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THE HOODED CEOW {Corvus comix). 



Two young birds were reported from Sidestrand (Norfolk) on the 16th 

 of July. Some arrived at the Flannan Isles (Outer Hebrides) on the 

 22nd of September and large numbers at Fair Isle (Shetland) on the 3rd 

 of October. The tirst birds on passage on the east coast were reported 

 from Norfolk on the 1st of October and some arrived from the east on 

 the S.E. Suffolk coast on the following day. The first bird was seen in 

 Staffordshire on the 3}-d, in Warwickshire on the 5th, in Cheshire on the 

 6th, in Lincolnshire on the 9th, in Surrey on the 22nd and in Hertfordshire 

 on the 23rd. From the 9th of October onwards flocks were noticed at 

 intervals on the coasts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suflblk, 

 coming in from some easterly direction, while many light-stations off 

 these coasts also recorded movements : at the Kentish Knock Light- 

 vessel (45 miles E. by N. from the mouth of the Thames) the direction 

 of flight was generally to the N.W. This immigration on the east coast 

 lasted well into November, the last record being on the 24th. 



Hooded Crows were seen flying S.W. on the Northumberland coast 

 on the 27th of October and on the 1st of November. Ofl' Suffolk they 

 were coasting south on the 18th, 19th, 24th and 26th of October, while 

 on the 1st of December an unusual coasting-movement to the west was 

 seen on the Sussex coast. 



Further arrivals in Scotland were noted at the Isle of May, the Bass 

 Eock (Forth) and the Peutland Skerries (Orkney) on the 20th of 

 October. 



THE EOOK {Corvus frvgilegus). 



The first immigrants from the east were noted on the S.E. coast of 

 Suffolk on the 11th of September and these were followed by others on 

 the 28th, It was, however, not until the first week in October that 

 arrivals became at all general, but from that date until the middle of 

 November they were noted on most days on the Suflblk coast, and 

 records of " Crows " at many of the light-stations between the Humber 

 and the Thames during the same period no doubt refer in part to this 

 species. At the Shipwash Light-vessel (Suffolk) the direction of flight 

 was towards the N.W. or W.N.W. An increase was noted in Sussex on 

 the 2od of October, in N.W. Suffolk on the 5th aiid in Kent on the 17th 

 and 18th, while on the 16th large numbers were seen flying S.S.W. over 

 Thanet (E. Kent). Many Eooks passed the Chicken Eock Light (Isle of 

 Man) on the 15th of October, and on the 16th,/17th single birds were talien 

 at the South Goodwin Light-vessel (Kent) and at Hanoi's Liglit 

 (Guernsey). Flocks arrived in Tiree (Argyll) on the 22nd of October 

 and the 11th of November, and between the 30th of October and the 



