22 Cordeaux: Bird-notes from the Humber Dtstrict. 
Totanus ochropus (L). Green Sandpiper. There are always 
a number on the fitties in the months of July and August; 
these are immigrants. I have, however, no doubt it 
occasionally remains to nest. A pair, and later six birds, 
have frequented our trout stream in this and the adjoining 
parish all through the summer and up to this time, the first 
week of December, and one first week in January 1808. 
= daydrendacinn trochilus (L.). Willow-Wren. August 8th. 
és, This the first wet day since the end of ay. 
Great pate of Willow-Wrens were on the move, and 
again there was a very marked movement a month later, in 
the first week of September. Mr. Haigh noticed scores in 
the coast hedges and buckthorn on the 3rd, with innumerable 
other small immigrants, as Whitethroat, Yellow-Wagtail, 
one Redstart, Meadow-Pipits, Wheatears, Whinchat. Very 
a few Willow-Wrens on the 4th. 
Tringa subarquata Guidenstadt. Curlew-Sandpiper. On 
August 26th, when with the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union 
on the Frampton fitties of the Lincolnshire Wash, our mem- 
_ bers came upon six of these little waders in one of the old 
land creeks. They were young of the year, and excessively 
tame, and permitted a close inspection before they could be 
- induced to get on the wing. My first note of them at 
; aan . Spurn is on September 3rd; also Little Stint and Greenshank, 
Fe of the first two a considerable number. his year of 
: Jubilee, 1897, will always be memorable amongst ornitholo- 
gists from the fact that the first eggs of this species known 
to science were discovered and brought home by Mr. Popham 
_ from an island at the mouth of the Yenisei, in Arctic Asia. 
This is probably the very western fringe of its breeding 
range, the main migration being much further eastward. 
Although frequently so plentiful on the east coast of 
England in the autumn, the Curlew-Sandpiper is very 
seldom seen in the spring. In the former season, we 
have, so far, few data regarding its line of migration from 
Arctic Asia, whether this is round the North Cape and along 
the Norwegian island-fringe, or by the Gulf of Finland and 
the Baltic ; or, again, by a land flight across Northern Asia 
and Europe. It has always been such a rare visitor to 
Heligoland that the former route appears the most probable, 
_ shore of Scandinavia. 
the flights striking across the North Sea from the southern © 
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