NOTES AND QUERIES. 431 
Bullfinch = Hoops from Hitpps (Nth. Devon). 
Titlark = Meadow Pipit, provincial ‘‘ Ground-lark.” 
Common Heron = hougie-crane (South Pembrokeshire). 
Corncrake = Bean-cracker (Sth. Pembrokeshire). 
Guillemot = Hligney (Sth. Pembrokeshire). 
‘Fulmar, Molly-mawk, or Mollemoke is the term applied by 
Bewick to the Fulmar Petrel; may also be called ‘ Whalebirds,’ from 
their constant attendance on the Whale.’’—H. B. Boorx (Ben Rhyd- 
ding, Yorkshire). 
Migration of Small Birds in Co. Sligo. — Our home-bred small 
birds, as usual, disappeared this autumn. By Aug. 31st very few 
were about, and by the middle of September not a Chaffinch, Green- 
finch, or Yellowhammer was to be seen in their usual haunts, and 
neither Blackbirds or Thrushes were to be seen anywhere in this 
locality by that date. However, on Oct. 8th and 9th, I was fortunate 
in witnessing several flights of small birds, probably Chaffinches 
because several exhibited white on their wings, and their mode of 
flight was quite similar to that of those birds. About eight o’clock 
on the morning of the 8th a flock of fifty birds passed over the lawn 
close by the house here. They kept low, almost tcé1ching the tree- 
tops as they flew steadily inland to the south-east, none remaining to 
rest. On the morning of the 9th, as I was walking across one of 
my fields near the estuary, between eight and nine o’clock, a flock of 
about fifty birds flew past me, and, as the wind was blowing freshly 
from the §.8.E., they kept low over the trees, flying steadily inland 
to the south-east. A short time afterwards another flock of twenty 
or twenty-five birds passed, and in less than a quarter of an hour 
two more of about the same number passed over, none pausing to rest 
on trees or fields, but all pursuing their course steadily to the south- 
east. Only once before have I seen a similar movement of small 
birds, also in October. I was looking at the turnips in one of my 
fields when I was surprised at seeing a large flock of probably a 
hundred birds flying low against a strong head-wind to the south- 
east; they flew so low that I thought they were going to pitch on 
the field, but as far as I could see them they never paused in their 
course. About half an hour afterwards I saw another flock, but not 
so large, passing also in the same direction. From these occurrences 
I think we may safely infer that on the autumn migration these foreign- 
bred birds have a regular line of flight across this district of country, 
and are only seen when strong head-winds cause them to fly low. 
Notwithstanding the passage of these large numbers, they do not 
