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EAST COAST OF ENGLAND. 



Printed schedules and letters of instruction were forwarded 

 to thirty-seven lighthouses and light-vessels on the East 

 Coast of England, and two stations in the Channel Islands, 

 and returns have been received from twenty-five, against thirty 

 in 1882. 



Independent reports have also been received from Heligoland, 

 and certain land stations along the East Coast, namely, Seaton- 

 Carew, Kedcar, Flamborough, Spurn, North-East Lincolnshire, 

 Wells (on the Norfolk coast), Northrepps, Great Yarmouth, and 

 the coast of Essex. Making altogether a total of thirty-five 

 reporting stations, against thirty-seven in 1882. 



Our best thanks are due to H. Gatke, T. H. Nelson, C. Donald- 

 Thompson, Matthew Bailey, William Eagle Clarke, J. H. Gurney, 

 jun., M. Vaughan, of Haileybury College, Arthur Patterson, and 

 Colonel Russell, for their hearty co-operation and assistance, as 

 well as to the numerous kind and painstaking observers at the 

 lighthouses and light-vessels, whose names are given in the list 

 of stations. Special thanks are due to Mr. Gurney for having 

 inaugurated along the Norfolk coast a parallel system of enquiry, 

 which for a first trial has worked well. In all doubtful cases of 

 identity, where birds are killed against the lanterns, a wing is 

 cut off, and with a label of the date attached these have been 

 forwarded in batches to Mr. Gurney for identification, and with 

 satisfactory results. We cannot too strongly urge upon our 

 observers the advantages of this system, and advise them to 

 adopt it ; nothing is easier than to cut off a wing from each 

 victim on any given night, wrap them in paper, or tie them 

 together, with the dates attached, or numbered on the cover, and 

 send them in one parcel by post either to myself or to Mr. Gurney, 

 for identification. It is intended that instructions for doing this 

 will be given in the next issue of schedules in the spring of this 

 year. 



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