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and Gatke records an extraordinary strong 

 migration of Larks, Thrushes, StarHngs, Curlews 

 and Plovers. On the i6th, in similar weather, "an 

 extremely strong migration of Thrushes, Larks, 

 Finches and Starlings " is recorded. 



Here now are a few reports made on the same 

 dates on the East coast of England, with the 

 weather overcast and misty, and the wind E.N.E. 

 From the Fame Islands we hear of a great rush 

 of Fieldfares night and day, and of similar rushes 

 at the Dudgeon Light-vessel off the Wash, 200 

 miles further south. We also hear of very large 

 arrivals of Blackbirds by day and night striking 

 the entire eastern coast-line of England from 

 October 15th to the i8th ; further, that Chaffinches 

 arrived mainly in two large Flights between October 

 12 — 1 6th ; that a very heavy immigration of Sky- 

 larks took place, the bulk of the birds arriving 

 in enormous rushes on October 15th, i6th, and 

 17th; that enormous numbers of Starlings arrived 

 from the 12th to the 19th, and large numbers were 

 killed at the lights ; that an almost continuous rush 

 of Hooded Crows and Rooks appeared from the 

 15th to the 1 7th, between the Humber and Thanet. 

 Again, in the autumn of 1884, Gatke records 

 on October 24th (clear and fine, with wind S.E.), 

 " monstrous " numbers of Rooks, Hooded Crows 

 and Jackdaws, the two latter species passing in 

 mixed flights of ten and twelve minutes each, with 

 short interruptions or gaps, the flocks extending as 

 far as the eye could reach north and south from 



