2 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



way between Iceland and Faroe, also on June 29th. One White 

 Wagtail, Motacilla alba, appeared with N. wind on July 30th. 

 One female Roller, Coracias garnila, was shot at Thorshavn on 

 July 22nd, wind E., and one Pomatorhine Skua was seen on 

 July 25th. One Woodcock was shot in Yaago, Sudero, during a 

 S.E. storm, in clear weather ; and of Cygnidce, in all eleven — 

 4 and 7 — Wild Swans flew past high in air from N.W. to S.E. 

 on Nov. 5th. On Nov. 4th was N.E. wind, but on 5th N.W. and 

 W. and shower3\ The prevailing winds at the Faroe Isles were 

 easterly; in October, from the 7th to the end of the month, 

 steady easterly and S.E. 



The ordinary papers, &c., were sent to thirty stations on the 

 East Coast of Scotland, Faroe, and Iceland, as was done in 

 1881. 



Twelve stations on this coast have returned filled-in schedules, 

 — the same number as in 1881, — out of the twenty-six East 

 Scotch stations. As formerly, many returns are light, but those 

 from Isle of May, Pentland Skerries, and Sumburgh Head are 

 fuller than before, again indicating favourite highway's of migra- 

 tion. Bell Eock returns are also very full, but not so full as Isle 

 of May nor Pentland Skerries. From Isle of May alone I have 

 no less than nineteen schedules, and I have also to thank 

 Mr. Agnew for a jar of forty-three specimens of birds, besides 

 others sent me in the flesh or carbolised. At another time I 

 intend to write more fully concerning the birds of the Isle of 

 May, which is a locality of special interest to the student of 

 migration.^' From the Pentland Skerries I have nine filled-in 

 schedules, and from Sumburgh Head four ; from the Bell Rock 

 three closely-filled schedules. 



Here follows the usual list of stations issued with each 

 Report on the same j^lan as before, the dates of years upon 

 which the various stations have sent in Reports being shown by 

 asterisks. 



Our thanks are especially due to those observers who have 

 noted, as far as possible, the directions of flight of the birds 



* I intend to present the collection of bii'ds foi*med on the Isle of 

 May to that station, to lie there in the skin, and serve both to identify 

 birds in future and to be of interest ,to visitors who annually visit the Isle 

 of May. 



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