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BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT 
IN THE WINTER OF 1892-1893. 
(Continued from page 14.) 
JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 
Eaton Hall, Retyord. 
Anser segetum. Bean Goose. One was shot on Dec. 3rd 
by Stubbs, the wild-fowler, at North Cotes, from a party of four. 
This, which was a very fine example, was sent by Mr. Caton 
Haigh to Professor Newton. 
Scolopax rusticula. Woodcock. January 4th, 1893, a very 
considerable arrival on night of 3rd, or early morning of 4th, 
with a N.E. wind. This flight on the English coast extended, 
as far as my information goes, from Flamborough Head to the 
mouth of the Thames. Great numbers also occurred along the 
East coast of Scotland on the same date, January 3rd and 4th, 
Wind N.N.E. These Scotch birds may not have been all 
immigrants but also emigrants, representing a local movement 
from the interior to the coast, brought about by the arctic 
weather at the commencement of the year 
This arrival of Woodcock in January is interesting, as so far 
this has been an exceptionally poor woodcock season for the 
sportsman in Great Britain. The first flight has already been 
- recorded in ‘ The Naturalist,’ 1893, p. 10, on October 14th and 
15th, but no second, or November flight, was observed on the 
east coast. The January flight of cock, therefore, may be either 
the delayed ‘second flight’— unless this has passed over 
unobserved—or may have consisted of frozen-out birds from 
the Continent, which, but for an exceptionally severe season 
abroad, would not have visited us. 
In the winter of 1890-91 we had three distinct flights of 
Woodcock, namely in October, November, as is the rule, and 
a third flight on January 12th. It is singular that no Woodcock 
whatever have been observed at Heligoland this winter. 
Ampelis garrulus. Waxwing. Early in January, and subsequent 
to the flight of Woodcock, a sprinkling of Waxwings arrived, and 
they have now been recorded in all the eastern counties, from 
Northumberland to Kent, and also in Cambridgeshire. I have 
heard of at least ten Lincolnshire examples; one which I saw in 
Mr. Jeffrey’s shop at Grimsby was an adult full-plumaged male ; 
another was found dead by a boy, on the road-side, in the parish 
of North Thoresby, late in February. 
April 1893. 
