CORDEAUX : BIRD-NOTES FROM THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 9 



N.W. Many snow-buntings and a few Shore-larks (Otocorys 

 alpestris) on coast at Easington and Kilnsea. 



Scolopax rusticula L. Woodcock. Oct 9th. A few at 



Flamborough. Oct. 26th. Easington, Kilnsea, and Spurn 

 a few, and odd birds here and there during the month. 

 Nov. 1 st. Great flight both on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 

 coast — 22 shot in the Spurn district and many more seen. 



Lanius excubitor L. Great Grey Shrike. Very few records 



of this regular autumn immigrant. On Oct. 18th, Mr. Haigh 

 saw one perched on the telephone-wire at North Cotes. 

 Oct. 19th. One (one wing-bar) shot on sea bank at Tetney. 

 Another, which I saw in the flesh, also with one wing-bar, shot 

 near the lighthouse at Flamborough on Oct. 23rd. And one, 

 set up by Mr. Bailey's assistant, shot at Flamborough about 

 three weeks before this occurrence. 



Turdus pilaris L. Fieldfare. Remarkably scarce during the 



autumn. On October 26th, wind N.E. and N., a few coming 

 in from sea at Easington. Mr. Haigh told me, wTiting from 

 his place near the sea in Merionethshire, that on Nov. 18th, 

 Fieldfares were passing south all day in large flocks, and on the 

 19th also in smaller flocks. 



Saxicola cenanthe L. Wheatear. Oct. 27 th. One on Kilnsea 



Warren. 



Hirundo rustica L. Swallow. Oct. 27th. Last Swallow seen 



by me when driving through Skeffling. Nov. 9th, two seen by 

 Mr. Hewetson at Easington. 



Acanthis linaria (L.). Mealy Redpole. Nov. 2nd. Mr. Haigh 



got a Mealy Redpole near the coast. It is surprising how very 



rare this species is on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber 

 compared with the number often found in the Spurn district. 



Podicipes griseigena (Boddaert). Red-necked Grebe. 



Nov. 8th. An adult male was taken alive in a stackyard at 

 Sktrffling, and subsequently was brought to Mr. P. Loten, of 

 Easington, for preservation. Another, an adult male, was shot 

 at Swine, near Hull, on the same date. 



Passer domesticus (L.). House Sparrow. Nov. 2nd— 6th. 



Thousands on coast. The migration of the Sparrow to the east 

 coast of England from the Continent is a perfectly ascertained 

 fact. 



Buteo lagopus (J. F. Gmelin). Rough legged Buzzard. 



Oct. 25th. One on the coast, and on Nov. 9th another was 



Jan. 1896, 



