Oct. 



2nd. 



Nov. 



5th. 



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27tli. 



» 



SOth, 



Dec. 



2nd. 



24G 



TFIE COMMON SCOTER {(Edemia nigra). 



A flock of Common Scoters was first seen off the Isle of May (Fife) on 

 the 27th of September, forty were observed flyinp: south past the S.E. coast 

 of Yorkshire on October the 10th, and a few arrived at the reservoirs in 

 N. Leicestershire on the loth of November. 



THE VELVET SCOTER {(Edemia fusca). 



Ten birds of this species were noted with the Common Scoters off the 

 S.E. coast of Yorkshire on October the 10th, while a single bird was seen 

 there on the 11th, three on the 22nd, and six on the 23rd were flying 

 south. 



THE WOOD-PIGEON {ColumbajMlumbus). 



W. coast of Dorset, increase. 



N.W. coast of Norfolk, 150 arrived fi-om over the sea 



between 7 and 8 a.m. 

 New Forest district, Hampshire, first large flock seen. 

 New Forest district, a second large flock seen. 

 Wiltshire, large flocks arrived and remained. 



THE STOCK-DOVE {Columba cenas). 

 Oct. 22nd. New Forest district, Hampshire, large flocks seen. 



THE TURTLE-DOVE {Turtur communis). 



Turtle-Doves began to move south during the third week in August, 

 the last pair being seen in Yorkshire ou the 22nd, while thej' were passing 

 in flocks through mid-Suffolk between the 23rd and the end of the month. 

 As early as the 2Uth the local residents took their departure from the 

 Hampshire coast, the Sussex birds left on the 27th, and a considerable 

 number left west Kent at the end of the mouth ; further west, however, 

 in Wiltshire, the resident birds appear to have remained until at least the 

 middle of September. On the 24th of August a number of migrants 

 arrived from the north-west on the Hampshire coast, whence they passed 

 south four days later, the last one being seen on the 8th of September. 

 On the 2nd of that month the last bird was seen in N. Cheshire, but the 

 species was still plentiful in Staflbrdshire and Shropshire until the loth, 

 though all had left by the following day. On the 4th of September a 

 flock was seen flying high to the south-west in mid-Suftblk, while a 

 further decrease was recorded in W. Kent, and again on the 7th. Ou the 

 9th a flock of 20 (the last) was seen flying south in W. Kent, in E. Kent 

 single migrants were noticed passing on the 10th, 21»t, 22nd and 23rd, 



