PEEFACE. 



The twenty-sixth volume of the British Ornitholopists' 

 Club contains the Report of our Migration Committee on 

 the movements in England and Wales of a number of 

 common migratory species during the autumn of 1908 and 

 the spring and early summer of 1909. The records for the 

 autumn of 1908 were exceptionally numerous and have been 

 more fully dealt with than in former years. The present 

 Report differs from those previously issued in containing 

 special chapters giving a detailed account of the observations 

 which have been made and forwarded from the various 

 lighthouses and light-vessels, not only during the autumn 

 of 1908, but in the spring of 1909. 



The Members of our Migration Committee are jointly 

 responsible for the following Report. 



(Signed) W. R. OGILYIE-GRANT, 



J^ditor, 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 London, S.W. 



•30th September, 1910. 



