82 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



to Oct. 7tli. Garden Warbler from Aug. 19tb to end of September. 

 Blackcap as late as Oct. 27tb. 



Golden-crested Wren, Reguhis cristatus, Koch. — Spring, 1882 : 

 Heligoland, March 13th and 14th, several, and on to April 12th. 

 Autumn : the autumn of 1882 will be long remembered amongst 

 ornithologists from the extraordinary immigration of Goldcrests 

 on to the east coasts of Scotland and England. On the east coast 

 of England the migration extended over ninety-two days, com- 

 mencing Aug. 6th. Cromer l.h., midnight, two stunned against 

 lantern, and a week later at Kedcar, Aug. 13th, wind S.W., forty 

 to fifty, at 8 a.m., seen on the breakwater, and forward, at 

 many stations and in immense numbers, to Nov. 5th, Cockle 

 L.V., 5 a.m., one caught against glass. They arrived some- 

 what sparingly in August and through September, and day 

 after day in enormous numbers in October ; in this month they 

 are recorded at twenty-one stations between the Fame Islands 

 and the Hanois l.h., off Guernsey. There appear to have been 

 two great rushes, one on the night of Oct. 7th and morning of 

 8th, and again on night of 12th and morning of 13th, the latter 

 with the Woodcock.* Many also are likewise reported during the 

 month to have alighted on fishing-boats, steam-vessels, &c., in the 

 North Sea. At Heligoland, on Oct. 8th, all the island swarmed 

 with them ; they had also been exeeedingly numerous there from 

 Sept. 8th, continuing also to arrive and depart throughout 

 October, and on the night from 28th to 29th Mr. Gatke remarks, 

 ** a perfect storm of Goldcrests we have had, — poor little souls ! — 

 perching on the ledges of the window-panes of the lantern of our 

 lighthouse, preening their feathers in the glare of the lamps ; on 

 the 29th all the island swarmed with them, filling the gardens 

 everywhere, and over all the cliff — hundreds of thousands ; by 

 9 a.m. most of them had passed on again." On English coast, 

 Fame Inner l.h., Oct. 8th, ''never remember seeing so many at 

 one time." Whitby l.h., 8th and 12th, "great rush." Flam- 

 borough, 7th to 14th, "never more seen." Spurn, 7th to 8th, 

 "in turnip-fields, hedges, and everywhere, never more seen." 

 Great Cotes, 8th, great many everywhere, and even on the piles 

 of timber on the dock-quays and timber-yards at Grimsby. 

 Dudgeon l.v., 12th, " flock to W." Cromer l.h., 10th and 12th, 



* At this date the stream of Goldcrests extended quite across England, 

 the Irish Channel, and into Ireland. 



