. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. SCOL OP A CIDM— WHIM B RE L. 257 no less than seventy-five of these \-eiy wary birds at once, as I am informed by Mr. Fitch. 'Whimhrel : Nunie/iiiis phcTopiis. Locally, "Titterel," "May- bird," or "Jack-Curlew" (Orsett). Common on the coast as a passing migrant in spring and autumn, when on its way to or from its northern breeding-stations. They are often seen until the end of May, and re-ap- - -, .-^ pear soon after the mid- dle of July. It is occa- sionally seen inland. Sheppard a
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. SCOL OP A CIDM— WHIM B RE L. 257 no less than seventy-five of these \-eiy wary birds at once, as I am informed by Mr. Fitch. 'Whimhrel : Nunie/iiiis phcTopiis. Locally, "Titterel," "May- bird," or "Jack-Curlew" (Orsett). Common on the coast as a passing migrant in spring and autumn, when on its way to or from its northern breeding-stations. They are often seen until the end of May, and re-ap- - -, .-^ pear soon after the mid- dle of July. It is occa- sionally seen inland. Sheppard and Whitear say (9. 42), " these birds arrive on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk early in May, and migrate again in the latter part of the ; In 1880, Mr. Travis received a specimen found in a field near Newport with one wing off, it having flown against the telegraph-wires. Edward Doubleday wrote in 1835 (15) that it had been killed at Sewardstone. The Rev. J. C. Atkinson writes (36. 122): "It is seen, in no great numbers, on many of our coasts in winter ; but I have met with it on the Essex Saltings only in the early spring and previous to its retirement to the north to ; Parsons has many observations on their appearance in his neighbourhood on migration. In spring he has many notes of them between the end of April and the 23rd or 24th of May : for instance, 1836, May 16, "a very large flock of forty or fifty about the lower marshes. New ; 1837, May 23rd, "saw some up the ; 1838, May 23rd, " many about; " 29th, "saw only one ; They seem usually to re-appear in the autumn about or soon after the middle of July, though in 1834, he " saw some on the sands" on June 28th. In 1843, he says that a few had arrived on July 14th, and a great many on the 24th (22).. ^>= WHIMLKEL, 1/8. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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