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the east on the 1st of November. Large uumbers were seen arriving 

 ou the Suffolk coast on the 15th of November. 



It was impossible to say how late the southward coastiug movement 

 continued, as the evidence was insufficient, but birds noted at tlie 

 Eddjstone Light (Cornwall) and at St. Catherine's Light on the 2nd/3rd 

 of November, also at the Bishop Eock Light on the 4th/5th, were 

 probably emigrants, for on the 3rd some were seen going south past the 

 Owers Light-vessel. On the 6th/6th this species was again noted at 

 the Eddystone, Bishop Rock and South Bishop Lights, on the 6th/7th 

 at Bull Point Light (N. Devon) and in large numbers at the Eddystone 

 both on that and the two following nights. On the 9th/10th some were 

 recorded at the Longships Light (Cornwall), on the 13th/14th at Bardsey, 

 Chicken Rock and St. Catherine's Lights, and on the following night at 

 the Owers Light-vessel. On the 14th and 15th of November numbers 

 were noted moving south in a snow-storm near Aberdeen. 



Except for large numbers noted in Oxfordshire on the 3rd of December 

 there is no further record of migration until the lOth/llth, on which 

 night a few were taken at the Spurn Head and South Bishop Lights, 

 and on the following night at the N. Goodwin Light-vessel (Kent), 

 while on the 12th/13th this species was again noticed in some numbers 

 at the Eddystone, South Bishop and St. Catherine's Lights. 



THE SHORE-LARK {Otocorys alpestris). 



Two Shore-Larks arrived on the Isle of May (Fife) on the 13th of 

 October and single birds were seen there ou the 14th and 16th. On 

 the 11th and 22nd of November several were seen ou the S.E. coast 

 of Suffolk. 



THE SWIFT (Ci/2Jselus apus). 



Swifts began to emigrate about the middle of July; they were congre- 

 gating in Berkshire on the loth, and many of the resident birds of that 

 county had left on the 22nd. Large numbers were observed flying east 

 in Somerset in company with Swallows and House-Martins on the 18th, 

 21st and 23rd. Between the 23rd of July and the 4th of August the 

 greater part of the local Swifts had left Denbigh and Staffordshire, but 

 numbers of passing birds were noted in those counties as well as in Berk- 

 shire, where many were observed going south and west on the 31st of 

 July. 



Throughout the month of August there was a strong emigratory move- 

 ment : one was taken at the Mull of Galloway Light on the 11th, and by 

 the middle of the month a marked decrease in nuiubers was noted in the 

 counties of Cumberland, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, 

 Radnor, Gloucester, Warwick, Suffolk, Oxford, Middlesex, Berkshire, 



