CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. II 
was quite unprecedented in my experience. I did not see one 
on the 13th, but on the 14th and 15th they swarmed in every 
hedge in thousands, and were so tame that they could almost be 
taken by hand. Robins and Hedge Sparrows are also numerous.’ 
On the Norfolk coast on the 15th, Robins are reported ‘in 
hundreds,’ ‘Goldcrests in swarms.’ They are also named in 
Mr. M. Bailey’s Flamborough Bird-notes, Nat. 1892, p. 326, in 
swarms after the 13th. How much further to the north and 
also south this remarkable seein extended we have 
unfortunately no means of know 
Regulus ignicapillus. cae Wren. October 15th. 
When watching the Goldcrests passing inland from the coast 
to-day, I had the good fortune to see for some minutes a fine 
adult male Fire-crested Wren which came into the hedge under 
which I was sheltering, and perched on a twig close to my face, 
_having first made an attempt to alight on the stick of an open 
umbrella held horizontally across the shoulder. It was a finer 
example than one I got from Easington in 1889 (Nov. 4th). 
Amongst the many thousands of Goldcrests this was the only 
one I came across, although making much careful search. 
Lanius excubitor and L. major. Great Grey Shrike. October 
I5th. Mr. R. Hewetson and Mr. Craggs Clubley, of the Warren- 
house farm, when looking for woodcock saw twenty Grey Shrikes 
between Kilnsea and Spurn—five or six together, the rest singly. 
On the morning of the 16th I saw seven or eight between 
Easington and Kilnsea. One of these I beat from a black-thorn 
thicket where he was doing his best to circumvent a Goldcrest, 
the place swarming with them. Another was hovering kestrel- 
like over a stubble-field, and often changing position from place 
to place, others on the wing or perched on the highest twigs in 
hedge-rows, one on the telegraph wire. In the warren-house 
garden a handsome adult male, with one wing spot, strove hard 
to catch a Robin, both chaser and chased threading their way 
through several clumps of broom and gorse; finally the Robin 
got into an elder bush, and the Shrike just above him ready to 
seize ; luckily for the intended victim, he managed to drop into 
a hole in some loose rockwork. The Shrike watched the spot, 
his head on one side, most intently, like a cat; but after a time 
gave it up, perching on the handle of a spade, from which point 
of vantage he speedily pounced on a Goldcrest, seizing it by 
the nape, and the last I saw of him was trying to fasten it on 
the spikes of a wire fence. The mob of small birds in this 
____ garden, and the Goldcrests in the black-thorn, did not show any 
Jan, 1893. an. 1893. 
