604 NOTES FROM THE 
Both the Swallows and the Martins had almost entirely 
departed by the middle and end of September, but I still saw 
some of the former on October 11th, and observed one of the 
latter flying up the Danube on the 15th of that month. The 
Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) came this year in very small 
numbers, the first having been seen on the auen of the Danube 
at Vienna in the middle of September, and solitary individuals 
are even still to be met with here and there. This year there 
was a great flight of Redwings and Song-Thrushes, but it 
only lasted a few days, the greatest number being seen between 
October 7th and 15th. 
The Mallards collected early in large flocks, for at the end of 
September I already noticed numbers of them on the Laxen- 
burg pond, and on the Danube they were exceptionally 
abundant. 
The Geese, but only one species, came to the Danube in the 
beginning of October, and during the day thousands of them 
pitched on the sandbanks by the so-called Schénauer Wasser, 
opposite the village of Schénau. On the 15th of October, 
which was a grey, misty, rainy, and particularly favourable 
day, I there observed countless myriads, gigantic swarms of 
them, between eleven and three o’clock. They all came from 
the north-west, and settled on the sluices and the sand- 
banks with a loud cackling. Their migration lasted until the 
end of October, but their numbers had then much decreased. 
The Shoveller (Anas elypeata) has also often been met 
with since the beginning of the present month, and on the 
15th the first Red-throated Diver (Colymbus septentrionalis) 
was seen, while a young Crested Grebe was killed on an arm 
of the river. The various kinds of Sandpipers, of which there 
were large numbers on the Danube at the end of September, 
have already departed. 
The Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) appeared in 
great abundance at the end of last month, and they are still 
