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Light (Dorset), St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) and Hanois Light 

 (Guerusey). On the 9th a few were observed in the south and east 

 (Suffolk, Surrey, Kent, Isle of Wight) and by the 11th arrivals, 

 although small in numbers, had become general and were noted from 

 Northumberland, Westmoreland, Denbigh, Warwick, Kent and Hamp- 

 shire. From the 12th onwards arrivals increased daily. According to 

 the light-records, there was a small influx on the 14th, when Redwings 

 were noted in numbers at several of the eastern and southern stations ; 

 this movement was, however, possibly more apparent than real and due 

 to local weather-conditions at the lights, since the inland records showed 

 a steady migration during the whole of the succeeding week. From the 

 21st to the end of the month (October) migration seems to have been at 

 its height, being observed on every night at stations on all parts of the 

 west and south coasts. The 28th/29th may be taken as a typical night, 

 when movements were simultaneously noticed at Skerries (Anglesey), 

 Chicken Rock (Isle of Man), Bardsey (Carnarvon), Helwick (Bristol 

 Channel), Longships (Cornwall), St. Catherine's (Isle of Wight) and 

 Dungeness (Kent). 



Records from the eastern lights were very scanty, viz. Spurn Head 

 on the 24th and Whitby on the 31st ; but this is again probably to be 

 accounted for by local weather-conditions, for inland records showed that 

 Redwings were arriving in Yorkshire and Suffolk on the 22nd and 

 23rd, while between the 28 th and 30th immigrations were noticed in 

 Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Leicester and Sussex. At the end 

 of October migration was practically over, but during November a few 

 small movements took place, most of which wei'e noticed both at the 

 lights and by inland observers. The first of these was recorded on the 

 3rd, and was noticed in Suffolk and Staffordshire, while on the 7th/8th 

 another was noted at the Welsh Skerries and in Norfolk, pointing 

 perhaps to an overland migration due west. Others were recorded on 

 the 10th in Kent and Suffolk and on the 12th and 15th in Devonshire. 

 The last movement observed was entirely in the west and lasted from the 

 22nd to the 26th, though the number of birds does not appear to have 

 been very great. 



Broadly speaking, the records appear to show that the main movement 

 passed south during the latter half of October, that in November there 

 was an east to v^est movement, and that towards the end of November 

 the birds congregating in the western counties had moved south. 



THE FIELDFARE {Turdus pilaris). 



A. few stragglers of this species came over during the latter half of 

 September and were noted on the 18th at Spurn Head (Yorkshire). 

 On the 25th and 26th a small immigration reached Scotland and was 



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