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NOTES 



ON 



MIGEATOEY MOVEMENTS 



DURING 



THE AUTUMN OF 1909. 



Day Migratiou is denoted tlius : September SOtli. 

 Night Migration is denoted thus : September 29th/30th. 



Aug, 



, 17th. 



V 



23rd. 



)J 



24tb. 



)) 



31st. 



Sept, 



. 20th. 



)j 



21st & 28th. 



Oct. 



1st. 



)? 



10th & 11th. 



)> 



21st. 



>> 



23rd. 





29th. 



THE MISTLE-THEUSH {Turdus viscioorus) 



Mnll, Argyll, forty passing S. 

 Staffordshire, large numbers arrived. 

 Devon, a small flock passing. 

 Staffordshire, numbers still present. 

 N. Oxfordshire, a flock seen. 

 21st&28th. Isle of May (Fife), one passing each day. 



N. Oxfordshire, still present in small flocks. 

 S. Yorkshire coast, a few flying south each day. 

 N. Oxfordshire, all gone. 

 S. Devon, three passing. 

 S. Devon, winter residents arrived. 

 Nov. 13th/14th. St. Catherine's Lt. (Isle of Wight), a few. 



THE SONG-THRUSII {Turdus musicus). 



The earliest movement on the east coast was noted at Spurn Head Light 

 on the night of August the 26th/27tli, but it was not until a fortnight 

 later that any further records were received, when on the lith of 

 September a large flock was observed flying S.E. at Cromer. A week 

 later the immigration of Continental Song-Thrushes set in in earnest, 

 beiuo- observed for the first time on the south coast of Yorkshire on the 

 18th, where subsequent arrivals took place on the 24lh/25th, 26th, 28tli 

 and 30th, while large numbers arrived on the Isle of May (Fife) on the 

 28th and small numbers on tlie north coast of Norlbllc on tlie 22nd and 

 the 23rd/21th. 



