CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. I2I 
CE&dicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmelin). Stone Curlew. 
January 30th. One was shot on the coast near Marsh Chapel. 
This is now in Mr. Haigh’s collection at Grainsby Hall. ‘This 
winter occurrence is well worthy of note, so far north in these 
islands, of a spring migrant. One is also recorded (Zool. 1895, 
p. 68) on January 7th in Sussex in this year. 
Ampelis garrulus L. Waxwing. Mr. Jones, of Filey, 
received one shot at Hunmanby on January 18th. A very fine 
male bird was picked up dead at Flamborough on January roth. 
It has also occurred sporadically in other parts of England. 
(See The Zoologist, 1895, pp. 69 and 70.) 
Larine. Gulls. Glaucous Gulls (Zarus g/aucus) have been 
numerous on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast. Some 
adults which have been got are the finest I have ever seen. 
The Iceland Gull (Zarus deucopterus) is much the scarcest of 
the two, and comparatively few have been noticed. ‘Two Little 
Gulls (Larus minutus) were shot on the Yorkshire coast, and 
another, a young bird, which I saw, was got on the shore at 
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Mr. Machen, of Bridlington Quay, 
the same case. In another instance an Auk shot from Filey 
Brigg, before it could be recovered from the sea, was pounced 
upon and swallowed entire by a Glaucous Gull. These great 
predacious Gulls were, however, not the only foes of the Little 
A Mr. Bailey says a Flamborough fisherman, George 
Emerson, a great observer of birds, when fishing with the long 
‘lines in January, saw a ‘great aE Hawk’ strike an Iceland 
Auk from a flock and carry it o 
Crenus musicus Bechstein. ee rt Swan. Some flocks 
n the Humber from early in January. They appear to have 
aa seat greatly from the arctic weather, which is curious in 
a species capable of changing its season in a night. A Whooper 
in an exhausted condition was taken alive at Tunstall, in 
Holderness, another, in grey plumage, caught at Easington, has 
been transferred to the Park at Leeds. This bird improved 
immensely in condition after its capture. Three were washed 
up dead on the beach between Withernsea and the Spurn. 
One, I saw in Mr. Kew’s shop at Louth, is in grey plumage, 
but almost merging into pure white. Mr. Haigh says a flock of 
fourteen were seen near Tetney in February, and on the aist 
. April 1895. 
