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irregular, and very poor both in numbers and species—the 
Harriers, multitudes of which generally visit the plains of 
Lower Austria in September, being almost entirely absent, 
and I noted the first Rough-legged Buzzard on October 20th, 
that is fourteen days earlier than in previous years ; but from 
that day did not see another of these birds, which are usually 
so common, until the end of November, when I remarked three 
of them flying one evening to their roosting-places in the auen. _ 
It was interesting to see what multitudes of Fieldfares 
there were this autumn. On October 30th I saw hundreds 
on the meadows and clearings of the Wiener Wald some 
distance above Baden; and I met with much larger flocks, 
which must have contained thousands of them, in the auen 
of the Danube at Orth on Oetober 6th and 7th, while I have 
since observed them until quite recently both in the Wiener 
Wald and the plains, but never in such large numbers. 
The appearance of the Nutcrackers and their spread into 
districts which they usually seldom or never visit was very 
remarkable. Between September 15th and 18th I observed a 
great many of these birds in the wooded hills of Pohorella and 
Murany, in the county of Gémér, and at the end of September 
and the beginning of October I also saw them at various 
localities in the north of Styria, both high up in the moun- 
tains and quite low down in the valleys, while in the middle 
of October I found them very abundant in the woods among 
the fields and the low-lying copses of the hilly ground in the 
county of Maros-Torda in Transylvania. At the end of Octo- 
ber several were observed above Baden ; on the 21st a keeper 
killed one in the Laxenburg park ; the following day I shot 
a couple of handsome old birds in the outlying woods of the 
Wiener Wald near Huttendorf; and on the morning of No- 
vember 18th, which was cold and misty, I saw one sitting on 
an acacia near the railway station in Bruck on the Leitha. This 
was the first time in the course of the past few years that I 
