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through the night. At Cromer on Oct. 24th three Thrushes struck 

 the lantern during the night ; on the oOth four, and on Nov. 16th 

 five others. At the Newarp, Nov. 28th, 9 a.m., six Blackbirds passed. 

 At the Kentish Knock, Nov. 18th, one Thrush killed. At the Nore, 

 Nov. 7th, four Blackbirds, going W.S.W. ; Nov. 3rd, Fieldfares. 

 At the North Foreland, Nov. 21st, 1 a.m., E.S E., snow, one Black- 

 bird killed. At the Gull-stream, Nov. 21st, cloudy and showers of 

 snow, Starlings, Blackbirds, and Thrushes in the vicinity of light 

 from 1 to 4 a.m. ; six Starlings, four Thrushes, and one Blackbird 

 killed. At the South-sand Head, Oct. 12th, dense fog, many 

 Thrushes; several killed. General line of migration, with few 

 exceptions, E. to W., carried on both by day and night; a con- 

 siderable proportion, however, appear to arrive from daj'break to 

 10 a.m. Migration of Thrush extending over seventy- seven days, 

 from Oct. 1st at Teesmouth to Dec. 16th at the Leman and Ower ; 

 of Redwing, sixt^^-five days, from Sept. 11th at the Longstone to 

 Dec. 2nd at Teesmouth; of Fieldfare, twenty-eight days, from 

 Nov. 8rd at the Nore to Dec. 1st at Teesmouth;! of Blackbird, 

 seventy-two days, from Sept. 24th at the Outer Dowsing to Dec. 5th 

 at Earn Islands. I On Oct. 29th, S.E. and E., Tardus iliaciis crossed 

 Heligoland in large numbers, " thousands and thousands passing 

 on overhead ; the same day, T. torquatus, " a few"; T. merula and 

 T. musicus, "limited numbers"; *' T. iliacus descending from 

 invisible heights down to about one hundred feet above island, — 

 three hundred feet above the sea, — then all of them passing on; 

 when atmosphere got clear again, in afternoon, passage ceased." 

 Again on the night of the 30th, N.N.E., "enormous number of 

 Turdidce passing overhead." 



Redbreast, Whitethroat, Wren.— The same notes in the 

 reports applying generally to the three species, it is not necessary 

 to treat them separately. At Coquet Island, on Sept. 13th, 11 p.m., 

 two Redbreasts struck glass, not killed. At Hunstanton, on 



t Mr. W. Eagle Clarke reports that on the Sith of January last large -numbers 

 of Fieldfares were seen between Easington and Kilnsea, near Spurn Point, and as they 

 were the first seen in the neighbourhood this season they were no doubt ini migrants, 

 moi-e particularly as tbe locality in which they were seen is one where they are only 

 observed during or immediately after arrival. Large Hocks appeared also in North- 

 East Lincolnshire during the last fortnight in January, so far as my own observations 

 go, composed entirely of old birds. Mr. Gatke also writes, "All January through, 

 night from 10th to 11th, great many from the east; 21st to 2J:th, the same." — J. C. 



I Numbers of fine old cock Blackbirds arrived at Spurn during the latter part of 

 January, and early in February at the same time with the Fieldfares. — J. C. 



