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9 P.M. [F. B. W.]. Uudromias morinellus, Dotterel. — Great 

 Cotes, May 4th and 5th, trip of eight. Eobin Hood's Bay, 

 Yorkshire, September, first week, six shot ; Whitby, 6th, four ; 

 Seaton-Carew, 10th, one shot. Vanellus vulgaris, Lapwing. — 

 Outer Dowsing L.V., October 6th, great rush with others ; Leman 

 and Ower L.V., 8th, many during night to W. ; Inner Dowsing 

 L.V., 17th, one. Languard L.H., November 8th, hundreds at 2 

 P.M. : 26th, 3 A.M. till daylight, with many others. Great Cotes, 

 December 13th, about 12,000 in one field twenty-four hours 

 before the frost commencing on the 14th ; Whitby, 24th, all 

 morning in small flocks, twenty to forty, coming in from sea. 

 Eedcar, January 21st, 1887, S.W., strong; and 22d, W.KW, 

 many with larks coming in from sea and going W. Strepsilas 

 interpres, Turnstone. — Yarmouth, May 14th, some ; Great Cotes, 

 18th, a dozen in various plumage. Yarmouth, September 8th, 

 some. Hcematopus ostralegus, Oystercatcher. — Eedcar, August 

 5th to end of month and to September 7th, many. Leman and 

 Ower L.v., June 18th, one killed. 



Scolopacid^ Recurvirostra avocetta, Avocet. — Eedcar, August 

 5th, 12.10 p.m., one (I am sure of species. — T. H. N.). 

 Phalaropus fulicarius, Grey Phalarope. — October 14th, one 

 picked up at Bassingham, near Lincoln. Scolopax rusticula, 

 Woodcock. — Spring : Longstone L.H., April 3d, 1.30 p.m., S. by 

 E., one Woodcock to E. Autumn : Farn L.H., October 4th, one ; 

 Flambro', 5th, some. " First flight " at Coquet Island, Whitby, 

 Spurn, and Norfolk coast on 6th. At Whitby L.H., one struck 

 at 1.30 A.M., probably marking the time of arrival of the flight 

 on the East Coast ; wind south-easterly, overcast, misty. The 

 second or "great flight," from October 16th to 25th, from 

 the Farn Islands to the Norfolk coast, birds dropping here and 

 there in a desultory fashion, and nowhere plentiful, wind E. 

 and E.S.E. ; on October 15th to 16th a gale from E.S.E. A 

 few on October 28th, 29th, and 30th, and scattered occurrences 

 up to November 15th. The last recorded as coming in from 

 the sea was at Tees L.v., December 18th, going W.; wind W.S.W. 

 Gallinago ccelestis, Common Snipe. — Longstone L.H., August 8th, 

 one; 23d, one. Tetney, August 12th, flight. Whitby L.H., 

 October 4th, 4 a.m., one killed. Longstone l.h., October 4th, 

 1 A.M., one heard in flight. Yarmouth, October 30th, flight ; 

 Coquet, November 18th, 8 a.m., S.S.E., four. G. gallinula, Jack- 



