50 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



** flock of fifty to sixty off island." On Oct. 23rd, at Kilnsea, 

 near the Spurn, I shot a mature female Hareld from a flooded 

 meadow. The stomach contained a mass of small red worms 

 and minute stones. 



Somateria mollissima, Eider Duck. — Farn l.h., Nov., *' hun- 

 dreds of Eiders, drakes and ducks, with young birds, flying and 

 swimming about the island every day this month." In December 

 six were shot on Breydon Water, Norfolk. The King Eider, 

 Somateria spectahilis, was again, as in the last two years, 

 seen at the Farn Islands, in company with the Common Eider, 

 in April. 



(Edemia nigra, Common Scoter. — Gull l.v., Aug. 19th to 

 Sept. 11th, great numbers going S.W. 



Colnmha palumhus, Eing Dove. — Farn l.h., Sept. 24th, one. 

 Stock Dove, C. cenas. — On Oct. 25th, at Kilnsea, near the Spurn, 

 I saw one come in direct from the sea and pitch in a field on the 

 cliff top. Heligoland, C.pahimhus, Sept. 30th, some; Oct. 4th, 

 flights, forty to fifty ; 13th and 15th, passing on ; 31st, many. 



Rallus aquaticus, Water Eail. — Farn l.h., Oct. 30th, S., foggy, 

 three at daylight ; Nov. 2nd, one at noon, to land ; Galloper, 

 3rd, one (wing to J. H. G.) Hasbro' l.h., Dec. 9th, S.W., one 

 struck. 



Crex pi'ateiisis, Corn Crake. — Farn l.h.. May 1st, 3 p.m., 

 N.E., one; 23rd, 2 p.m., one. Whitby, 11th, first heard. 

 Winterton l.h., Aug. 10th, midnight, one struck. Spurn l.h., 

 Sept. 15th, one ; Hunstanton l.h., Oct. 8th, one struck and 

 caught alive. M 



CEclicnemiis scoIojmx, Stone Curlew. — Heligoland, Aug. 15th. 



Charadrius 2)luvialis, Golden Plover. — Farn l.h., July 27th, five 

 to E., and on Aug. 20th, flock to W. ; numerous on island through 

 August and September, moving to and from the mainland. At the 

 Spurn on Aug. 29th, a large flock to N.*; and at Wells, Norfolk, 

 Aug. 27th, in small parties on tiiud. Heligoland, July. 16th, one 

 young bird shot; Aug. 21st to 24th, young birds ; 16th and 17th, 

 great flights, all young ; 29th, great flights ; night Oct. 31st to 



'•• The occurrence of a large body of Golden Plovers at the Spurn at this 

 date, passing to the north, is somewhat remarkable in connection with the 

 large flight of the same species seen there, passing in the same direction, on 

 Aug. 22nd, in 1880, and on Sept. 6th in 1881. (YaiTell's Brit. Birds, ed. iv., 

 vol. iii., p. 274j. 



