ize) CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
thing at all like it—shore and cliffs and stubbles alive, in flocks 
like Dunlin or Knot.’ Nov. 29th, Lincolnshire coast, immense 
immigration, inland to S.S.W., continuously to 3.30 p.m. 
Anser brachyrhynchus. Pink- footed Goose. Flocks arrived 
on the coast in the fourth week of September. 
Scolopax rusticula. Woodcock. Sept. 24th. A few early 
birds in the Spurn district. Oct. 13th to 16th. First flight, 
night of 14th or on early morning of 15th—of fourteen shot on 
this day, all of which I examined, seven were presumably young, 
having the outer web of the first primary brownish and with 
regular notch-like markings through its length, four had the 
outer web greyish-white and the notches obliterated ; of the 
remaining three the markings were of an intermediate character, 
perhaps birds of the previous year. Presuming that the clear- 
ness or otherwise of the notches is indicative of youth or age, 
it would seem that both the old and young migrate at the same 
date and in the same flight. 
Asio accipitrinus. Short-eared Owl. Oct. 14th to 16th. 
A came at the same date as the Woodcock. I have an 
example shot this year at Spurn on August 6th—a very early date. 
Falco zsalon. Merlin. Several seen about Kilnsea first fort- 
night in October. 
Asio otus. Long-eared Owl. Oct. 15th. One shot on the 
Phylloscopus superciliosus. Yellow-browed Warbler. 
r. Haigh has recorded in ‘The Zoologist,’ 1892, 
; ce aving shot one from a hedge near the sea-bank at 
North oe In his letter to me announcing the capture, he 
says, ‘It is the fattest little bird I ever skinned.’ 
Regulus cristatus. Gold-crested Wren. Oct. 14th to 16th. 
Easterly gale, heavy rain, and very thick at sea. An enormous 
immigration of Goldcrests into the Spurn district, much the 
largest I have seen or recorded. One on 13th, wind N.; great 
numbers on 14th, E. gale; but on the 15th they seemed to have 
increased tenfold, swarming in every part of the district wherever 
any shelter or cover could be found—hedges and gardens were 
full—and the tiny birds so tame that they might have readily 
been taken with a butterfly net. Many were killed by country 
boys, and the village cats had a grand time of it, so also had the 
Grey Shrikes. The sallow-thorns covering the sand-hills between 
Kilnsea and the Point were densely crowded, each little migrant 
an animated olive leaf with a lady-bird on the stalk. On the 
Lincolnshire coast, Mr. Haigh says, ‘The rush of Goldcrests 
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