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recorded from the Isle of May (Fife) and the Clyde area, while on the 

 nights of the 26th and 29th others were observed at Cromer Light 

 (Norfolk). From that date until the 18th of October Fieldfares were 

 not recorded with the exception of one or two stragglers in isolated 

 districts, but from the 18th of October to the end of the month they began 

 to be noted in numbers throughout the country. Although the first 

 records come from the south (Wiltshire) the movement must have been 

 general, for on the 20tli birds were seen at places as far distant as Cum- 

 berland, Leicester and Suffolk. During the remainder of the month the 

 records became daily more numerous as the numbers increased. The 

 passage was not noted at the lights, however, until the 24th, while it 

 reached its height on the 28th and 29th, greater numbers being recorded 

 from the western lights, although the movement was evidently general in 

 the east as well as in the west. By November the bullv of the birds had 

 arrived, and none were, recorded from the lights during the whole of that 

 month, with the exception of a few at Bardsey (Carnarvon) and at the 

 Smalls and South Bishop Lights (Pembroke) on the 2-5th and 26th. In- 

 land observations, however, indicated three small movements during the 

 month ; the first in Hampshire and Sussex on the 5th, the second in 

 Hampshire and Cheshire on the 9th and 10th, and the third and largest 

 between the 14th and 19th. This was first noted in Cheshire on the 

 14th, where the numbers had largely increased by the 15th. On the 

 following day the birds had all left Cheshire, but numbers were recorded 

 in Hampshire and Suffolk. A further increase was noted in Cheshire, 

 Leicester and Denbigh on the 18th and 19th. On the 22nd and 24th a 

 few were recorded from Cheshire and Denbigh, and it was probably some 

 of these birds that struck the western lights on their way south the 

 following day. 



THE BLACKBIRD (Ttirdus menila). 



The migrations of this species extend apparently over a longer period 

 than those of our other native Thrushes. During the last week of August 

 an observer in Staffordshire reported tliat they were collecting in small 

 numbers and had moved on by the 31st. Although there was no very 

 large movement during September, the records showed that this species 

 was continually on the move. On the 7th there was a decided increase 

 in Kent, the birds having passed on by the following day. Between the 

 12th and 17th another small movement was noticed in Staffordshire and 

 Norfolk. On the 22nd another party arrived in north Sufiblk, but 

 passed on the following day ; on the 25th others were noted on passage 

 at the Isle of Man and on the 26th at Spurn Head. 



Between the 6th and 9th of October the first passage of any numbers 

 took place. On the 6th and 7th Blackbirds were recorded from Chicken 

 Rock Light (Isle of Man), Bardsey Light (Carnarvon), Dudgeon Light- 



