THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES, 



Vol. XV.] OCTOBEE, 1891. [No. 178. 



RARE BRITISH BIRDS IN THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 

 By John Cobdeaux. 



Most of the species enumerated in the following list as having 

 occurred in this district during the last ten years have already 

 been recorded in print in ' The Ibis,' * The Zoologist,' * The 

 Naturalist,' < Migration Reports, 1879—88,' 'The Field,' and 

 other journals, and some few so far only in manuscript. These 

 are now collected and brought together for the first time, with the 

 dates of occurrences, locality, references to published records, 

 and, where possible, the name of the present owner, or the 

 museum or private collection where the specimen is deposited. 



White's Thrush, Turdus varius, Pallas.— One, now in a small 

 private collection of birds belonging to Mr. R. T. Burnham, of 

 Rimswell, near Withernsea, was shot in that neighbourhood in 

 November, 1881 (Zool. 1882, p. 174). A second was shot at 

 Waplington Manor, Pocklington, January, 1882 (Zool. 1882, 

 p. 74 ; ' The Field,' 1882, p. 201). This last was in the possession 

 of Mr. J. J. Leman, late M.P. for York, at the time of his death. 



Desert Wheatear, Saxicold deserti, Ruppell. — One, a 

 female, shot between Easington and Kilnsea on Oct. 17th, 1885 

 (Zool. 1885, p. 479 ; Nat. 1884-5, p. 387). Is now in the col- 

 lection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, of Keswick Hall, Norwich. 



Black Redstart, Huticilla titys (Scop.). — The occurrences 

 are numerous. It is a casual spring and autumn migrant ; in the 

 former season arriving, as a rule, earlier than the Common Red- 

 start, and in the autumn about four weeks after the passage of the 



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