46 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Oct. 20th, five Skuas to E. Nov. 1st, Longstone, one. Have 

 been remarkably scarce on the coast. 



Procellariid^, Petrels. — Coquet l.h., Oct. 14th, 7 p.m., one 

 Stormy Petrel caught against glass and set at liberty again. 

 Languard, 11th, one, 6.15 p.m. Spurn, 29th, one at edge of water. 



Alcid^, Auks. — Common Guillemot, Lomvia troile, (Linn.), 

 Longstone l.h., Jan. 3rd, 1883, Guillemots flying in from sea to 

 island; March 15th, 1882, assembling for breeding on islands; 

 May 15th, Puffins assembling on islands ; Aug. 25th, Guillemots 

 and Puffins have left their nesting-quarters on rocks ; Oct. 22nd, 

 Little Auk, Mergulus alba, Linn., one seen ; Nov. 1st, two young 

 Puffins seen. Inner Fame, April 1st, multitudes of Guillemots 

 flying up to their nesting-quarters ; Nov. 18th, several Puffins 

 and Guillemots off islands. Flamborough, Guillemots great 

 many last week in January, towards headland ; Feb. 5th, great 

 numbers going N. all morning ; Dec. 27th, first seen off coast, 

 are passing and repassing daily in great numbers. 



CoLYMBiDiE, Divers. — Inner Fame, Sept. 6th, Great Northern 

 Diver, C. glacialis, Linn., three to N. ; Dec, first week, Ked-throated 

 Diver, C. septentrionalis, Linn., Black-throated Diver, C. arcticiLs, 

 Linn., and Great Northern Diver, all three about the islands this 

 week ; on 5th, fourteen Great Northern Divers to W. Longstone, 

 Nov. 14th, two young Great Northern Divers off island fishing. 

 Teesmouth, Oct. 31st, flock of Great Northern Divers passed at 

 noon. 



PoDiciPiTiDiE, Grebes. — October, Sclavonian Grebe, Podiceps 

 aurituSf Linn., adult in winter plumage shot in a timber pond 

 at Hull ; Red-necked Grebe, P. griseigena (Bodd.), and Sclavonian 

 Grebe, on Humber in October and November. 



The Committee are indebted to Professor Chr. Fr. Liitken, of 

 the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, for a list of 

 the birds killed against the lantern of the lighthouse of Stevns, 

 on the projecting part of Zealand, marking the limit between 

 the Baltic and the Gronsund Belt, in the autumn of 1882. 

 Professor Liitken, in forwarding the list, remarked that his late 

 lamented predecessor. Professor Reinhardt, made arrangements 

 with a physician, Mr. Antander, residing at the small town 

 of Storeheddinge, seven Danish miles south of Copenhagen, in 

 the neighbourhood of Stevns Klint and the lighthouse of Stevns, 

 for forwarding any birds found killed to the museum, with the 

 following result : — 



