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alba, Linn., some ; Sept. 9th, M.jiava, many. Great Cotes, Sept. 

 2nd, Grey Wagtail, M. melanope, flocks of twenty to thirty in bean- 

 fields ; only one old bird seen. Spurn, 7th, several. Heligoland, 

 April 26th, W.N.W., Kichard's Pipit, Anthiis richardii, VieilL, 

 one, a small male bird ; 28th, one male, very pale, but not faded 

 or abraded. Autumn : Heligoland, Sept. 28th, S.W., fresh, 

 A. richardii, a few; Oct. 8th, a few shot. Meadow Pipit, A. 

 pratensis (Linn.), Sept. 7th, potato-fields crowded with them, 

 and up to Oct. 19th a great many ; Oct. 17th, marvellous num- 

 bers. Tree Pipit, A, trivialis (Linn.), Sept. 19th to Oct. 11th, 

 numerous. Eock Pipit, A. ohscurus (Lath.), some with pratensis. 

 Great Cotes, Sept. 2nd, Meadow and Tree Pipits in small flocks 

 in bean-fields. Inner Dowsing l.v., Sept. 12th, fifty Titlarks 

 during day. Fame Inner l.h., Nov. 20th, 2 p.m., sixty to S.W. 

 Laniid^. — Spring: Spurn, May 28th. Ked-backed Shrike, 

 Lanius collurio, Linn., two, male and female, night of 27th or 

 morning of 28th. Autumn : Great Grey Shrike, L. excubitor, 

 Linn., Spurn, Sept. 18th, one ; 19th, one ; and several during 

 the first fortnight in October. Heligoland, Oct. 5th, L. major, 

 one, a second during day ; 15th, one ; 18th, L. excubitor, one, an 

 old male. 



Waxwing, Ajiipelis gamdus, Linn. — Heligoland, Nov. 21st, 

 one female. Seaton Carew, Jan. 5th, 1883, several seen near 

 Middlesborough and Guisborough, some shot. Cleethorpes, near 

 Grimsby, early morning, 15th, one in a garden close to coast ; 

 same time, one near Wragby, Lincolnshire ; 17th, large flocks, 

 several scores, near Goole, fourteen obtained. Several also in 

 Norfolk near East Coast early in 1883. 



MusciCAPiD^. — Pied Flycatcher, M. atricapilla, Linn. — Heli- 

 goland, June 27th, pretty numerous, young, and forward to Sept. 

 20th in large numbers ; during the latter time with many Spotted 

 Flycatchers, M. grisola. Spurn, Sept. 12th, Pied Flycatchers, a 

 few, very small birds comparatively, measuring one inch less in 

 length than those obtained in 1881. The Common Flycatcher 

 was last observed in North Lincolnshire on Sept. 25th. ''Fly- 

 catchers " are frequently mentioned as occurring round the 

 lanterns at night ; it is, however, impossible to say what birds 

 are intended, as the term is used indiscriminately for many of 

 the small insect-eating birds. 



HiRUNDiNiD^. — Swallow, H, rustica, Linn. — Spring : First at 



