CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOYTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 5 
wonderful and abiding relic of antiquity to be found anywhere 
in all England. Once it formed part of the scientific frontier 
of an empire and was held by a great army; but now, eighteen 
centuries later, the trumpets of the cohorts are silenced and 
you listen to the whinnying of the heather-bleats (Snipe) 
and the wheepling of the noisy whaups (Curlew). 
Ruticilla phceenicurus (L.). Redstart. September 17th. 
I saw several on the coast near the Spurn and about the 
gardens Toke Mr. Haigh saw one at North Cotes on 
October 
Turdus Wbciia’ L. Blackbird. September 28th to November 
1st. Have come in almost continuously between these dates 
day by day. Mr. Haigh thinks the immigration of this species 
has decidedly been the chief feature of the season. 
Erithacus rubecula (L.). Robin. October 6th. Mr. Haigh 
writes there was a small rush of birds on the coast to-day, many 
Robins, Blackbirds, Mistletoe Thrushes, and Hedge Sparrows, 
and again on the 8th great number of Robins and Hedge 
Sparrows were also observed near Easington in Holderness. 
Mr. Gatke says all birds have been very scarce at Heligoland 
this autumn, only the little Robin continued almost daily to 
pass through, more or less numerously, from the latter part of 
September to the end of November. 
Turdus iliacus L. Redwing. October 6th. © First flocks and 
many again early in November. 
Anthus obscurus (Latham). Rock Pipit. October 8th. First 
observed by Mr. Haigh on the coast. 
Acanthis flavirostris (L.). Twite. October 2oth. First 
appeared in flocks on the coast. 
Scolopax rusticula L. Woodcock. October 2oth and aist. 
Wind N. and N.E. to E.; full moon. First flight of Woodcock 
on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast. | They had been 
dropping in sparingly during the week. Are reported on the 
2oth and 21st as plentiful at Flamborough, near Withernsea, and 
at Easington and the Spurn. Fifteen couples were shot at the 
latter place on the morning of the zoth by four guns. It was 
thought that the new light at Withernsea had attracted them 
Redwings, Bramblings at the same date, and great plenty of 
Blackbirds. 
Ruticilla titys (Scopoli). Black Redstart. October 23rd. 
A fine adult male seen on a hedge close to Flamborough village. 
Jan. 1895, 
