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N OTES 



MIGBATORY MOVEMENTS 



THE AUTUMN OF 1912. 



Pay Migration is denoted thus: September 30th. 

 Night Migration is denoted thus: September 29th/30th. 



THE MISTLE-THEUSB {Tardus mucivorus). 



The records of this species are too scanty to throw much light on its 

 migration. No movement of importance was reported till the latter 

 part of August, when Hocks were seen at Braernar (Aberdeen) going 

 east on the 20th, at Hindhead (Surrey) and Ulverston (Lancashire) on 

 the 23rd, and at Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) on the 25th. 



During September a few isolated movements were recorded. Con- 

 siderable numbers were seen on the Sussex coa^t on the 2nd, and at 

 Hindhead on the 6th; there was an influx near Cheltenham on the 

 1-lth; single birds were reported from Holy Island (Northumberland) 

 on the 18th and 22nd ; and there seems to have been a passage to the 

 south-west at Pontefract (Yorkshire) on the 25th, and at Stocksfield 

 (Northumberland) on the 26th, while a few winter-residents arrived in 

 mid-Kent towards the end of the month. 



Some passing migrants were noticed at Spurn Head (Yorkshire) on 

 the 3rd and 4th of October, and single birds at Holy Island on the 6th 

 and 12th ; there was a decided increase on the Sussex ccast on the 10th 

 and 11th, and about the same time flocks were seen passing near Cheadle 

 (Staffordshire), especially on the 16th. After the middle of the month 

 a movement of some magnitude was in progress near Wooler (Northum- 

 berland), more particularly on the 22nd and 23rd, and at Lowestoft 

 (Suffolk) there was a passage towards the south on the 21st and 22nd, 

 the movement being renewed on the 30th. 



