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1st October.— Wind S. 

 Three Lapwings. 



2nd October. — Wind S. 



A few Pied or White Wagtails ; all that were examined 

 were Pied Wagtails, two Swallows, and an Oystercatcher. 



3rd October. — Wagtails still here, one White Wagtail seen ; 

 two Wheatears, six Sky-Larks, and two or three Black- 

 backed Gulls. 



4th October.— Wind S. 



One Song-Thrush killed against the lantern. Wagtails have 

 gone. Birds seen : About twenty Sky-Larks, a Linnet, a 

 Wheatear, two Lapwings, and a Common Snipe. 

 5th October. — Wind S., fresher. Weather cloud}'. 



A Chiffchaff killed against the lantern. Lapwings heard at 

 night and three seen going south. At 8 a.m. a migration of 

 birds was in full swing. About 200 Starlings arrived. About 

 a dozen Song-Thrushes and eight Blackbirds, a few Linnets, a 

 Wagtail, a Common Snipe, a Common Wren in garden and 

 a probable Willow-Wren on a tamarisk bush. At 10 a.m. 

 some of the Thrushes and most of the Blackbirds gone. 

 Later, all the migrants gone, only two or three Thrushes left. 

 6th October. — Wind N.N.E. Fog threatening. 



A Dunlin killed against the lantern. Yesterday's migrants 

 all gone, except one Song-Thrush. A Snow-Bunting seen 

 at the northern end of the island ; man}' Meadow-Pipits flying 

 over ; a few small flocks of Sky-Larks ; eight Swallows. 



7th October.— Wind E.S.E. 



After a dark cloudy night with fog threatening, only a few 

 migrants have come. A Blackbird ; one or two Wagtails, a 

 Sky-Lark ; a Chiffchaff ; three Turnstones ; five Carrion- 

 Crows together near the lighthouse. About 11 a.m. in the 

 lighthouse garden, a Redstart, a Robin and a Wren (? a 

 resident). Later, two Chaffinches, a Great Tit, about six 

 Pied Wagtails, one Lapwing near lighthouse, and four more 

 near the north end of the island. 



Found little heaps of shreds of oat grains disgorged by 

 Gulls, and a great pellet of bones and feathers. 



8th October. — Wind N.E. Weather sunny. 



Birds seen : two or three Blackbirds and Chaffinches, a 

 Stonechat near lighthouse, a Tree-Pipit, a Brambling, a few 

 Sky-Larks and four Lapwings. 



9th October. — Wind N. , strong. Weather very bright and clear. 

 One Swallow near lighthouse. 



