FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR igoS, 
II 
of the Wold District had also reached Mr. F. Boyes. May they 
be only the pioneers of another general immigration ! 
Partridges generally have fared even worse than last year, 
and, except in a few favourite localities, seems to have hardly 
reared any young. 
It is singular that the Red-legged Partridge has extended its 
breeding ranges round the coast-line, but does not figure in the 
game bags of some of our largest Wold shootings, e.g., Londes- 
boro' and W^arter. The records made last year point to its 
migrating along the coast, which its occurrence at Bempton earlier 
than on the high Wolds seems to corroborate. 
The Woodcock remained in the Burton Constable woods 
till about the end of April, but there is no evidence of its having 
bred there. 
The Redshank has appeared as a breeding species in a new 
district in Holderness. 
The Spurn District has been dealt with by the Yorkshire 
Naturalists' Union Protection Committee, who have special reports 
from the watcher, but we are pleased to record the occurrence of 
two rare visitors, viz., a Blue-throated Warbler, shot on 29th 
September, and a Yellow-browed Warbler, shot 30th September^ 
by Mr. H. F. Wltherby, who saw several others of each species- 
there at the same time. Eighty brace of Woodcock were shot 
at Spurn in the week commencing gth November. 
Amongst unseasonable occurrences we may mention that a 
Grasshopper Warbler was in full song at Reighton Gap, on 2nd 
and 3rd August, half way down the cliff, and sang most of the day. 
It appears hardly credible that the bird could be breeding at that 
date. 
Mr. W. H. St. Quintin reports the breeding of the Garganey 
in the north of the East Riding for the first time. Two Sabine's 
Gulls and a Fork-tailed Petrel are reported by Mr. Hewett, at 
Flamborough, in October, and a Great Northern Diver in 
November. 
Hornsea Mere. — The keeper, J . Taylor, reports that the Great 
Crested Grebe has dwindled down to three birds. Undoubtedly 
the bird is being harried to death by egg-collectors, and as cer- 
tainly the visits of parties of naturalists to the mere, however 
good for the naturalists, have a contrary effect upon the birds, 
the publicity given to these expeditions verbally, and in the press, 
attracting other parties, whose attentions are not confined to 
observation only. Surely the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 
Protection Committee could do something here, by putting on 
an extra watcher during the months of May and June,* when a 
* This suggestion has now been agreed to by the Birds' Protection 
Committee. 
