360 CORDEAUX: BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 
This grand old shelter fence is conspicuous at a great distance, 
and is the first cover that small birds make for when coming to 
land across the North Cotes ‘fitties’ from the sea. Both the Blue 
Tit and Great Tit have been very common in our coast districts, 
also a few Coal Tits. 
At Kilnsea, on the Yorkshire side, a few ‘ Pilots’ (egudus 
cristatus) were seen on the 28th, and the first Woodcock (Sco/opax 
rusticula) at the Spurn. On the 27th Mr. Haigh noticed great 
flights of Greenfinches (Zigurinus chloris) on the stubbles at 
Tetney, and on the 29th the country about Easington and Kilnsea 
swarmed with them. Mr. Hewetson writes :—‘I never saw such a 
migration of Green Linnets in my life, there were thousands in 
the lanes and in our garden, and during the time I was 
watching them there was an enormous immigration overhead, 
from the sea—countless clouds—one cloud at a great elevation ; 
mere specks—and a lower stratum, quite distinct from the 
others, coming in at the same time, flying S.W. I have only 
seen locusts come in such quantities. I believe to a bird they 
were all Green Linnets.’ On October 14th, when shooting at 
Easington, I found the fields still swarming with Greenfinches. 
Passer domesticus and P, montanus. House and Tree © 
Sparrows. October 9th. Mr. Haigh noticed large numbers 
of both on coast, the former much the most numerous. ~ 
Corvus poadaors and C. frugilegus. Carrion Crow and Rook. 
- October 9th. Mr. Haigh writes :—‘These have been ‘comming, : 
in for some days, but no Grey Crows yet.’ I have recently 
an opportunity of — examining a on series of bird skins : 
collected during many years by Mr. Haigh from the Lincoln- 
shire coast, and I think there is yet much interesting work to be 
done in determining the races or varieties of some of on 
_ common birds in respect to their migratory movements and 
geographical distribution. Thus, for instance, we certainly hav 
two Starlings, our common Engli ish bird and that purple-headed 
_ eastern race which comes in October and leaves again it the” 
late spring. Then there are two Rock Pipits, the British at 
the Scandinavian forms. So also at least two races of Snow. 
_ Buntings, a larger and a smaller, and apparently a light and 
a dark variety, a colouration which is distinguishable alike 17 : 
old and young. — Larks. also vary much in size, and those which — 
. arrive on the east coast in satan: are uniformly darker on the 
