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torquatus, and iliacus, passing on overhead’ pilaris, some. Fr. 
celebs and montifringilla, many ; cannabina, fewer. 
lith, E.S.E., moderate; a.M., rain; P.M., clear; in evening 
E.N.E., light, clear.—fF. nisus, some. C. corniz, innumerable 
flights ; monedula, very many. Sturnus, flights like clouds in 
many thousands. 7. musicus, tolerable; torquatus, scattered. 
No Sylvie. Accentor, a couple. Troglodytes, tolerable. Mot. 
alba, some. Anthus, many. Al. arvensis,many, extremely many 
passing over the sea; alpestris, pretty many; arborea, single. 
F. celebs, montifringilla, cannabina, spinus, not very many. 
fir. rustica and urbica, scattered. Col. palwmbus, Scolopax, and 
Char. auratus, all not many. 
12th, N.N.E., light; in evening 8.W., slight; rain showers 
during day.—All the above, but in considerably smaller num- 
bers. F. peregrinus, one old bird shot. Sy. rubicula, very many ; 
rufa, also pretty many. Accentor, also many. fey. flavica- 
pulus, pretty many. Fr. linaria, some. 
13th, S.W., violent, overcast, rain shower.—Nothing. 7. 
iiacus, flights; mwsicus and torquatus, few. 
14th, 8. by E., very violent, thick clouds, overcast.—Nothing. 
Fr, celebs, montifringilla, and cannabina, some flights passing. 
Thrushes, almost none. Regulus, some. 
15th, S.E., slight clear, middle high clouds from W. by 8.; 
noon, light, cloudy. Wind, E. by N., clouds from 8, In evening, 
E. by N., violent, clouds from 8. by E. In night, east, very 
violent, thick clouds from S.E.—JF. peregrinus, old; esalon, 
tinnunculus, nisus, of the latter three several. Corv. cornia, ex- 
traordinary many, hundred thousands. Monedula, flights of 
hundred and above. 7. musicus, torquatus, iliacus,few. Visci- 
vorus, a couple. Sylvie, very strayed. Regulus,do. <Accentor, 
none. Anth. pratensis, few. Richardi, one. Al. arvensis, very 
many ; alpestiris, hundreds. EHmb. citrinella, some. 7. celebs, 
numerous, passing on overhead, but so high that the call of 
thousands over thousands could only be heard from aloft without 
the birds being visible. col. gallinago, some. Rusticula, none. 
Note-—According to the weather in the morning, there ought 
to have been considerable migration—Thrushes and Woodcocks 
—but prominent westerly currents in higher regions acted 
adverse. | 
During the night to 16th, extraordinary strong migration of 
