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gallinago, tolerable. Fr. celebs, very many arrived about 
evening. 
28th, E.N.E., slight, light clouds, sunny. 
and young; wsalon, young; nisus arrived about evening. It is 
strange that nzsws mostly and suddenly arrives late in the after- 
noon in great numbers. C. corniz, not many. Sturnus, nume- 
rous flights. 7. musicus, pretty many ; torquatus, fewer ; pilaris, 
some. Mus. luctuosa, few. Sax. enanthe, many ; rubetra ceases. 
Sy. rubecula, phenicurus, cinerea, atricapilla, and trochilus, nume- 
rous ; rufa, fewer; of trochilus, now mostly old faded birds. Sy, 
superciliosus, two very fine specimens been shot. Another 
warbler with light bands on wings, the size of rufa, wounded, 
but not obtained. Mot. flava, few; alba,more. <Anth. pratensis 
and rupestris, many; arborea ceases. Limb. scheniclus, many ; 
nivalis, very many; hortulana ceases. . celebs, many; monti- 
fringilla, do. ; spinus, some. Al. alpestris, a few. Regulus 
flavicapillus, pretty many. Hr. rustica, many. Col. palumbus, 
tolerable. Scolopax, pretty many; rusticula, five been shot. 
Ch. auratus, many. Tringe, many, all young birds. Procel- 
laria glacialis, a fine old bird with white head obtained. 
29th, 8. by E.; light, later fresh, S.E. clouds, 8. by W. to W.: 
P.M., wind 8.W.; about evening rain. Storm notified from 
America between 28th and 30th—JSF. esalon, tinnunculus, and 
misus ; St. brachyotus—all, but singly. C. cormiz, several flights 
of hundreds ; frugilegus, about eighty. Sturnus, some flights of 
a hundred and above. 7. musicus and torquatus, early, many. 
Sylvie, few. Muscicapa, over. Reg. flavicapillus,many. Hiv, 
rustica, tolerable. Al. arvensis, pretty many early in fore- 
noon. mb. scheniclus, many. Fringille, few. Anthus, do 
Scol. rusticula, some. 
30th, early, ight, N.N.W., clear; P.m., S. by W., thick, windy. 
—Almost nothing at all. Only very scattered C. cornix, Tur- 
dus, Sturnus, and Sylvie. . Trochilus, Anth. arborea, and hortu- 
lana, over. 
F. peregrinus, old 

October. 
“Ast, S.W.; violent in night, N.W., stormy, No. 7, heavy rain, 
squalls strong, lightning—Nothing. Parus major and ceruleus, 
some. | 
* 2d, N.W. to W., stormy, squalls, No.7; in night, No. 8 to 9— 
Nothing. 
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