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our summer visitors, and arrivals of winter visitors in small 

 numbers. To the end of the period we have stray records 

 of summer visitors departing, and winter visitors arriving in 

 very small numbers, but there is no trace of the usual big 

 immigration of winter birds nor the long list of passage 

 migrants which is usually the feature of October. 



November. 



The temperature during November was above the 

 normal, and the wind was always from some westerly 

 quarter. Up to the 5th there were small arrivals of winter 

 visitors, and these continued in driblets, in fact in ones and 

 twos, to the end of the month. The arrivals were enormously 

 below the normal. 



December. 



December showed a continuance of the westerly type 

 of weather, with somewhat variable temperature ; the move- 

 ments were extraordinarily small, minute numbers of winter 

 visitors are recorded, and there were a few Little Auks in 

 Fife. We have never had winter visitors recorded in such 

 small numbers before. 



