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NOTE— ORNITHOLOGY. 



Bird-notes from the Humber District.— On the 9th, loth, and nth 

 of October a pair of Kites — ' fork-tailed gleads,' as Mr. Dobson, of the ' Donna 

 Nook ' Lifeboat, called them— were seen beating about over the rabbit-warrens 

 near Somercotes. 



On the 19th I saw at Mr. Musham's, Lincoln, a remarkably fine male Buzzard, 

 one of the lightest in colour I have seen — the head and upper parts with the feathers 

 broadly margined with white ; the under parts yellowish white, with only a few 

 dark streaks. The iris in this bird, Mr. Musham told me, was hazel-yellow. It 

 was trapped on October 2nd, in Mr. Chaplin's Park at Blankney, and was probably 

 one of a pair of light-coloured Buzzards which frequented that locality during the 

 summer. 



Mr. Musham had also a Grey Phalarope, taken at Bassingham, near Lincoln, 

 on the 14th. 



A young Gannet, in the spotted plumage, was captured near Kirton-in-Lindsey 

 about the same time ; like the Phalarope, probably driven inland by the gale on the 

 14th and 15th. 



In the second week in October a Little Grebe was killed in the night against 

 the lantern of the Spurn Lighthouse. 



A few Ring Ouzels have occurred on the Lincolnshire coast — young males of 

 the year, with the pectoral gorget smoke-grey and very indistinct, in fact barely 

 perceptible. So far, however, the season has been a very unfavourable one for 

 immigrants arriving on the coast.— John Cordeaux, Great Cotes, Oct. 23rd. 



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