:MIGRAT0RY birds : SPRING 121 



Greater Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Whitethroat, 

 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Garden-Warbler, Willow- 

 Warbler, Chiff-Chaff, Sedge- Warbler, White Wagtail, 

 Grey-headed Wagtail, Tree- Pipit, Red-backed Shrike, 

 Pied and Common Flycatchers, Swallow, Martin, 

 Ortolan Bunting, Swift, Nightjar, Wryneck, Cuckoo, 

 Honey-Buzzard, Osprey, Corn-Crake, Dotterel, Red- 

 necked Phalarope, Great Snipe, Little Stint, Curlew 

 Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Green 

 Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Black - tailed Godwit, 

 Whimbrel, and Buffon's Skua. 



Much information on these movements will be 

 afforded in the studies devoted to Fair Isle. 



Emigration of Winter Visitors. — May, especially its 

 first half, is also a month for much emigration on the 

 part of those northern birds which have wintered in our 

 islands. These departure movements, as already stated, 

 are much mixed with those of the birds of passage also 

 proceeding northwards at the same time ; and when the 

 species are identical, it is impossible to discriminate 

 between them. These birds flit away from us during 

 the night, taking their departure from the eastern and 

 northern coasts. 



These May emigrants (those marked thus * being 

 also birds of passage) are the *Mistle-Thrush, *Field- 

 fare, *Redwing, ^Blackbird, *Song-Thrush, ^Redbreast, 

 *Hedge-Accentor, *Meadow-Pipit, ^Chaffinch, *Bram- 

 bling, ^Siskin, Mealy Redpoll, Yellow Bunting, 

 Reed-Bunting, ^^Snow Bunting, *Short-eared Owl, 

 *Long-eared Owl, *Ring Dove, *White-fronted Goose, 

 Pink-footed Goose, Barnacle Goose, *Wigeon, ^Pintail, 

 Scaup, Golden-eye, Long-tailed Duck, ^Merganser, 

 Ringed Plover, Lapwing, *Golden Plover, ^-'Grey Plover, 



