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Oct. :20th/21.st. Withernsea Lt. (Yorkshire), several at miLlnig'ht. 



„ 23rd. Tiree (Argyll), flocks. 



„ 25th. Aberdeen, flocks. 



„ 26th. S. Yorkshire coast, one arrived. 



„ 26th/27th. Withernsea lit., several at midnight. 



„ 28th. Whitby Lt. (Yorkshire), three arrived at 3.30 p.m. 



„ 31st. Flannan Isles, about 100 arrived. 



Nov. 1st. Fair Isle, large flock. 



,1 2ud. Flannan Isles and Fair Isle, many more arrived. 



„ 6th/7th. Spm-n Head Lt. (Yorkshire), one or two at midnight. 



„ 13th, letb'l . 



, ,Q , } Ihanet, one or two passing each day. 



Dec. loth. South Bishop Lt. (Pembroke), a few seen on the 

 rock. 



THE STARLING [Stunms vulgaris). 



Single birds were killed at Chicken Rock Light (Isle of Man) and at 

 Winterton Light (Norfolk) on the 17th/18th and 22nd/23rd of August 

 respectively. On the 11th of September large flocks were noted at 

 Cromer going S.E., and large numbers were recorded at the Owers 

 Light- vessel (Sussex), while on the following night one was killed 

 at Spurn Head Light. On the 16th/17th, 17th/18th and 20th/21st a 

 few were recorded from St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight), probably 

 emigrants, while large flocks on passage were noted on the Isle of May 

 on the 26th of September. From about the 1st of October a large 

 migratory movement in a southerly direction was noted on the S. coast 

 of Yorkshire ; this movement, which was at its height from the 11th 

 to the 13th, continued until the end of the first week in November, 

 and on several nights birds were taken at Withernsea and Spurn 

 Head Lights (Yorkshire). This southerly movement was noted by day 

 at Cromer Light (Norfolk) on the 9th, and at Owers Light- vessel 

 (Sussex) on the 18th, 19th, 20th, 29th and 31st. Records of numbers 

 which must have belonged to a southerly migTation were also received 

 from Fair Isle Light (Shetland) on the lOth/llth of October, from the 

 Pentland Skerries (Orkney) and Isle of May (Fife) Lights on the 

 lGth/17th, from the Butt of Lewis Light (Outer Hebrides), Isle of 'May 

 Light, Tarbatness Light (Moray Firth), Lerwick (Shetland) and Fair Isle 

 on the 17th/lbth, and from Fair Isle and Flannan Isles Light (Outer 

 Hebrides) on the 18th/19th. Numbers Avere also noted on passage on 

 Coquet Island (Northumberland) from the 29th of September to the 

 10th of October. 



The immigration on the east coast commenced during the last four 

 days of September (the earliest record being from the Norfolk and Kent 

 coasts on the 26th and the Suffolk coast on the 27th), and continued 



