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nearly as possible, and not, like land birds and waders, from east to 
west. The data we have are not, perhaps, in their present unarranged and 
perfect state, sufficient to enable us to lay this down as a law of autumnal 
migration. My object is to draw attention to prominent facts and 
coincidences such as are given above, and thus more fully to direct attention 
to phenomena of migration. I would take the opportunity of soliciting aid 
from Scottish observers, as one of a committee lately appointed to investigate 
the phenomena of migration of birds and to collect statistics. Notes from 
England should be sent to Prof. Newton, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 
and to John Cordeaux, Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire.—J. A. Harvir 
Brown (Dunipace House, Larbert, N.B.) 
Micration oN THE East Coast of ENGLAND IN 1HE AUTUMN OF 
1880.—As a sequel to Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown’s remarks, I may observe 
that the arrival of these rare wanderers on our coast in September was 
probably caused by the strong N. and N.E. winds blowing during the third 
week in September. On Heligoland it is these winds which bring the 
birds down from N.E. Europe and the Asiatic tundras; with westerly or 
south-westerly winds blowing, no birds turn up for days together. From 
some cause or other, many of our immigrants arrived on the east coast 
much before they were due. Thus Knots were seen in large flocks in the 
Humber on August 16th. An old male Knot in summer plumage was 
killed against the telegraph-wire on Kilnsea, near Spurn, on July 24th. 
A large flock of Fieldfares, as I hear on the best authority, were seen 
in Norfolk on September 9th, and Golden-crested Wrens at Spurn on 
September 15th, their average time of arrival being about October 12th, 
A peculiarity of the season has been the immense number of Wheatears 
and Redstarts on the coast from Flamborough to Yarmouth during the last 
week in August and first week in September, full particulars of which will 
I hope appear in the next report on migration.—Joun CorpEAux (Great 
Cotes, Ulceby). 
Avocer 1x Soura Drvon.—Some forty years since a bird of this 
species was shot in the Kingsbridge Estuary, of which I became possessed. 
Since then I have neither seen nor heard of one occurring in this district 
until the 2nd of the present month (October), when a person shooting on 
the estuary saw three on the mud. He was induced to follow them up, and 
got a shot, which resulted in his killing one and wounding another; the 
former was brought to my brother, Mr. R. P. Nicholls, who purchased it, 
and on the following day the wounded bird was picked up dead, and also 
came into our possession. On dissection the larger specimen proved to be a 
male; its weight, 103 ounces; length, 17 inches; breadth, 30 inches. 
The other, a female, weighed 9 ounces; length, 153 inches; breadth, 
29 inches. Mr. E. Elliot, a young and promising ornithologist, being 
