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once enabled me to identify the bird. Together with one of 
the sailors_, I collected a number of examples and put them 
in the boat, but I did not go to the ship with them immedi- 
ately^ and when I asked for them on my return^ I was told, 
to my great annoyance, that they had all been made into a 
pie ! It was too late to get more, so I came away without 
any specimen after all. The weather was fine and clear, 
with light haze at times ; this the lighthouse-keepers said 
was the case when all the birds came. The wind was 
E.N.E., light, force 2 to 3 ; but I was told by one of the 
officers that, as a fact, the wind was variable during the 
night. 
Writing to one of our party, Mr. Eagle Clarke says : — 
"I am much obliged for your information about the big 
migration night at the Casquets ; it is most interesting 
and important, for about the same time great numbers of 
Whitethroats, Sedge- Warblers, and Willow- Warblers were 
killed at St. Catherine's Point and at the Needles.^^ 
Yours &c., 
Eaglan, Britonfeny. R. W. Llewellyn. 
23rd June, 1902. 
[In reference to this communication, we may say that it 
is hard to believe that a flock of Red-breasted Flycatchers 
can have occurred on migration at the Casquets. This bird 
is quite a South-east European species, and does not become 
reallv abundant until the Balkan Peninsula is reached. It 
is a pity that no specimens were preserved in order to settle 
the question, but our opinion is that the birds in question 
were probably Robins, which are of frequent occurrence on 
lighthouses. — Edd.] 
gjRS, — In the autumn of 1896 I purchased eight young 
Gouldian Finches in the grey and green nestling plumage, 
but was only successful in bringing through their first moult 
three of them, all of w^hich proved to belong to the black- 
faced variety, Poephila goiddice. Of these three, one died in 
1898 and a second in 1900, the remaining bird living in 
