174 Cordeaux: Bird-Notes from the Humber District. 
Anas boscas L. Wild Duck. 1st April. I saw twelve pair 
to-day, male and female together, dabbling in the tide edge 
of the Humber. | 3 
Rallus aquaticus L. Water Rail. 4th April. One struck 
Flamborough light soon after midnight and was ee 
On the same night, and about the same hour, two 
crested Wrens. A remarkably fine Woodcock also ‘killed 
against one of the wires near Filey Station on night of 4th. 
Saxicola cenanthe (L.). Wheatear. fst to 4th agai’ : 
First arrivals on Yorkshire coast. very considerable 
immigration at the Spurn, Flamborough, Filey Brigg, and | 
Scarborough Castle Hill; at the two latter observed by 
W. J. Clarke we 
On 3rd May, at Great Cotes, I saw two pair, males and 
females, of the handsome large tree-perching race, which 
each year in May pass northward through this district, 
presumably en route for Iceland and Greenland. 
beige cristatus K. L. Koch. Golden-crested Wren. In 
e last week of March and early in April quite.a number 
ok in the coast districts on their spring migration. On 
1st April I saw one caught in the main street of Grimsby. _ 
On 21st April there was a swarm of Golden-crested W rens | 
at Flamborough, filling the hedges, and on the 18th asi ee 
subsequently many also at Easington, in the Spurn district, 
some being picked up dead, suggestive of an unfavourable. 
passage of the North Sea. The wind N.E., and hazy during — 
the period. This is the first time I have had to record an- ; 
immigration of these little wanderers in the spring. yas 
Uria troile (L.). Guillemot. Mr. Bailey told me (4th April 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus Pallas. Sand- aber A pa ee 
er 
who were well acquainted with the birds in 1888. 
present occasion their chief haunt was a sandy field on 
the same farm where they were first seen in 1888, and 
