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end of the month this movement continued, but in a lesser 

 degree ; a good many uncommon visitors are recorded, the 

 most interesting being, perhaps, the Great Tits which are 

 reported from Lerwick and Fair Isle. 



November. 



The general distribution of pressure in November was 

 in close agreement with the normal ; the temperature was 

 high during the whole month, with the exception of the 

 period between the 14th and 25th, when it was very low. 

 Up to the 6th the wind was easterly, thereafter till the 

 i6th the weather was cyclonic and the wind chiefly west to 

 north; from the i6th to the 23rd easterly winds prevailed, 

 after which the southerly and south-westerly type regained 

 the ascendancy. In the first six days of the month there 

 was a continuance of the rush, the character of which was 

 the same as that recorded in October, and many species 

 were represented, sometimes in large numbers. The reports 

 come almost entirely from the north, which points to immigra- 

 tion. Up to the 22nd the movement continued, though in 

 a lesser degree, a large proportion of the records come from 

 the southern lanterns, pointing to emigration from as well 

 as immigration into our area. This would lead to the con- 

 clusion that many of the birds which arrived during the 

 previous rush were not winter visitors but passage migrants. 

 From that date till the end of the month only the dregs of 

 the rush are recorded. 



December. 



The temperature up to i8th December was generally 

 above the normal, thereafter it was below normal, and frost 

 of considerable severity prevailed from the 21st to the 24th. 

 There was a gale from the south-east from the loth to 

 the 1 6th, otherwise the wind was variable and moderate 

 in force. Up to 9th December very little is recorded, with 

 the exception of hundreds of Little Auks at Pentland 



