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Skylarks still hug the waves when there is no wind ?* How 

 far the migration extended I am miable to say, for ought 

 we know it may have been many miles, and possibly was 

 going on most of the night. My correspondent, Mr. Vincent, 

 who keeps a daily journal, assures me that at Horsey, which 



DIRECTION OF THE WIND ON OCTOBER 25TH. 



lies north of Yarmouth, their numbers were " simply wonder- 

 ful," and probably they were equally abundant over the 

 intervening eleven miles. But Larks were by no means the 

 only birds passing on that memorable day, yet I gather that 

 no other species approached them in numbers. Mr. Vincent 

 had entered the wind in his diary as " a light breeze from the 



* See studies in Bird Migration, II., p. 14. 



