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and Reed Bunting; several Robins and Thrushes; a few 
Mistletoe Thrushes. Shot two couples of Jack Snipe, and 
saw a few Common and Curlew Sandpipers. 
The most interesting items are the Pied Flycatchers on the 
16th and 17th. 
13th Sept. When on the Yorkshire coast to-day, with Mr. 
Hedley, of Haileybury College, we saw and _ identified 
Gannet, Arctic and Common Terns, Guillemot, Red-throated 
Diver, Cormorant, Grey Geese, Scoter, various Ducks, 
Gulls (of three or four species), many Skuas, Oyster- 
catchers, and Sanderlings. 
Numenius arquata (L.). Curlew. Common in September 
and October on pasture lands in the river marshes. They 
are called here ‘ Harvest’ Curlew, from coming at the time 
of corn cutting. 
Limosa lapponica (L.). Bar-tailed Godwit. 14th September. 
First observed on the foreshore. It has been a most 
abundant species during the autumn, and very numerous 
on the Yorkshire coast and the Spurn muds. There are 
no Curlew-Sandpiper or Little Stint recorded from the 
Spurn district. 
Lusciniola schwarzi (Radde). Radde’s Bush Warbler. At 
the meeting on 19th October of the British Ornithologists’ 
Club in London, Mr. Haigh exhibited an example of this 
East Siberian species, which, after much careful watching, 
he obtained on 1st October from a hedge at North Cotes, 
near the coast. Mr. Haigh was first attracted by the very 
peculiar and loud note of the bird, which he said was equal 
to that of one several times the size, and it is curious that 
the Russian Godlewski makes mention of the same fact. 
L. schwarst has hitherto not been recognised west of Tomsk — 
in Eastern Siberia, so that its occurrence in the Humber 
district is the more remarkable. The bird will shortly be 
figured and described in the ‘Ibis.’ 
Anser cinereus Meyer. Grey-lag Goose. toth October. A 
solitary Grey-lag shot by Mr. Haigh on the coast to-day ts 
the most handsome I have seen. The plumage is particularly 
clear and bright, specially so the lavender-grey rump an 
wing coverts. The under parts are much mottled with 
black. Bill like wax, the nail white, the rest pinky-yellow, 
legs and feet delicate flesh colour, irides brown, orbital-ring 
red. Grey Geese are more numerous this season than 
January 1899. : 
