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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. IV.] 



MAY, 18S0. 



[No. 41 



REPORT ON THE JJIGRATION OF BIRDS ^ THE 

 ' AUTUMN OF 1879.f '' 



By John A. Ha ryie-Bu own and John Cordeaux. 



EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. 



Pkinted forms of enquiiy and letters of instructions were 

 sent to twenty-six lighthouses on the east coast of Scotland. 

 Thirteen stations have sent in returns, and thirteen have either 

 sent in none, or have returned blank forms, owing to unusual 

 scarcity of birds. The stations from which co-operation was asked 

 are the following, commencing with the most northerly. Those 

 from which returns have been received are marked with a *. 



*Nortb Unst, Shetland ; white and red sectors, fixed. Robert Burnett. 



Whalsey Skerries, Shetland ; white, revolving every minute. 



Bressay Sound, Shetland ; red and white alternately, rev. every minute. 

 *Sumburgh Head, Shetland ; white, fixed. William Anderson. 

 *North Ronaldshay, Orkney ; white, flash every 10 seconds. John Tulloch. 



Start Point, Orkney ; red, fixed. 

 ^i-Auskerry, Orkney ; white, fixed. Charles C. Irvine. 



+ I would here direct attention to another paper of mine bearing upon this 

 subject, which was read at the meeting of the Glasgow Natural History Society on 

 Sept. 30th, 1879, and forms part of its * Proceedings ' for tlie Session 1879-80, now 

 in the press. It forms a Report upon Migration of 1878, Journal of the severe 

 winter of 1879-80, and Observations on the eftects of the weather, under the different 

 species of Mammals and Birds noticed. I read a similar Eeport on 1879-80 at the 

 meeting of the same Society in March last. — J. A. H.-B. 



