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there is a considerable amount of evidence to show thnt many home- 

 bred birds left South Devon and Kent during' September. 



The numbers observed at the east coast lights, Norfolk and Liucoln, 

 increased during October, the davs on which they were noticed being the 

 7th, 9th, 10th, 17th, 20th, and 26th. From the 10th to the 17th they 

 were reported to be numerous as immigrants on the North Lincolnshire 

 coast, while on the 26th flocks were noted in South-east Yorkshire, 

 and migrants were seen almost daily passing through Kent after October 

 the 21st. 



With the exception of a few on November the 17th at Orford Lt. 

 (Suffolk), no further migrants were reported from the east coast lights. 



A few birds noted at Dungeness Lt. (Kent) on October the 7th/8th, 

 lOth/llth, and 27th/28th were probably emigrants. 



Emigrants were noted at the Bishop Rock Lt. on October the 28th and 

 29th, but apparently the heaviest emigration occurred during the first 

 week of November, when many were observed nearly every night at 

 Dungeness, St. Catherine's, Hanois (Channel Islands), and Bishop Rock 

 Lights. Further movements were noted on November the 16th/17th at 

 Hanois, on 25th/26th at St. Catherine's, and on December the lst/2nd at 

 the latter Light and at Dungeness. 



Migrants at Hanois and St. Catherine's Lights during the last few 

 days of December and the first few days of January were probably 

 weather-migrants, as also were the birds observed at Hartland Point 

 (Devon) on January the 11th and 12th. 



THE REDWING {Turdus iliacus). 



During the first week of October the first few birds were noted in 

 Yorkshire, Cheshire, Shropshire and Leicestershire, while flocks passing 

 at night were noted in Yorkshire, and numbers were recorded from the 

 north coast of Norfolk. On the 5th/ 6th a fair number were recorded 

 from the Lenian and Ower Light (Norfolk), but it was uncertain whether 

 these were immigrants direct from the east or whether they were 

 u coasting-birds." 



The first large passage of birds occurred on October the 9th. On that 

 day flocks were observed flying south in Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derby 

 and Kent, while birds taken at the Galloper Lt.-v. (Kent) probably 

 formed a part of this southward movement. As it passed through those 

 counties, this migratory movement seems to have sparsely populated 

 them. On the 10th the arrival of the first flocks was noted in the 

 north of Lincolnshire, and on the 12th some were again noted on 

 migration in Staffordshire. 



On the 17th and 18th another movement took place on the north coast 

 of Lincolnshire, and on the 19th numbers were noted in Surrey and 

 Lancashire for the first time. 



