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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT 
IN THE WINTER OF 1894-5. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U. 
Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Zena 
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Otocorys alpestris (L.). Shore-lark. Since the middle of 
December, but particularly from the commencement of the 
great frost in January, Shore-larks were very plentiful in the 
Spurn district. Thousands, I am told, were seen. So numerous 
were they, in fact, that Mr. Hewetson thinks they must at one 
time have out-numbered the Snow-buntings. A large flight went 
south along the coast on March 8th from which a specimen, 
which I saw in the flesh, was got. 
Turdus pilaris L. Fieldfare. December 18th.  S. strong, 
slight snow, the first in the season. Many Fieldfares passed over 
this parish (Great Cotes) from east to west. Mr. Hewetson 
has a — variety, an adult mottled with white as if sprinkled 
with s 
Columba acute! L. Wood Pigeon. December 22nd. 
Very heavy gale from S.W. to W. and N.W. From 9 a.m. to 
about noon immense flights of Wood Pigeons were observed 
passing inland from east to west across the Stallingborough 
marshes. Flocks of thousands, and continuously. Mr. Haigh 
says that on January 27th larger flights of pigeons crossed 
Tetney psc going inland. 
Mr. wetson writes that on December z2nd an immense 
the sea, the two lines of flight crossing at right angles. A single 
Raven (Corvus corax) accompanied the sea flight. 
Mergulus alle L. Little Auk. Following upon the gale of 
December 22nd there came on December 28th and 29th strong 
_ winds from N.W. to N. with snow and rain ; after this, early in 
the year, a few Little Auks were recorded in Yorkshire and 
Lincolnshire, driven inland, picked up on the coast, or seen 
exhausted battling in the surf. Again on January 13th a strong 
easterly gale with driving snow. This was the worst and most 
dangerous of the on-shore gales I can remember from the east. 
Fishermen say it was terrible at sea, and they scarcely hoped to 
weather it. Subsequently it was known that the loss of life and 
April 1895. 
