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CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 7 
Saxicola cenanthe. Wheatear. August 14th to end of 
September; great numbers on passage oe N. to S. along 
coast at intervals. On Sept. 18th, Mr. H. B. Hewetson, of 
Leeds, in company with his two sons, qo rved a russet- 
coloured Wheatear with the sides’ of the head ath throat black, 
near the chalk embankment at the Spurn; he wrote, ‘I was 
quite close to it for some time as we walked along, it flew on 
with a party of Wheatears.’ It may have been an adult male of 
Saxtcola stapazina or perhaps 5S. deserti; but presuming that 
Mr. Hewetson’s sketch of the head of this bird, which he sent 
me shortly after seeing it, is absolutely correct as to the 
extension of the black to the lower throat, it is suggestive rather 
of S. melanoleuca (Giild.), the eastern form of the Black-throated 
Chat. On Oct. 16th, I saw a few Wheatears which had come 
in with the ‘great rush’ on 14th and r5th, perched on rails 
and See fine brown birds—near Kilnsea and 
Easington shore 
Totanus ee Wood Sandpiper. Sept. 1st. Mr. Haigh 
reports a bird of the year, shot from a pond in Grainsby Park. 
Limosa lapponica. Bar-tailed Godwit. Aug. 22nd. A flock 
was seen by Mr. Haigh on the coast—very considerable numbers 
on the mud within the Spurn in September. Have been very 
common in the Humber during the autumn. 
Tringa minuta. Little Stint. Aug. 19th. A pair seen on the 
Lincolnshire coast, and after this very numerous both there and 
at the Spurn, and in the latter locality in flocks of various sizes 
up to forty together, to the middle of September. On the 16th 
Mr. Haigh shot one near Saltfleet Haven, and saw another. 
Tringa subarquata. Curlew Sandpiper. From the middle 
of August to the middle of September very common on both 
sides of the Humber. At Spurn several were shot having the 
underparts more or less a faded red or mottled with dull red, 
all the most richly-coloured obtained being, as Mr Hewetson 
informs me, old females. Those obtained on the Lincolnshire 
coast had buff breasts. Last observed on Lincolnshire coast by 
Mr. Haigh on October sth. 
Anthus pratensis. Meadow Pipit. August 24th. Great 
numbers on passage. Swarming on Lincolnshire coast. 
Mareca penelope. Wigeon. August 26th. First Wigeon on 
coast. October gth. Six young of year on sea-ponds at 
Easington—four shot. 
Jan. 1893. 
