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being heaviest both as regard the numbers recorded and the mind)er of 

 recording lights on the nights of the 16th and 17th. At dawn on the 

 13th the birds left the Skerries towards the N.E., and on the 17th and 

 18th they left the Carnarvon Bay Light-vessel travelling E.S.E. (i. e. 

 towards the nearest land, the Carnarvon coast). On the 19th/20th a 

 single bird was taken at Lynmouth Foreland Light (N. Devon). 



The earliest record of movement on the east coast came from the 

 Wash on the night of the 14th of February, and with the exception of 

 an interval from the 17th to the 20th, movements were recorded nightly 

 up to the 2oth and during the daytime on the 25th and 26th at stations 

 between Spurn Head and the Kentish Knock. On the nights of the 

 14th, 17th, 24th and 25th tlie numbers recorded were large, on the 

 other nights they were quite small. 



On the 3rd of March a large flock was seen at Bloxworth (Dorset), 

 on the 9th/10tli many Song-Thrushes occm-red at St. Catherine's Light 

 (FLampshire), and on the 27th and 31st considerable numbers arrived at 

 Dungeness (Kent), disappearing during the following nights, while a few 

 more arrived there on the 2nd uf April. On the 15th/16tli of April single 

 birds were taken at St. Catherine's and Ilanois Lights, the one from the 

 latter being a specimen of the Continental race. 



On the west coast considerable numbers were again recorded on 

 paj^sage on the N.W. coast of Wales and in the Isle of Man on the 

 14th/15lli and again in the Isle of Man on the 23rd/24th, while small 

 numbers were recorded from the Skerries on the 13th/14th of April, 

 Bardsey Light on the 21st/22nd, and on the Isle of Man on the 

 24th/25th and on the 4th/5th of May. 



On the east coast migration was recorded at stations between Spurn 

 Head and the Kentish Knock at intervals between the 13th of March 

 and the end of the month ; the numbers seem to have been quite small, 

 with two exceptions, viz., on the 14th/15th, when birds were passing 

 Spurn Head Light continuously for an hour after midnight, and on the 

 27th, when many were seen flying N.W. past the Kentish Knock Light- 

 vessel. 



It will be noticed that nearly all the records of this species were 

 derived from light-stations, and that almost the whole of the movements 

 thus recorded took place during the dark nights in the second half of 

 each month, so that it was unsafe to base very definite conclusions upon 

 them. 



THE BED WING {Turdus iliacus). 



The first Redwings seen in the Plymouth district (Devon and Cornwall 

 coast) arrived on the 17th of January ; with the advent of the cold spell 

 at the end of the month their numbers gradually increased, and they 

 were very numerous betw^een the 30th and the 6th of February ; on the 



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