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they visit for the berries every year (cf. Zool. 1903, p. 134). 
Several others seen along our coast about this time, as well as 
by Mr. Caton Haigh in Lincolnshire. 
OcTOBER. 
9th.—-S.K. 4 (rising in the evening). October was on the 
whole a fine month, with winds light in force except for the gale 
onthe 9th and 10th. It must have been impelled by this wind 
that a young Purple Heron} crossed the sea, and, attracted by 
the lights of Lowestoft, settled in the populous suburb of Kirkley, 
where it was made captive by a tram-conductor, and taken to 
the house of Mr. H. Bunn, one of whose customers kept it alive 
for six weeks, and it was then killed and stuffed. It is in the 
red plumage which led to its being mistaken at first for a 
Bittern. 
10th.—§S.S.E. 6. News was brought to Mr. Pashley by 
those who had been down to the shore that the bushes of 
scrubby saltwort along the coast were full of the usual small 
migrants, and at least one observer identified a Black Redstart. 
Perhaps there was a movement of Black Redstarts on the Con- 
tinent, for between this date and the 26th Mr. Pashley knew for 
certain of eight of these birds coming to his portion of the coast, 
and Mr. Lowne, of Yarmouth, had another, which indicates 
rather a strong movement for the Hast Coast. On the evening 
of the 9th the wind was 8.E. 6, which it continued to be through- 
out the 10th, rising to a high gale, force 7, in the evening. The 
first Bluethroat was seen yesterday. 
11th.— [On the night of the 11th a great migratory move- 
ment must have been in progress on the north coast of Denmark, 
no fewer than a thousand birds being taken at the Skaw Light- 
house (¢f. ‘ Field’ of Nov. 2nd, 1907). No list of the species has 
yet been published, but Mr. Winge, of Copenhagen, writes me 
that there was neither a Black Redstart nor a Richard’s Pipit 
among them. The wind at the Skaw was W.S.W. 4, but in the 
morning it had been E.} 
12th.—During the recent S.E. gale a little flock of Richard’s 
Pipits would seem to have been blown to the coast of Norfolk. 
On the 12th, the day that the first was seen, the Rev. M. C. 
Bird speaks of “ trips” of Larks passing, and both they and the 
