind N., hazy and thick, very 
cold. 
Larus argentatus J. F. Gmelin. Herring Gull. Very few 
appear now to nest on the cliffs immediately to the north of 
Filey Brigg. The cliff-climbers at Bempton complain much of 
the injury they do the trade—in fact, much more than do the 
Jackdaws—by carrying off the eggs of the Guillemot from the 
ledges. This they do in their feet, and often enough drop the 
€gg in the sea, when it at once sinks. This probably accounts 
for the number of fresh and unbroken eggs washed up by the 
tide, and which are picked up on the sands of Filey. I lately 
Saw a Herring Gull with a much darker mantle than the ordinary 
___ Shade, but was not able to see the colour of the legs and feet. 
Aug. 1897, 
