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I20 CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
Fringilla montifringilla L. Brambling. Very numerous 
during the winter, frequenting fields along the coast, and with 
the severe weather resorting in great numbers, with other birds, 
to farm and stack yards. Mr. Haigh, writing from Grainsby 
Hall, January 12th, 1895, says: ‘We have been feeding the 
birds all through the “blast,” they eat almost a sack of oats 
a day; Bramblings most numerous, and two to three hundred 
are often seen on the feeding-place at a time. On the gth of 
January he received some kiiled in a farmyard: by a boy shooting 
at sparrows, and amongst these were two which had the 
yellowish-buff of the throat replaced by black like the head. 
Acanthis linaria (L.). Mealy Redpoll. A few have been seen, 
and examples obtained, in the Spurn district during the winter. 
Plectrophenax nivalis (L.). Snow-Bunting. Very numerous 
in Holderness and in Lincolnshire in January. Some obtained 
near Easington, Mr. Hewetson thinks, are a distinctly smaller 
and more lightly-coloured race, and Mr. Hewetson’s example, 
shot this winter, quite bears this out, as it is certainly the 
smallest Snow-Bunting I have seen, and is very mealy looking. 
The wings extend quite to the end of the tail. 
Charadrius pluvialis L. Golden Plover. January 4th. 
A very great movement was observed by Mr. Hewetson in the 
Spurn district at the beginning of the frost, on this day flights of 
thousands suddenly appeared, the flocks, half-a-mile in length, 
passing south, and immense numbers were also scattered about 
the country; up to this date they had been very scarce; 
Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), however, in enormous numbers 
during November and December. 
Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon. Pink-footed Goose. Three, 
which I examined in the flesh, all most beautiful, clean and 
bright specimens, were killed at the same shot from a flock of 
fifteen by Mr. Haigh. On the 2oth I saw a remarkably fine 
Bean Goose (Amser segetum) which had been killed in the 
marsh district below Louth, and was subsequently told it was 
very tender eating, which put me in mind of what the old wild- 
fowl shooter used to affirm, if you want a tender goose do not 
shoot at the leading birds, but take those in the rear of the flock. 
Mergus merganser L. Goosander. Feb. 6th. Mr. Haigh 
saw a beautiful male near Grainthorpe Haven. 
Totanus ochropus (L.). Green Sandpiper. February 7th. 
One was shot by Mr. Haigh which did not appear in any degree 
to have suffered by the severity of the season. 
: Naturalist, 
