CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 13 
Cypselus apus. Swift. October roth. One seen at dusk near 
Easington. 
Corvus cornix. Hooded or Grey Crow. October 3rd. 
First arrivals on the Lincolnshire coast. The main body did 
not arrive till the 16th at early morning, when many were seen 
about Spurn and Kilnsea. These likewise followed the easterly 
gale and did not precede it. 
Vanellus vulgaris. Lapwing. September 24th. On Lincoln- 
shire coast several flights about this date, and on October 4th 
and 5th. Great numbers also from October 16th to 2oth, the 
fag-end of the ‘ great rush... On November 3rd, on the coast 
between Tetney and Grainthorpe Havens I noticed Lapwings 
in 
intervals, flying very low and passing inland; the movement 
ceased at 2 p.m. e wind on the previous night had been 
east and squally. This day, however, for sunshine and 
temperature was a midsummer one, and almost too warm to 
carry winter clothing. There were very few birds to be seen 
on the coast beyond the noisy Redshank and a few handsome 
Redwing in the bents. In the afternoon, however, as the tide 
came in, vast flights of Knot and Dunlin got on the wing and 
went careering southwards—now invisible, and then instantly 
passing into clouds of drifting snow-flakes. Through the morning 
I had marked along the outer rim of the horizon those long 
white lines suggestive of breakers, but these never changed 
their outlines, and with the aid of a glass became speedily 
resolved into thousands of gulls on distant sands. h 
Iked this coast for nigh forty years now, in all seasons 
and weathers—other old haunts have changed their character, 
but this changeth not—it is ever the same, ‘the level 
waste, the rounding grey’—a dreary interminable expanse 
mud, shifting sand, and water; a foreground of low sand- 
hills, barren or clothed with reed-like grasses and prickly sallow- 
thorn, ‘ fitties, broken by creeks and spread with irregular 
shallow pools of brackish water fringed by a dense growth of 
salt-loving plants. 
* Miles and miles and miles of desolation! 
Sign or token of some eldest nation 
Here would make the strange land not so strange. 
Time forgotten, yea since Time’s creation, 
m rders where the sea-birds range.’ 
Tringa alpina. Dunlin. Oct. 13th. One near Kilnsea with 
black breast. 
Jan. 1893. 
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