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NOTES 



ON 



MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS 



DURING 



THE AUTUMN OF 1907. 



Day Migration is denoted thus : September 80th. 

 Night Migration is denoted thus: September 29th/30th. 



THE MISTLE-THEUSH (Turdus viscivorus). 



During the first week in September there seems to have been a 

 migratory movement in N.E. Kent, but nothing further was noted 

 until the last week of October, when an immigration took place on 

 the North Lincolnshire coast, and on the 26th many Mistle-Thrushes 

 arrived in Yorkshire in company with Blackbirds and Thrushes. On 

 November the 5th/6th this species was taken at St. Catherine's Lt. 

 (Isle of Wight) during a large migration of the Thrush family. 



THE SONG-THRUSH (Turdus musicus). 



With the exception of a few birds taken at the Eddystone Lt. 

 (Cornwall) on July the 26th, no migratory movement was noticed until 

 nearly the end of September. On September the 26th a large increase 

 of migratory Thrushes was noted in Cheshire and Kent, and on the 27th 

 a few were seen at the Inner Dousing Lt.-v., Lincolnshire. 



On tho 20th/21st of the above month a few were taken at St. Cathe- 

 rine's Lt. (Isle of Wight), many on the 28th /29th, 29th/30th, and a few 

 from September tho 30th to October the 1st, and October the 4th to 

 the 8th. A few were noted on the 27th/28th and 29th/30th at the 

 Eddystone Lt., and on nearly every night after the 24th at the Bishop 

 Bock Lt. (Lies of Stilly). All these were probably emigrants, and 



