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Pochards and a male Shoveller. With regard to the only one of 

 the former species taken, pinioned, and put upon our park-pond, 

 it is perhaps worthy of mention that she was soon joined there by 

 a wild male of her kind, who still remains (Jan. 16th, 1895) in 

 her close vicinity. 



I append reports of first appearances of spring and summer 

 migrants in our county. In instances where no special locality 

 is mentioned, Lilford is to be understood :— March 9th, Chiff- 

 chaff, Warmington ; 14th, Woodcocks, Thornhaugh (H. H. S.) ; 

 19th, Cuckoo, Thornhaugh (H. H. S.) ; 22nd, Wheatear. April 

 3rd, Swallow, Barton Segrave ; 4th, Sand Martin, Lowick ; 5th, 

 Wryneck, Blackcap, Barton Segrave ; 7th, Willow Wren, Red- 

 start ; 9th, Tree Pipit, Grasshopper Warbler, Thornhaugh 

 (H.H. S); Nightingale; 12th, Sedge Warbler, Whinchat; 13th, 

 Ray's Wagtail; 16th, House Martin; 18th, Whitethroat, Red- 

 shank; 21st, Garden Warbler; 28th, Lesser Whitethroat; 29th, 

 Corncrake. May 1st, Reed Warbler; 5th, Swift, Hobby; 8th, 

 Turtle Dove; 10th, Spotted Flycatcher; 11th, Common Sand- 

 piper; 13th, Wood Warbler. 



RARE BRITISH BIRDS IN THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 

 By John Cokdeaux. 



In ' The Zoologist' for 1891, pp. 361-367, I have given a list 

 of some of the rarer birds which have occurred in the Humber 

 District during the ten years preceding that date ; since this 

 there have been several occurrences of rare wanderers, the records 

 of which are now collected and brought together for the first time. 



Ring Ouzel, Turdus torquata (L.), var. alpestris (C. L. 

 Brehm). — On February 25th, 1893, Mr. Hewetson, of Leeds, 

 and I saw two apparently adult males near the coastguard- 

 station of Kilnsea ; these, both on the ground and when in flight, 

 showed much more white on the wings and flank than the ordinary 

 and common type which occurs on the east coast of Yorkshire so 

 regularly on migration in the autumn (' The Naturalist,' 1893, 

 p. 105). Subsequently one was obtained in the same neighbour- 

 hood, which I saw ; this was unquestionably referable to the 



