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EAST COAST OP ENGLAND. 



Schedules were sent to thirty-eight stations, lighthouses 

 and light-vessels, on the East Coast of England, and returns 

 have been received from twenty-six. 



Independent reports have been received from Malmo, 

 Sweden; Stevns Fyr (lighthouse of Stevns), Zealand ; and from 

 Heligoland. Also from several land stations on the East Coast, 

 namely Northumberland coast, Seaton-Carew, Kedcar, Flam- 

 borough, Spurn, Great Cotes (Lincolnshire), Blakeney and Cley, 

 Wells and Cromer (Norfolk), Yarmouth and the Isle of Thanet ; 

 altogether thirty-seven reporting stations against thirty-five in 

 1883. The total number of schedules sent in is seventy, a 

 considerable increase on previous years, and the labour of 

 arranging, tabulating and reporting thereon has been con- 

 siderably increased. 



The schedules received from the lightkeepers are very 

 satisfactory ; they register an immense amount of special 

 information relating to the passage of migrants in the spring 

 and autumn of 1884 ; the entries are so numerous, and the mass 

 of materials so large, that it is impossible to give more than the 

 general results of the collected observations. 



The notes from land stations, courteously placed at our 

 disposal by independent observers, many of whom are practical 

 ornithologists of long standing and repute, add greatly to the 

 value of the report, and go far to establish the approximate 

 correctness of the details as given in the separate remarks on 

 each species. 



Our thanks are due to Frank K. Newton, Professor H. 

 Liitken, H. Gatke, T. H. Nelson, C. Donald Thompson, Matthew 

 Bailey, W. Eagle Clarke, the Kev. H. H. Slater, Philip Lawton, 

 J. H. Gurney, J. F. D. Power, M. Vaughan, and Lord Clifton, for 

 kind co-operation and assistance, either in direct communication 

 or by access to their unpublished field notes, some of which will 

 probably subsequently appear in the Journals and Proceedings of 

 various Natural History Societies. 



