62 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



them, a small proportion only appear to return by the same 

 route. Spring returns from lighthouses and light -vessels show 

 birds then move on the same lines as were followed in the 

 autumn, but in the reverse direction. Yet these return travellers 

 do not represent anything like a tithe of the immigrants which, 

 week by week and month after month in the autumn, pour in one 

 great tide on to the coast. 



What is called the " first flight" of the Woodcock arrived on 

 the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk coasts on the night of 

 Oct. 21st. The *' great flight '' or rush, which covered the whole 

 of the east coast from the Farn Islands to Yarmouth, was on the 

 nights of the 28th and 29th. These two periods correlate with 

 the great flights of Woodcocks over Heligoland. 



We are again indebted to Professor Ch. F. Liitken, of Copen- 

 hagen, for a list of the birds killed or taken alive against the 

 lantern of the Stevns lighthouse, at the entrance of the Oresund, 

 in Zealand. The list is specially interesting, as it names so 

 many of the Heligoland birds. The occurrence of Locustella 

 fluviatilis on Sept. 5th is the first recorded example for Denmark. 



The Roller, Coracias garrida, occurred in October in two 

 localities, one in Lincolnshire, the other in Suffolk. Two 

 examples of the Sooty Shearwater, Pitffinus griseuSy were 

 obtained in Bridlington Bay in the end of September. Altogether 

 there has been a very marked absence along our east coast of 

 rare and casual visitants ; Heligoland, however, retains its pre- 

 eminence for rare wanderers, and Mr. Gatke's list for 1883 

 includes Tardus varius, Pratincola ruhicola var. indicuSy Phyl- 

 loscopus superciliosus, Hypolais pallida^ Motacilla citriolay Anthus 

 cervinuSy A, Richardi, Oriolus galbidaj Lanius major y Muscicapa 

 parvay Linota exilipeSy Emheriza melanocephalay E, cirluSy E, 

 rusticay E. pusillay Pastor roseuSy and Xema Sabinii, 



Note, — At page 47, under the head " Coracias gari^ulay Roller,'* 

 the locality of Bradwell is erroneously given in Norfolk, instead 

 of Suffolk (2i miles S.W. of Great Yarmouth). Mr. Gurney 

 writes that, on June 6th, 1884, a Roller was shot at Gresham, 

 near Cromer, and that before this Norfolk has not produced one 

 for about thirty years. 



