MIGRATION OF BIRDS ON THE N.E. COAST. _ 7 
In a former notice (Zool. 2nd ser, 2228) I said that I believed it had 
been observed in the extreme south of Sweden. I now think that 
I was misinformed on this point, and certain it is that this form of 
Redpoll has not yet been found to breed in Scandinavia. What 
else is known of its history I have done my best to trace in the 
account given in the revised edition of Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds’ 
(ii. pp. 146—152). 
I will here abstain from any generalizations from the facts I have 
just stated, and will only call the attention of my readers to the 
remarkable results at which my lamented friend Mr. John Wolley 
arrived with regard to the curious seasonal growth of the bill in 
L. linaria, as observed by him more than twenty years ago, and 
recently set forth by me in my history of that bird above referred to. 
Their truth was confirmed by the instinctive deduction of the late 
Dr. Gloger, to whose happy knack of solving an ornithological 
difficulty I the more readily bear witness since it was once my fate 
to confront and refute him on another matter. I will, in conclusion, 
point out that Wolley’s experience of Lapland and knowledge of 
its birds has of late frequently met with scant appreciation. I have 
found his testimony set at no higher rate than that of another 
Englishman who having lived ten years in Sweden knew not the 
confines of the country, and but once, and that but for a single 
summer, visited one district in Lapland. 
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ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS ON THE N.E. COAST OF 
ENGLAND IN. THE AUTUMN OF 1876. 
By Joun CorDEAUX. 
THE following notes, although not so complete as I could 
have wished them to be, refer more especially to the arrival of 
autumn migrants on that part of the north-east coast lying between 
the Spurn Point and the estuary of the Tees during the fall of 
1876. For many of them I am indebted to the letters of 
correspondents, some of whom, although not perhaps practical 
ornithologists, have yet a very considerable knowledge of our 
common autumn visitants, a knowledge acquired under the peculiar 
circumstances of their life, which is a very watchful and observant 
one,—the guardianship and care of lighthouses overlooking the 
