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landshire, flying north.* On these three days there was a 

 violent gale (force 6-8) in the north of Scotland which, 

 according to the Meteorological Office, commenced in the 

 S.W. and veered to the N.W., against which these Gannets 

 were presumably making head. 



5. Other statistics of extensive Gannet movements 

 collected for Mr. Harvie-Brown are to be found in the 

 "Migration Reports" — see particularly those for 1881 

 (p. 11), 1882 (p. 61), 1883 (pp. 23, 72), 1884 (pp. 31, 88), 

 1885 (pp. 30, 105), 1886 (pp. 20, 74). 



Observations taken in Ireland. — For Ireland Mr. R. M. 

 Barrington has collected many valuable data of the move- 

 ments of Gannets, which are given in detail, but without 

 stating the direction of the wind, in " The Migration of Birds 

 as Observed at Irish Lighthouses " (1900), pp. 249, 252— 

 as well as in the second part of this work, entitled " Reports 

 on the Migration of Birds " (pp. 53, 119, 191, 259, 326, 378, 

 444, 492, 535, 613). Mr. Barrington is of opinion that there 

 is a spring migration of Gannets northwards up the east 

 and west coasts of Ireland, and at the same time westwards 

 along the south and north coasts (p. 250), Not only has 

 he recorded numerous autumnal observations, but also many 

 which were made in December and January, and these 

 most likely have no reference to Irish-bred Gannets, but to 



* " Beport," 1881, p. 50, 



