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HELIGOLAND. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL ALMANACK Fok 1885.1 
January. 
1st and 2d.— 
3d—Fringilla chloris, very many. Alauda arvensis and Twr- 
dus pularis, numerous. 
4th to 8th—Guillemots on hatching ridges in rocks by 
thousands. 
9th and 10th.— 
11th, evening, N.E.—Extensive migration during the night: 
Numenius, Char. auratus, Tringa. 
12th, N.E., hght wind, 1 deg. frost, a httle snow.—Fring. 
chloris, very many; cannabina and montiwm, fewer; Turdus 
pilaris, ilacus, merula, and viscivorus, numerous, the latter 
individually. Anth. pratensis, pretty many; Nwm. arquata and 
Char. auratus, all numerous, migrating overhead. 
13th, 8.E., fine—Sring. chloris, again very many, twenty at 
one shot; cannabina and montium, also very many; Turdus 
pularis and Alauda arvensis, also very many ; Sturnus, fifty to 
sixty. 
14th, N.E., heavy, thick, overcast—Nothing. 
Up to 27th, frost 3-5 deg., fine weather—During the whole 
time only stray birds: Sturnus merula, Al. arvensis, E'mb. 
miliaria. 
28th, 29th, 30th, S.W., overcast, mild.—/#”. chloris, very many. 
Merula, pilaris, Sturnus, Al. arvensis, many passing on. 
February. 
1st and 2d.— Nothing. 
30d.—Al. arvensis, extraordinary many. J. chloris and can- 
nabind, also many. TZ. merula, musicus, iliacus, also pretty 
many. Char. auratus, Num. arquata, many passing on. 
Ath, southerly.— All the above, but considerably fewer. Corv. 
frugilegus, a swarm of at least one hundred. 
Till 9th westerly wind, often foo—Nothing. 9th, Guille- 
mots in rocks. 
1 Contributed by Mr Gatke. 
