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Seebohm missed. 5th. — A male in garden ; shot by 

 Seebohm. Gth. — A bird in the trees near the stair. 7th. — 

 One in my garden. 2Gth. — One in my garden. 



1877. 21st and 28th September. — A bird each day; that on Latter in 



my garden. 



1878. 2nd October. — A pretty bird in thorn-bush in garden; did not 



obtain it. 5th to 9th. — Saw a bird eacli day in garden ; 

 was it the same bird"! 24th. — A bird in the trees by the 

 stair. 



1879. 28th September. — One bird ; on the same day two Emberiza pusilla 



and one E. rustica. 1 4th October. — Ludwig shot a fine male ; 

 another example seen by Glaus Aeuckens, and two birds side 

 by side by Jan Aeuckens. 



1880. IGth September. — One bird, not obtained. 25th. — Obtained a 



fine example ; .saw another, besides another larger Warbler 

 with a very broad alar band. 30th. — Saw one example ; 

 likewise a S. tristis in garden. 8th October. — Saw one bird 

 quite close in garden. 



1881. 29th September. — One bird, not obtained. 



1882. 23rd and 27th October. — Saw one bird each day. 



1883. 17th September. — Shot a fine bird. 



1885. 2Gth September. — One bird. 28th. — Shot two fine examples. 



1886. 7th October and 9th November. — A bird on each date respec- 



tively, not shot. 



1887. 11th October. — One bird with a very yellow stripe on crown. 



The last of these examples, and a Nutcracker {Nucifraga) shot on 

 the 15th of the same month, were the only eastern occurrences during 

 the whole 'of the autumn migration. This was owing to the violent 

 west winds prevailing, almost without exception, at that time, which 

 invariably, in the most decisive manner, prevent the movements of 

 migration from proceeding within the range of our observation. 



110. — Pallas's Willow Warbler [Goldhahnchen-Laubvogel]. 



SYLVIA PROREGULUS, Pallas.^ 



Motacilla proregulus. Pallas, Zoog. Boss.-Asiat. i. 499. 



Claus Aeuckens has been a devoted fowler and gunner from his 

 earliest youth. Before he had reached the age when he might be 

 entrusted with powder and shot, his shooting gear consisted prin- 

 cipally of a hunting-bag full of rounded pebbles, which he knew 

 how to employ with the most astonishing dexterity. It was with 

 such a pebble that, at the age of eleven years, he hit the first 

 example of Emberiza rustica ever killed on the island. 



In later years, at times when the Guillemots were fiymg along 

 the edge of the cUff at a tearing speed, I have seen him hit five or 



' Phylloscopwi prorefjuhm (Pallas). 



