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The Swift ( Cypselus opus ) is not unfrequently a late straggler 
in our north-east marshes ; some, young birds as a rule, remaining 
long after the main body have departed. The latest dates I have 
recorded since 1872, are Oct. 10th, 1873 ; Sept. 30th, 1874; 
Oct. 13th, 1878. 
The Stock Dove ( Colombo cenae ) is gradually increasing, and 
now nests regularly in this parish where formerly it was quite 
unknown. I have found Stock Doves nesting in ivy on walls, and 
on the flat boughs of Scotch firs : it also nests on the. Flamborough 
cliffs and in holes of inland rocks in the Yorkshire dales. 
The Turtle Dove ( Colombo turtur), which quite recently did 
not occur north of Lincoln, now nests regularly in at least one 
locality in the extreme north of the county. 
The range of the Red-legged Partridge ( ' Peril ix rufa) is 
gradually extending, and it is becoming quite common in the 
southern division of the county, in that part immediately border- 
ing the Wash opposite to the coast of Norfolk ; it is also now 
known as regularly nesting in the extreme north of the county. 
It is seldom we find the Grey Plover (Squatarola cinerea) in 
the autumn with any traces of the nuptial dress, yet as late as 
October 21st (1873), I saw an old bird in full summer plumage on 
the coast. 
The Turnstone (Strcpsilas inter pres ) in some instances remains 
very late in the season. On the 7th of June, IS 78, at Spurn 
Point, near the mouth of the Humber, there was a flock of seven ; 
also a single bird in mature plumage which rose from the sand 
hills very much as if it had a nest in the locality. 
The Bittern ( Botaurus stellar is) never occurs except as a winter 
immigrant. Recent appearances of the Bittern have been, as is 
usually the case, in the depth of winter: since 1872, one in 
December and four in January. 
In 1873, Whimbrcl ( Numcnius phoeopus) remained on our coast 
throughout the summer. The Redshank ( Totanus colidris ) has 
nested recently in two or three localities in North Lincolnshire. 
Up to 1872 I was never fortunate in coming across an 
example of the Wood Sandpiper ( Totanus r/lareola ); since this date 
it has occurred on three or four occasions in the autumn during the 
latter part of September, and on one occasion in the winter of 
1874 — 75, in December, on the Humber flats. Since 1872 the 
