18 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Swin Middle l.v. 



Tongue l.v. 



Nore l.v. 



Goodwin l.v. 



Gull L.V. 



South Sand Head l.v. 



East Side l.v. 



Yarne l.v. 



Hanois l.h., Guernsey 



Samuel Pender. 



Nil. 



Win, Little wood (wings). 



Thomas Rees. 



Francis Harvey and J. Jenkins. 



F. G. Foreman. 



W. Nicholls and E. le Gallais. 



William Kingsford. 



Charles Williams. 





In addition to the observations supplied by the lightkeepers, 

 notes have been incorporated, directly or indirectly communi- 

 cated by Messrs T. H. Nelson, Eedcar (12 schedules) ; C. Donald 

 Thompson, Seaton-Carew ; Matthew Bailey, Flamborough ; W. 

 Eagle Clarke, Philip Lawton, W. Cecil Scott, and F. D. Power, 

 The Spurn; J. H. Gurney, Jun., North-East Norfolk; O. V. 

 Aplin, Norfolk Coast; G. Smith, Arthur Patterson, Benjamin 

 Dye, and W. P. Pycraft, Yarmouth ; also from Mr G. H. Caton 

 Haigh, Grainsby Hall, notes from Tetney and North-East 

 Lincolnshire ; and Lord Clifton, Dumpton Park, Ramsgate, 

 from Isle of Thanet. 



Notes also bearing on migration have been utilised from the 

 Naturalist, the Zoologist, and the natural history column in the 

 Field newspaper. 



Diary of Migratory Movements on East Coast of 

 England, 1887. 



JANUARY. 



January 1st. — l Flambro' l.h., several flocks of Guillemot 

 about the cliffs. Nevmrp l.v., nineteen Crows to W., 4 p.m. 



January 4th. — Tees l.v., large flocks Dunlin, Whimbrel, 

 Curlew, one Red-throated Diver, and eighteen Shelduck. 

 (N.W., light.) Hunstanton L.H., thousands of Larks, 9.30 A.M. 

 to 3 p.m., to S. ; also Lapwings. (Wind S., b. c.) Languard 

 l.h., " owing to last night's heavy weather, thousands of birds — 

 Thrushes, Blackbirds, Starlings, Fieldfares, Linnets, Skylarks, 



1 The sequence of the stations is from north to south. The weather reports 

 at the various stations are given in brackets. The symbols are those which 

 have been adopted in the Beaufort Scale. The force of the wind ranges from 

 to 12. 



