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very strong breeze, and showers; wind W.N.W. to S.W.” Again 
at same station (Mull of Galloway) flocks continued passing all 
day; wind S.E., fresh, fog, and rain, flying in same direction. 
On 8th and 9th, wind §., gale; 10th, wind W., strong. Ina 
later note Mr. M‘Gill believes “that the Solan Geese strike the 
land first at Cape Wrath,” and that the Geese which pass it are — 
from Suliskerry. 
On the west coast of Scotland, also, many observers make 
particular mention of the scarcity of autumnal migrants in 1879. 
At several principal and important stations this scarcity is of 
course most remarked upon, such as Butt of Lewis, Monach 
Island, Island Glass, Skerryvore, and Dhuheartach. During long 
experience at these and other stations, the several observers do 
not remember such great scarcity of birds during the autumn 
migration. From other observers’ remarks it would appear that 
several of the west coast stations are not suitable for observations 
being made, from their land-locked situations or other local 
influences, such as Kyleakin, Sound of Mull, Corran Ferry, and 
others. 
Many birds are killed at the lanterns of the more isolated 
lighthouses and are blown into the sea. Thus, in 1877, at 
Skerryvore, in the month of October, the number of birds killed 
was six hundred, chiefly the Common and “ Mountain Thrush” 
(Ring Ouzel), but including also Blackbirds, Snipes, Larks, and 
one Wild Duck. The observer, Mr. W. Crow, was of opinion 
that about two hundred more were killed and blown into the sea. 
They came every night from the Ist to the 6th, about 8 p.m, 
and went away at daylight. “I would estimate,” he says, “ the 
number about the light on each of the above nights to be about 
a thousand.” The direction of the wind was from §8.8.E. to &., 
with haze; and no migration of birds was observed during the 
day. On Dhuheartach lighthouse rock, “two Hawks are seen 
every morning” while the migration lasts, which come to prey 
upon the small birds resting on the rock. A considerable flight of 
migrants took place about Oct. 7th, as upon the east coast. 
The direction of the flight of migrants appears to be from 
east to west at the north coast stations, but from N.W. and 
N.N.W. to S.W. or S.S.W. at the stations farther south; and 
this is borne out by previous observations in former years by my 
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