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Wight). On the 25th an arrival was noted in the Isle of May (Fife), 

 and during the last half of the month and the first week of October 

 there were a few records from several east coast of England lights. At 

 Gorton Light- vessel (Sufiblk) flocks were noted flying W.S.W. with 

 a N.W. wind and W.N.W. with a S.W. wind. 



From the end of the first week in October up to the 4th of November, 

 flocks were noted arriving nearly every day from the E. or E.S.E. at 

 Lowestoft (Suffolk), there being also several records of flocks seen some 

 distance out off the Norfolk or Suffolk coasts making for land ; it is 

 interesting also to note that from the 17th to the 23rd of October flocks 

 were seen going W. by vessels 30 miles off" Ijmuiden (Holland). 

 All through October there were numerous records from the east 

 coast lights on every night, while records of the day-migration show 

 that the flocks were travelling to points between N.W. and S.W. 

 From the west coast there were no records until the 7th of October, and 

 during the first three weeks of the month there were only notices 

 of small numbers from lights situated between Morecambe Bay and the 

 Bristol Channel. During the last week of the month the number of 

 records from the west coast greatly increased. From the south coast 

 lights the first record was received from Hanois (Guernsey) on the 

 5th/6th (many), but there were few notes from this region until 

 about the 21st, when records from one or more lights between the 

 Scilly Isles and Kent were received on every night until the end of the 

 month. About mid-October the first migratory flocks were noted in 

 South Devon. 



Up to about the middle of November fewer flocks were arriving 

 on the east coast, and numbers were noted at the Bell Rock and 

 Pentland Skerries Lights on the 13th and 14th ; from the 22nd to 

 the end of the month there were several records every night from 

 west coast lights and practically none from the east coast. The last 

 record was received from Selker Light-vessel (Lancashire) on the 

 6th/6th of December. 



THE JAY {GaiTulus glandarius). 



Amongst the less regular autumn migrants for which the season of 

 1910 was x'emarkable, the present species was included. Jays were 

 reported as increasing greatly in numbers in Hampshire at the beginning 

 of September, but there was no evidence to indicate from whence they 

 came. The first indication of a real migration came from Thanet (E. 

 Kent), where the British race is practically non-existent ; on the morning 

 of the 28th of September about twenty Magpies were seen high up 

 E^rriving from the N.N.E., and these were followed immediately afterwards 

 by three Jays. From the 6th to the 9th of October they were noted as 

 tmusually plentiful in W. Kent, and on the 16tli one of undoubted 



