Tue ZooLocist—Ju y, 1872. $145 
kingfisher, waterhen, chaffinch, wheatear, two pied wagtails, three 
redstarts: and the following against the Lizard light (Cornwall) :—Pied 
flycatcher, gray wagtail, pied wagtail, two redstarts (rare), knot, sedge 
warbler (two), song thrush (two), wheatear (seven). I regard it as a great 
point gained to get even the names of the species, about which we were 
entirely in the dark. I regret that I cannot give the dates, but I must say 
I do not think they would shed as much light on migration as some people 
suppose: useful they would be, but not more so in my opinion than the 
observations at present taken by hundreds of out-door naturalists. Mr. 
Jones, the bird-stuffer at Bridlington Quay, once told me that seventy 
dozen birds flew against the Flamborough lighthouse in one night, which, if 
true, far exceeds the number mentioned by Bishop Stanley (‘ History of 
Birds,’ p. 91). They were in all probability starlings, but among them 
were sixteen ring ouzels, which were taken to him by a Mr. Metcalfe. The 
landlord of the inn spoke of “ starnells,” “ bushels at a time,” under the 
lighthouse. I have in my collection a Scops eared owl, which dashed itself 
against Cromer lighthouse, and was picked up by a boy.—J. H. Gurney, 
jun.; Northrepps, Norwich. 
Are Guernsey Birds British ?—J must thank your correspondent for his 
answer (Zool. S. S. 3109) ,to my questions (S. 8. 3066). He defines 
British as “merely Great Britain and the adjacent islets ;” I suppose the 
Shetland Isles are included in this definition. Though the Channel 
Islands ave nearer to France than to England, they are nearer to England 
than the Shetland Isles are to Scotland, so that if a line extended equally 
round Great Britain, which included the Shetland Isles, the Channel 
islands would be included also. My idea of the imaginary boundary is 
this: that it should be at a certain equal distance all round Great Britain, 
and either all objects obtained within that line to be considered British, 
whether the land is under foreign rule or not, or that where the line comes 
across foreign countries it should not take effect, so that though Calais 
might be within the line, yet because it is not part of the British empire the 
birds, &c., collected there would not be called British—cC. B. Carey; 
Candie, Guernsey. 
[I was also rather puzzled with my correspondent’s reply: the question 
whether Shetland is an “adjacent islet” is a very pertinent one—Hdward 
Newman.] 
Spring Arrivals at Carshalton.—March 6th, whitethroat; 24th, wryneck. 
April 9th, nightingale; 13th, lesser whitethroat; 17th, cuckoo heard ; 
20th, swallow; 27th, sand martin. May 14th, swift; 18th, flycatcher.— 
A. H. Smee. 
Arrival of Spring Birds.—Since I last wrote I have seen the following 
birds :—Flycatcher, May 28rd, at Ramsdale. Nightjar, May 24th, at 
Rainworth. I also saw a teal with six young ones, swimming about on the 
