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within thirty feet, and this continued year after year. On the Lake 

 mountains the prey of the Peregrine consists of golden plover, grouse, 

 ring-ouzels, and the water-fowl that stay by the tarns. When it 

 descends to the valleys, ringdoves, rabbits, leverets, and the larger 

 thrushes constitute its chief food ; though, in autumn and winter this 

 is more varied. At these times we have, in addition to the resident 

 birds, those which appear on migration, and which are usually seen 

 about the low-lying mosses and marshes. Here they feed upon 

 shore-haunting birds, especially dunlins. 



NOTES FROM 

 THE SPURN IN THE SPRING OF 1888. 



JOHN CORDEAUX, M.B.O.U., 

 Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. 



Ring-Ousel {Tardus torquatiis). — May 6th. A fine old cock 

 bird, now in my possession, was picked up dead near Easington. 

 There was, I am told, a very great immigration of the species 

 in the first week in May, at Kilnsea, and as many as twenty were 

 seen in one field. 



Wryneck {Tynx torquilld). — One, a male, was obtained near 

 Kilnsea in the spring. The Wryneck maybe considered one of 

 the rarest visitors to the Spurn district. 



Hoopoe {Upttpa epops). — One, a female, was found dead near 

 Easington, on May nth. It had been observed in the neigh- 

 bourhood for two or three days previously. 



Dotterel {Eudromias mofinellus), — A small trip of eight were seen 

 in a field between Easington and Kilnsea, on the 25th. 



Bartailed Godwit {Limosa lapponka), — I did not see any on 

 the Lincolnshire side of the Humber in May. At Spurn, how- 

 ever, they were very numerous on the sands near Kilnsea 

 throughout the month. Also, unusual numbers of Oyster- 

 catchers {Hceniatopus ostt'nlegus) and Curlews {Nufuenius 

 arquata). 



Shelduck {Tadoma cornutd). — I was very pleased to find three 

 pairs of these nesting on the Kilnsea Warren^ and another pair 

 nearer the Point. They were extremely tame, continuing to feed 

 when I stood within thirty yards and watched them through 

 a glass, and it was difficult to realise that they were really 

 wild birds. 



ftine 1st, 1888. 



Naturalist, 



