106 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol xm. 



birds outside the cultivated area along the west coast, the 

 only part of the island used by them as a halting ground was 

 the bare, uncultivated plateau round the lighthouse. This, 

 after a migration night, swarmed with them ; while on the 

 3rd every tiny bay and inlet among the southern rocks was 

 also crowded with Wheatears sheltering from the wind. 

 From this date to the 17th there was a nightly arrival or 

 departure (or both), but the numbers present were never so 

 high as at first and sank to one or two birds only on the 8th, 

 1 2th and 17th. The latter remained up to the time of our 

 departure. The large race was already present in small 

 numbers on September 3rd, while an arrival on the night of 

 I3th/i4th consisted entirely of birds of this form. 



The Whinchat (Saxicola r. nthetra). 



Not recorded from the lighthouse, but is probably a double- 

 passage migrant. 



In September 1913 three birds were present on the 3rd, and 

 two others had arrived by the 4th. All five were seen on the 

 5th, two had gone on the 6th and all by the 8th. Five or six 

 new ones arrived on that night, and two only remained 

 on the loth and these had gone by the 12th. A single bird 

 appeared on the 20th and left the same night. The earUer 

 birds were all seen on the southern half of the island with the 

 Wheatears, but the others were scattered singly along the 

 bramble-covered walls in the cultivated area. 



The British Stonechat {Saxicola torquata hibernans). 



Two light records only, small numbers on Februar\- 

 I7th/i8th, 1912, and a single bird on the 27th;'28th, 1913. 



It is probable that the Stonechat is, perhaps irregularly, a 

 double- passage migrant. 



As a summer resident evidently not constant. Not seen 

 by Mr. Aplin ; a single excited male seen by Mr. Coward, 

 who deduced the probable presence of a female and brood. 



In June 1913 there were at least three pairs on the lower 

 slopes of the mountain just above the cultivation and one 

 pair at least in some gorse-covered fields on the west side of 

 the island. It was, therefore, quite as plentiful as on any 

 area of equal extent and nature on the mainland. One pair 

 was building on the 12th, while others were feeding fledged 

 young. 



In September the young and old birds were present in the 

 same numbers, and no fluctuation was noticed. 



{To be continued.) 



