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Nov. Ist, '/whole atmosphere gloomy darkness, Curlew, Lapwing, 

 Tringa, Snipe, Woodcock, but no Golden Plover." Dec. 4th, 

 N.E. (No. 8 or 9), snow-storm. Woodcocks and Golden Plover. 



Squatarola helvetica, Grey Plover. — Spurn, June 7th, 11 a.m., 

 N.E., flocks along coast. Hasbro' l.v., Nov. 1st, four killed. 

 Tees L.V., Dec. 13th, large flock. 



Vanellus vulgaris. Lapwing. — Spring, Cockle l.v., March 8th, 

 large flocks to S.W. Autumn, Yarmouth, Oct. 6th, large flocks 

 in afternoon from sea ; 30th, Hasbro' l.v., great rush ; Whitby 

 L.H., Nov. 15th, 16th and 17th, flights each day, south-westerly 

 gale ; also at Hunstanton l.h. on 16th, to S.W., from daylight 

 to noon, 



Strepsilas interpres, Turnstone. — Yarmouth, Aug. 11th, young 

 birds to S. Farn l.h., 14th, large flocks at noon. Eedcar, 

 31st, large flock near Teesmouth, fresh arrivals. 



Hcematopus ostralegus, Oystercatcher. — Llyn Wells l.v., 

 Jan. 7th, 1884, one killed (J. H. G.). 



Phalaropus hyperboreuSy Ked-necked Phalarope. — Yarmouth, 

 Oct. 24th, one shot. 



Scolopax rusticula. Woodcock. — Flamborough l.h., April 6th, 

 struck and killed. Two or three occurred at Teesmouth (Eedcar), 

 last week in August, and a few in September. At Seaton Snook 

 and Flamborough on Sept. 21st. The ''first flight " was on the 

 Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk coasts, on the night of Oct. 

 21st, wind N.E. The "great flight," or rush, on the nights of 

 Oct. 28th and 29th, covering the whole of the E. coast, from the 

 Farn Islands to Yarmouth, the bulk coming probably into the 

 Humber district. A friend wrote me he had shot eighteen on 

 the morning of 29th, and might easily have doubled this number 

 if he had started early enough. From the 2nd to the 10th 

 of November stragglers continued to arrive between the Farn 

 Islands and Yarmouth. Heligoland, Sept. 22nd, first ; Oct. 

 22nd, one hundred caught or shot ; 28th, astounding passage of 

 Larks, Starlings, Peewits, Snipes and Woodcocks ; Oct. 30th, 

 twenty to thirty shot ; 31st, ten to twenty shot ; 31st to Nov. 1st, 

 thirteen caught, a few stragglers to December 4th.* 



* Mr. Clubley, of Kilnsea, near the Spurn, who during his life has 

 probably shot more Cock than anyone living on the east coast, says that a 

 S,E. wind always brings large grey or light-coloured Woodcocks, a N. wind 



