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EAST COAST OF ENGLAND. 



Printed forms of enquiry and letters of instruction were sent 

 to thirty-seven lighthouses and light-vessels on the east coast of 

 England, and, through the kind co-operation of Mr. Cecil Smith, 

 to two of the principal lighthouses in the Channel Islands : 

 independent reports have also been received from four stations 

 on the east coast ; and my best thanks are due to T. H. Nelson 

 and C. Donald Thompson, Teesmouth ; M. Bailey, Flamborough ; 

 Wm. Eagle Clarke and H. Bendelack Hewetson [Leeds] ; notes 

 from Spurn Point. J. H. Gurney, jun., Northrepps, and Major 

 C. Eussell, Essex, for supplying notices of the movements of 

 birds in their respective districts. These reports have either 

 been treated separately or incorporated with the nearest light- 

 house. I have also received many interesting notes from 

 Mr. Gatke, on the migration of birds over Heligoland from 

 the commencement of June to the end of December, which are 

 especially welcome as a most valuable addition to the report. 

 Special thanks I also must tender to those various observers in 

 the lighthouses and light-vessels scattered along the east coast. 

 Altogether, out of forty-four stations, returns have been sent in 

 from thirty-eight ; two other stations report no birds seen during 

 the autumn, from the circumstances of their situations in the 

 midst of houses ; and only from four have no returns been made. 

 The observations are in many respects an improvement on those 

 of the preceding year, exhibiting in a marked degree the 

 intelligent interest taken by the observers in their work — work 

 which it must be remembered is entirely voluntary, and often 

 carried on under circumstances of considerable difficulty and 

 discomfort. 



The east coast stations are as follows, those making returns 

 being marked with a * : — 



40. =:=Longstone, on the raost easterly of the Fame Islands ; white light, 



revolving every 30 seconds. 



41. -i^Farne Inner, two hghts; white, revolving every 30 seconds. 



42. =:=Coquet Island, coast of Northumberland ; two white lights in same 



tower. 



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