8 CORDEAUX *1RD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
Phylloscopus trochilus. Willow Wren. September 1st. 
Mr. Haigh reports a considerable movement on the Lincolnshire 
coast. The last local bird seen by me was on September 25th. 
On October 14th and 15th, with an easterly gale and continuous 
rain there was a large immigration on the Holderness coast, the 
hedges and gardens near Kilnsea swarmed with them. Those 
I observed were very distinctly brownish on the upper surface, 
and the eye-streak was not very clearly define 
Tadorna casarca. Ruddy Sheld-drake. September tst. 
One, a female, apparently in immature plumage, was shot from 
a pond on Humberstone ‘ fitties’ by a Cleethorpes gunner, and 
is recorded by Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh (Zool., 1892, p. 360) in 
whose collection it now is. 
Querquedula circia. Garganey. September roth. A young 
male was shot near Easington. This is the first autumn 
example I have ever had to record in the Humber district. 
Puffinus anglorum. Manx Shearwater. One was killed 
, against the telegraph-wire near Easington in September. 
Mr. Gatke, writing from Heligoland, says that on October 21st 
one was obtained there, the first occurrence since fifty years 
ago, when it was not unfrequent. 
Motacilla raii. Yellow Wagtail. September 13th. Mr. Haigh 
observed a great immigration of this species on the Lincolnshire 
coast, young and old, all day, continuously from east, in flocks 
of five to fifty. For a detailed account of the migration of 
M. rait, see Zool., 1892, pp. 389-91. 
Ruticilla pheenicurus. Redstart. September 21st. Mr. Haigh 
writes :—‘ We have had the heaviest rush of small insect-eating 
birds that I have ever seen. On the 2oth the wind shifted to 
N.E., and in the evening of that day it blew hard and rained 
in torrents all night. On the 21st I went down to the coast and 
found all the hedges swarming with Redstarts ; some had got 
as far inland as Grainsby village (about five miles from coast). 
Other small birds were Whitethroats, Robins, Pied and Spotted 
Flycatchers, Wheatears, Hedge Sparrows, and a few Blue Tits. 
When the hedges were beaten the little birds came out in 
clouds, the Redstarts more numerous than all the rest put 
together.’ ‘On the 22nd Redstarts had decreased and Robins 
increased.’ Between Easington and the Spurn on the 21st and 
the 22nd, a great many Redstarts. In connection with this 
immigration of Redstarts and Robins see Mr. J. H. Gurney’s 
‘Notes from Norfolk’ (Zool., 1892, p. 401). At Heligoland on 
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