THE ZooLocist—JAanvary, 1872. 2899 
which appeared to bo almost gregarious in November, and 
unusually plentiful all through the winter. Wheatears, sedge 
warblers, stonechats, robins, wrens and hedgesparrows breed on 
the islands, but the flycatchers, pied, spotted and redbreasted 
(which latter will be remembered as having occurred on the 
Islands), willow wrens, blackcaps, gold- and firecrested wrens, 
black and common redstarts, whitethroats, redbacked and gray 
shrikes, seem either to have avoided the Islands altogether or to 
have appeared only as solitary individuals. Swifts had probably 
come and gone before my visit; sand martins appeared for a few 
days in October, and the November frost took away the last of the 
swallows. 
End of July. By this date curlews, dunlins, common sandpipers 
and turnstones had arrived; the three former species breed on the 
Cornish moors, which they leave to a bird between July 10th and 
20th, about which date green sandpipers begin to arrive from some 
more northern breeding-place. 
August. Northerly winds prevailed during the month. Whim- 
brels and quails were observed on the 8th, the latter had probably 
bred as usual on the islands, and none were seen much later than 
September, though I have shot an occasional bird in Cornwall 
much later. Sanderlings arrived about the 20th, on which day the 
first snipes, about twenty, were observed, a rather larger arrival 
than usual so early, though a family party of five or six is often 
met with in August. ‘The capture of a spotted redshank was 
recorded towards the end of the month, and common redshanks, 
green sandpipers and yellow wagtails observed. 
September Ist to 15th. With south and south-west winds there 
arrived flocks of curlew sandpipers, which appear to have been 
particularly plentiful on the island of Bryher; five knots were shot 
between the 5th and 8th, and about the same time five pectoral 
sandpipers; one of these was described to me as an adult female 
with cuneiform marks on the breast, and scapulars edged with 
brownish white ; another as a young male, with linear marks on the 
breast and scapulars, ferruginous edged. 
September Sth. First wood wren seen. 
September 7th. Bartailed godwit and teal. 
September 14th. First gray phalarope and some common stints; 
no Temminck’s stints at all this vear. 
September 16th. About this date, when your correspondent visited 
