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The light-records for October were as follows : — Thirty or forty at 

 Lynn Well Light-vessel (Wash) on the 9th/10th and about a hundred 

 on the 13th/i4th; a few flying S.W. past the Kentish Knock Light- 

 vessel on the morning of the L'Jth ; several at Spurn Head Light 

 (Yorksliire) and single birds at Chicken Rock Light (Isle of Man) and 

 Ilanois Light (Guernsey) on the 16th/17th ; an influx at Noup Head 

 Light (Orkney) on the 19th and numbers at the same light on 

 the 24th. 



In November a flock of about seventy was observed in Haddington 

 on the 8th, a few arrived in Cheshire on the 11th, a great increase 

 in numbers taking place on tlie 18th. In Perthshire a few large flocks 

 were reported on the :i6th. The only light-record was that of a single 

 bird killed at Whitby Light (Yorkshire) on the lst/2nd. 



THE LINNET {Lmota cannabma). 



Large flocks were congregating in Kent about the end of August. 

 In September great numbers appeared in Cheshire on the 7th, several 

 large flocks were passing south in Leicester on the 30th, and flocks also 

 going south were observed on the coast of Suflblk between the 12th and 

 27th. In Hampshire verj' large numbers were reported going W.N.W. 

 on the 1st, 6tli and 27th and smaller numbers (direction not stated) on 

 the 13th. 



In October Linnets were reported as very numerous on Inchkeith 

 (Forth) on the 29th, and about twenty were seen on the Isle of May on 

 the 20th and 21st. Immense flocks were observed on the south coa^t of 

 Yorkshire between the 6th and 16lh, more especially on the 6th and 

 14th. In Leicestershire many flocks were passing during the month, 

 the movement being most marked during the last week. Flocks were 

 passing south on the Suflblk coast throughout October, in large numbers 

 on the Uth and 12th, from the 18th to the 20tli and 24tli to 27th, and 

 in still larger numbers on the 19th. 



Numbers arrived in Devonshire on the 6th and a large flock on the 

 south coast of Dorset on the 22nd. In Hampshire large nimibers were 

 pas!^ing to the west on the 2nd and in Sussex to the south-west on the 

 23rd and 26th. A few were observed going south-west in Kent on 

 the 6th. 



In November a small flock appeared on the Bass Rock (Forth) on tlie 

 28th, and a flock going suuth was noted in Northumlerland on the tHh. 

 On the Suflblk coast flocks were reported as flying south between the 1st 

 and 21st, the movement being specially marked on the 6th, 8th, 13th, 

 14th and 22nd; a few goiug south were recorded in Sussex on the 28th 

 and to the south and west on the 30th. 



In December a very large flock was reported in Northumberland on 

 the 10th and two were seen on Fair Isle ou the 26th. 



