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Oct. 13th, 1 p.m., fog, a Wren and Redbreast seen. At Cromer, 

 May 23rd, 1 a.m., a great many Wrens ; two killed, also one Red- 

 breast ; May 27th, 11 p.m., Wrens and Wliitethroats, five killed 

 (these last notes are referable to the spring migration) ; Sept. 12th, 

 Wrens and tliree Redbreasts strike glass. At Spurn this autumn 

 the Common Wren did not appear before the middle of December ; 

 they usually arrive about the end of October.! Redbreasts were 

 very numerous at Spurn on Oct. 30th, wind blowing very fresh 

 from N.E. None reported from Heligoland, but a great many 

 Accentor modularis on Oct. 29th, wind S.E. and E. 



GoLDEN-CRESTED Wren. — Most exceptionally scarce ; only one 

 mentioned, at the Cockle, on Oct. 16th, at 3 p.m., wind N.N.E., 

 when one came on board and was caught. Three were seen in a 

 garden near Spurn on Oct. 27th and 28th ; none, so far as I am 

 aware, on any part of the Lincolnshire and Durham coasts, neither 

 ai'e they mentioned in the Heligoland report. 



Titmice. — At the Gull-stream, Sept. 17th, 3.20 a.m., thick, 

 rain, E., several Titmice seen round lantern amongst the Fly- 

 catchers. Mr. Gatke remarks, " There have been no Parus major 

 all this autumn, and we have actually seen only one bird"; early 

 in October, " daily some Parus atcr, that come here rarely but 

 when there is an appearance of easterly winds." 



Wheatear. — At Hunstanton, May 24th, 1 1 p.m. to 2 a.m., drizzly 

 rain, forty-one small birds killed, amongst them three Wheatears. 

 At Cromer, Aug. 16th, 1 a.m., several Wheatears; four killed. 



Titlark, Anthiis sp.? — At Spurn, May 25th, 1 a.m., rain, 

 several Titlarks killed (referable to the spring migration), At 

 the South-sand Head, Oct. 12th, 3 a.m., N.E., dense fog, Titlarks, 

 amongst thousands of other birds, around and passing lantern. 



Shore Lark, Otocorys alpestris. — On Dec. 19th two were shot, 

 from a small flock on the Humber side of Spurn Point ; these 

 were received in the flesh on the 22nd by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, of 

 Leeds. t At Heligoland, on Oct. 1st, "some flights"; 5th, "some 

 score"; 8th, "a great many"; 10th, "many flights"; on the 24th 

 likewise, and again on the 29th, " many." 



t A friend, the owner of several steam-tugs, informs me that he has frequently 

 known the Common "Wren to come on board his vessels when far Irom land on the 

 North Sea.— J. C. 



I Mr. Clarke subsequently informed me that on March I8th, this year, he saw a 

 flock of about twenty Shore Larks at Spurn, and that during the past winter thirty- 

 three have been shot there, in the proportion of two males to one female. — J. C. 



