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Blackbirds early in Oetober, but before the end of the month they Trad 

 all passed on. 



From the 1st to the 12th/13th of November migration on the east coast 

 assumed large proportions, records of large movements being received from 

 many stations between "Withernsea Light (Yorkshire) and the Kentish 

 Knock Light-vessel (Esses), and more particularly from Spurn Head Light, 

 where immense numbers were seen and killed almost every night between 

 the lst/2nd and the llth/12th. By the middle of the month the height 

 of the migration was over, but stragglers continued to arrive at Spurn 

 Head from the 17th/lSth till the end of the month. At various points 

 on the west coast between the Isle of Man and Lundy (North Devon) 

 an irregular movement took place lasting from the lst/2nd to the 

 18th/19th. It was marked by vast influxes which were most in evidence 

 at the following lights : — Carnarvon Bay Light-vessel on the lst/2nd, 

 North Light (Lundy Island) on the 2nd/3rd, South Stack Light (Anglesey) 

 and the Chicken Rock Light (Isle of Man) on the 3rd/4th, Chicken Rock 

 Light on the 5th/6th, South Bishop Light (Pembroke), South Stack 

 Light and Bardsey Light on the 14tk/15th, and Carnarvon Bay Light- 

 vessel and the Skerries Light (Anglesey) on the 15th/16th. After this 

 the main body of migrants seems to have passed on, but a few stragglers 

 were reported from some of the western lights towards the end of 

 November. With the exception of a passage-movement at the Eddy- 

 stone Light (Cornwall) on the 15th/16th, the only returns from the south 

 coast during the month were of small numbers at St. Catherine's Light 

 (Hampshire), the Eddystone Light, and Hanois Light (Channel Islands). 

 In Scotland small movements were recorded throughout November, and 

 numbers on one or two occasions, viz. : — at Inehkeith Light (Forth) on 

 the 4th, Tarbatuess Light (E. Boss-shire) and Auskerry Light (Orkney) 

 on the 6th, and at the Isle of May (Fife) on the 7th. 



During the tirst week in December a few stragglers were still passing 

 the Skerries and Bardsey Lights, and the Outer Dowsing Light-vessel 

 (Lincolnshire). 



THE RING-OUZEL (Turdus torquatus). 



The records of this species, consisting of single birds or small numbers, 

 are so disconnected that systematic treatment is impossible. A few 

 Ring-Ouzels, probably local birds, were noted near Great Gable (Cum- 

 berland) on the 9th and 18th of August, and on Skiddaw (Cumberland) 

 on the 9th of September. There is some evidence to show that this 

 species was on the move in small numbers during September. Flocks 

 were seen assembling in Danby Dale (Yorkshire) on the 10th ; a few odd 

 birds were observed in Renfrewshire, at the Chicken Rock Light (Isle 

 of Man), Lynton (Devonshire), Bishop Rock Light (Scilly Isles) and 

 Hanois Light (Channel Islands) in the middle of the month, and a move- 



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