32 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Spurn, on June 13th, 4 p.m., N.E., clear, Grey Plovers were seen 

 passing S. to N. In the autumn, in the first week in August, 

 three old birds in breeding plumage on Humber muds ; also 

 several old black-breasted birds seen at Spurn on 24tli. The 

 young of the year arrived in large numbers last of August and 

 first week of September. Seven shot near Spurn, on Sept. 12th, 

 were two males and four females, and one lost ; all were in fine 

 summer plumage ; were very numerous on Humber flats during 

 September and October ; with the above exceptions, birds of the 

 year or old having completed the autumn moult. 



Kentish Plover, JEgialitis cantiana (Lath.). — One, an im- 

 mature example, was shot on the shore at Friskney, near 

 Boston, on Oct. 8th ; subsequently came into the hands of Mr. 

 A. S. Hutchinson, of Derby. 



Ringed Plover, JEgialitis hiaticula (Linn.). — May 27th, a 

 flock numbering about twenty of the small race, ^gialitis inter- 

 medins (Menetries), on Humber muds. 



Dotterel, Eudromias morinellus (Linn.). — May 14th to 21st, 

 some *' trips " in N.E. Lincolnshire marshes, also at localities in 

 Holderness ; twenty seen in one flock, thirty in another. 



Lapwing, Vanellus vulgaris, Bechst. — At the north-eastern 

 stations, noticeably at Inner Fame l.h., Hunstanton l.h.. Inner 

 Dowsing L.V., and Lynn Wells l.v., where very large numbers 

 passed from Oct. 6th to Nov. 12th, general direction S.E. to 

 N.W. At Teesmouth (Piedcar), Nov. 4th, an immense immi- 

 gration between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., passing westward, flocks 

 numbering from 50 up to 500 birds, a flock coming in from sea- 

 ward every ten minutes or thereabouts ; S.W., light, fine, and 

 mild. 



Turnstone, Strepsilas intcrpres (Linn.). — May 25tli, many 

 both mature and immature on coasts of N.E. Lincolnshire and 

 Holderness. Teesmouth, in the autumn, not so plentiful as 

 usual ; common in other localities. 



Oystercatcher, Hcematoims ostralegiis, Linn. — At Teesmouth 

 (Piedcar), Aug. 18th, 6 a.m., three or four hundred, N.N.E., 

 light, dull and showery. Hunstanton l.h., flocks S.W. at ebb, 

 and E. at flood, throughout August. 



Eed-necked Phalarope, Pludaropus hyperhorens (Linn.). — One 

 near Grimsby, Sei)t. 26th ; one Spurn and one Withernsea, Oct. 

 9th ; two on Suffolk coast, same month {' Field,' Oct. 29th, 1881). 



