SEY ENT REP OR T 
ON 
THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS 
IN THE 
SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1885. 
This year, in order to decrease the bulk of the Report, the Committee 
decided that Ocean Notes be not printed in the Report, but separately. 
Messrs Gray and Swinburne having again kindly kept notes for us, 
these will be retained for future publication. 
GENERAL REMARKS. : 
Our thanks are again due to the numerous Reporters, whose 
names are given under the “ Diaries” of the two coasts. 
Additions to our List of Stations are Fidra in the Firth of 
Forth, and also very shortly after this will be added a leght- 
vessel off the Carr Rock, coast of Fife, holding an intermediate 
position between Bell Rock and Isle of May; and on the west 
coast the light upon Ailsa Craig. It is intended to introduce 
the electric light at Isle of May, and machinery and works are 
at present in course of erection. 
We regret to learn that an order has been issued that light- 
house keepers shall no longer be allowed to read or write in 
the lantern-rooms; and we are glad that some little notice has 
been taken of the fact in the House of Commons on the 12th 
April 1886. 
The 1885 schedules show distinctly the compressed nature of 
the migration, which, while very considerable in numerical im- 
