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A Moorhen {Gallinula chloropus) was killed at the Cockle 

 L.V. on the night of May 21st; another at the Goodwin L.V. on 

 the night of October 16th. 



A Bearded Eeedling (Panurus biarmicus) was seen at the 

 Languard l.h. on February 16th at 7.40 a.m.; and from Yar- 

 mouth on November 13th is the note, " nice lot of Bearded 

 Tits, are said to have come in at a great height, and from 

 the E." 



The autumn movement commenced early in July, but did 

 not become very distinctly pronounced before the beginning of 

 August. One of the most interesting features of the autumnal 

 migration has been the simultaneous occurrences of the Pygmy 

 Curlew (Tringa subarquata) and the Little Stint (Tringa minuta) 

 on the East Coast, between the Tees and Yarmouth. The 

 former species is first recorded from Eeclcar on August 16th 

 and from the Spurn on August the 2 3d. The Little Stint in 

 the same locality on the 25th. Both were present there in 

 very large numbers on September 2d, with a S.W. gale. The 

 Pygmy Curlew was seen last on the Norfolk coast on October 

 8th, and one, Earn Islands, on November 18th. 



The Woodcock is first recorded at Seaton-Carew, Durham, on 

 September 19th, and at Cromer l.h. on September 25th, from 

 12.30 to 2.30 a.m. (S.E., 4.) Our observer, Mr Comben, says, 

 "never saw so many Woodcock at one time before, there 

 seemed to be a constant stream flying round lantern, none 

 struck." Woodcocks appear to have come in at irregular 

 intervals between September 30th and November 3d. The 

 greatest number perhaps on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of October. 

 Throughout September there was a steady and almost daily 

 increasing migration observed at East Coast stations, but from 

 the 29th and throughout October to November 3d, there was 

 an almost continuous night and day rush of immigrants, the 

 chief of those recorded being Crows, Eooks, Daws, Starlings, 

 Larks, Chaffinches, Linnets, and Sparrows. In fact, during this 

 time much the greater proportion of the entries in the schedules 

 consists of a weary reiteration of these readily distinguished 

 species. The weather during the period of this great invasion 

 was up to the 25th of October mainly anticyclonic, cold, quiet, 

 and dry. The prevailing wind N. and N.-easterly. After the 

 25th, cyclonic with W. and S.- westerly winds, wet, rough, and 



