CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. ns 
Regulus cristatus K. L. Koch. Gold-crested Wren. Sep- 
mber roth. First seen at the Spurn. Tetney, October rst, 
fe subsequently on the coast of Holderness during the first 
week in the month, and in very large numbers. 
kere Soper (L.). Red-necked Phalarope. 
Sept. mmature male shot at Kilnsea, Holderness, 
by G. E. oie 
Alcedo ispida L. |Kingfisher. September roth, in Great 
otes marshes. ore in the East Lincolnshire marsh 
district in Septem 
ee Bahn, Har dip Peregrine Falcon. September 
This morning, soon after dawn, when at the Humber 
ie at Easington, with Mr. H. B. Hewetson, we saw three 
Peregrine Falcons over the foreshore; two of these passed us 
almost within range of a gunshot, and the larger of the two 
I observed appeared to be very rufous underneath. This was 
indeed a sight not often vouchsafed to a naturalist to see these 
grand birds beating down the coast, sometimes sailing in circles 
and then gliding forward. There is an appearance in the flight 
of the Peregrine Falcon which is always suggestive of immense 
strength and power of wing. Not less interesting was it to mark 
the panic amongst the Lapwings and shore-birds, the latter rising 
to an immense height to escape the deadly downward swoop of 
their enemy. Scores of noisy Curlews flew along the tide edge, 
and many hundreds of Peewits kept drifting irregularly away from 
the land to seek the security of the Lincolnshire coast. I again 
saw a Peregrine Falcon on October 25th, near Bridlington. 
Corvus cornix L. Hooded Crow. October 1st and 2nd. 
Arrived on the Lincolnshire coast in very Jarge numbers. 
Wind N.E. 
Alauda arvensis L. Skylark. October 1st to 23rd. Enormous 
numbers came in, the fields on the Lincolnshire coast, and at 
Easington and Flamborough, swarmed with them. 
Corvus frugilegus L. Rook. Immense numbers came in during 
October at intervals. Mr. Haigh writes that on October 12th, 
‘there was a large migration of Rooks, Grey Crows, Starlings, 
and Larks, the last coming in from two directions, crossing each 
other at right angles, one lot going south, and the other west.’ 
He further remarks ‘I never saw birds of the same species 
crossing each other before.’ 
Gallinago celestis (Frenzel) and G, gallinula (L.). Common 
___ Snipe and Jack Snipe. October 1st. Both the Common and 
Jan. 1895, ° 
