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Merganser, a few observed off Kedcar at sea between Oct. 12th 

 and 25th. 



Columba palumbus, King Dove. — Orfordness, Sept. 27th, 

 9 p.m., one struck, killed. Languard, 29th, 8 a.m., eight flying 

 very quick W. to N.E. Between 21st of October and the end of 

 November there was an immense immigration covering the East 

 Coast between Berwick and Yarmouth ; rushes Oct. 21st to 25th, 

 Nov. 2nd and 20th to 28th, continuous for nine days. Mr. T. H. 

 Nelson says "there was an enormous arrival of these birds in 

 the Kedcar neighbourhood about the middle of November. I 

 have not noted all down in the schedule, as I did not see them 

 all myself, but am told that from the 20th to end of month there 

 was a continuous migration ; a friend shot about fifty in three 

 days between Kedcar and Marske ; there was also a con- 

 siderable influx into the Bishop Auckland district about the 

 same time." In Northumberland the numbers were so large as 

 to attract general attention. In Lincolnshire the arrival was 

 immense, also on the Norfolk coast. Hundreds were shot on 

 their first arrival, their crops and stomachs containing no food, 

 invariably the case with all newly arrived migrants. Heligo- 

 land, Oct. 3rd, flight of sixty ; 12th, some ; 25th, great many, 

 twenty to thirty in a flight. 



C. cenas, Stockdove. — Great numbers crossed in the autumn 

 with the ring doves, mixed or in separate flocks. In November I 

 saw one flock of four or five hundred in the Great Cotes marshes, 

 an enormous flight considering the limited number bred in 

 the district. From the beginning of December to the end of 

 February large flights have daily resorted to fields of young 

 clover, or those recently laid down with permanent grasses. 



Turtur communis. Turtle Dove. — Thanet, Oct. 4th, last seen. 



Kallidje, Rallies aquaticus, Water Kail. — There appears to 

 have been a very considerable immigration between the third 

 week in September and at intervals to the end of November, and 

 through the autumn they were exceedingly plentiful in all 

 likely localities on the East Coast. Heligoland, Oct. 25th, some ; 

 30th, two or three. Porzana maruetta, Spotted Crake. Kedcar, 

 Sept. 2nd, one. Heligoland, Oct. 23rd, one. Crex prate?isis, 

 Corn Crake. Spring : Whitby, May 2nd, W.S.W., 3 a.m., first 

 heard. Autumn : Great Cotes, Sept. 4th ; and last near Spurn, 

 Oct. 27th and 28th, one each day. Gallinula chloropus, Moor- 



