that a young bird of jens rossi was shot and lost in| 
362 AGROTIS SAUCIA, ETC., AT HUDDERSFIELD. 
To-day, November 3rd, the flight was nearly over, but Rooks 
were still arriving in small straggling flocks, or odd birds; of 
Pewits I only saw two or three larger flocks.’ I saw immense 
flocks of Rooks here on the stubbles on the evening of 
November ist. 
Geese. Nov. 3rd. Mr. Haigh saw a flock of about 200 come in 
from the east of Grainthorpe. November 7th. At Great 
Cotes, about eighty in flock flying east at daybreak. 
A large Eagle has been repeatedly seen near the Coast- 
guard Station at Grainthorpe during the latter part of October 
and early in November ; it is probably a young Sea-Eagle. 
Linota linaria. Mealy Redpoll. November 6th. A few at 
Easington. One shot from a small flock. Some Woodcock 
same day. Wind N. 
n a subsequent letter, under date of November gth, Mr. Gatke — : 
says, ‘Ornithological news there is next to nothing to be told from 
here. The weather has been too bad, stormy winds from the west 
and north-west, with deluges of rain varied by showers of hail. But 
all this October through there have been almost daily some Wood- _ 
cocks and Blackbirds. These two have an inherent defiance of — 
wind and weather, for they turn up under so adverse aspects that 
ee nonady teen’ anything about the ways of birds would fancy 
a feather 
tring. For instance, on the first of this: month, ee 
7 vies it blew ae from the west and north-west, accompanied by 
rain, two hundred Woodcock and perhaps double that number oF 
Blackt irds were captured. Robins, Leaf-warblers, and “Accentors 
and the like, scarcely any ene the autumn. . . . Alauda 
alpestris scarcely any. . . . There remains scarcely < 
- rough to follow in a small boat; described | as 
 Kittiwake, but smaller, having a youd tail, a very. sma 
and reddish feet. It was. wounded and staggered away ¢ 
_ into 0 rough water. ‘The men in the the — are e all oomert acq qu 
