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route for Ouessant, an the night of the 7"" of Septem- 

 ber 1898. The follovving day was ushered inof adense sea- 

 fog, and, as a consequence, the voyage to Ouessant had 

 to be abandoned. 



Fortunaty thcre is an estuary at Le Gonquet, and here 

 we devoted a few hours to observing the various migra- 

 tory birds that were feeding on the muddy shores left 

 exposed by the tide. 



Here we noted : Tringa canutus, T. suharquata., T. alpina^ 

 Totanus canescens^ T. hijpoleucus^ 2\ calidris^ Machetes 

 piignax, Strepsilas iiiterpres, Numeniu?, arquatus, N. 

 phoeopus^ etc. Le Gonquet we believe to be an excellent 

 place for observing the movements of birds of passage, 

 especially oi i\\G Limicolse .W c also observed other species, 

 and thosc will be enumerated in the annotatcd list 

 which forms the concluding portion of this little contri- 

 bution. 



We arrived at Ouessant an the O^*" of September ; and 

 had hoped to remain some weeks an the island. Unfortu- 

 nately, however, the nature of our mission was misun- 

 derstood by the authoritics, and we were obliged to leave 

 Ouessant an the 17^'\ greatly to our regret. 



During this short sojourn we observed the following 

 Resident Birds on the Island : Corvus corax^ Passer domes- 

 ticus^ Linola cannahina, Emberiza citrinella, E. ?niliaria, 

 Alauda arvensis, Anthiis pratensis, A. obsciiriis, Erithacus 

 ruhecula, Accentor modularis, Troglodytes parvulus, Pra- 

 tincola rubicola, Falco peregrinus, jEgialitis hiaticula, and, 

 perhaps, Hxmatopus ostralegus. 



The only Swmner Visitors were Hirundo rustica and 

 Sylvia cinerea. 



The Birds of Passage observed between the O**" and 

 17'" of September — a period of phenomenally fme 

 weather, andthus much against any pronouncedmigratory 

 movement — were Turdus iliacus, Saxicola oenanthe, Pra- 

 tincola rubetra, Motacilla alba, M. melanope, M. Rayi, 

 Circuscyaneus, Accipiter nisus, Falco tinnuncuhis^ Pandion 

 haliästits,Ardea cinerea, Turiur communis, Eudromias mo- 



