MIGRATORY BIRDS IN THE TRENT VALLEY. 261 
Stonechat. Lark. - 
Whitethroat. Cuckoo. uniin. 
Sedgewarbler. Kestrel. Aum 
Linnet. Wild Duck (Azas doschas). 
Notes on the above :— 
Numbers frequent the sand-hills for the aoe which 
supply a source of food both in the summer and winte 
Wheatear. Several seen, and two broods along with the old birds, 
the one north and the other immediately south of Saltfleet 
Hav 
Sieaéchat Several pairs, also young, but chiefly confined to the 
land side of sand-hills—both this and the Whinchat frequent 
the sands, searching for small flies in the ridge of seaweed 
brought in with the tid 
An extremely pale sand coloured variety seen in one of the 
warrens. 
Stockdove. Several pairs, and nesting in the rabbit-burrows or the 
warrens. 
Ringed Plover. Both the greater and the smaller race were seen, 
the former evidently nesting on the coast. 
Sanderling. Two seen in company with one of the smaller race of 
Dunlin, in summer plumage, and one of the small Ringed Plover. 
June 12th isa late date for the Sanderling, a species which ought 
at this time to be at its nesting quarters within the Arctic Circle. 
I drove close past these little birds and observed that the neck 
and upper breast were closely spotted with brown, as in summer, © 
but the upper parts were mainly ash-grey, as in wint 
Redshank. About five pair near Saltfleet, aaa they were 
evidently nesting. 
With regard to the other branches of natural history only = 
_ Notes were made. A small Pike was obtained in one of the drains, 
also two species of Newts: the Frog, the Common Toad, the 
. (releas Toad, and one of the false scorpions, Chelifer degeertt. 
~The Polecat : appears to be common in the district. —W. F. BAKER. 
NOTE—ORNI THOLOGY. 
- Migratory Birds in rent Valley.— Widachdey, h A as 
a hot day wih a strong goo be bas the east and ‘north-east. At nine o'clock in 
_ the evening the wind dropped and lightning commenced. a few hours later 
_ a thunderstorm was raging, which lasted with shat intervals till 8am. Several 
_ umes during the night and notably at about 3 a.m. I heard large flocks of waders 
