132 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



August. 



23rd. — W., 4. Three Black-tailed Godwits identified on Brey- 

 do-n Broad by Mr. Jary, and many other birds of that class. 



25th. — E., 5, cloudy. On the night of the 25th a large 

 number of birds, consisting of Redshanks, Binged Plovers, Grey 

 Plovers, Lapwings, and Curlew (to judge from their notes), were 

 arrested on their nocturnal migration by the bright glow from 

 the street-lamps of Norwich, and their varied cries were listened 

 to from soon after 9 p.m. until past midnight, and may have 

 gone on until the lights were extinguished. At the same time 

 similar cries, probably intended to keep the birds together, were 

 heard in the darkness over the towns of Yarmouth (A. Patter- 

 son), Felixstowe (W. Clarke), Bury St. Edmunds (H. Buxton), 

 Cambridge (Sir L. Jones), and at Beverley (F. Boyes) and Redcar 

 (T. H. Nelson), in Yorkshire. The night was rough and very 

 dark, but in spite of that Mr. Buxton could at intervals plainly 

 see large flocks high in air over Bury, which appeared to be pro- 

 ceeding west, but occasionally dashed down as if attracted by the 

 electric arc-lights in the streets (cf. 'Field,' 2, ix. 1905). The 

 wind had risen that evening to force 5, and it may be mentioned 

 that at 6 p.m. the temperature was 67°, 51° for Lowestoft, and 

 65° for South Lincolnshire. There was a fall of the barometer 

 during the night, and the following morning, when the migrants 

 were presumably winging their way over the English Channel, 

 it was still going down, having at 8 a.m. the coast of Wales for 

 its centre of depression. The circumstance of the birds being 

 heard simultaneously at seven towns, or eight — for Mr. Caton 

 Haigh believes Grimsby may be added — shows the extent of the 

 migration, and that it all lay within the area of depression. 



27th. — The gamekeeper at Northrepps disturbed a Honey 

 Buzzard engaged in clearing out a wasps' nest. He refrained 

 from putting down a trap, and the hungry bird, which may 

 have just landed, soon came back, and ate the rest of the grubs. 

 As its demise was not reported it probably escaped, and had pro- 

 bably been brought by easterly gale of the day before. Another, 

 less fortunate, was subsequently trapped at Snettisham (R. 

 Clarke). 



29th.— Hobby at Thetford (W. Clarke). 



