36 EEPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



— Outer Dowsing L.v., April 2d, three Eedpoles flying about 

 vessel. 



Pyrrhuia Europoea, Common Bullfinch. — Tees l.v., October 

 15th, S.E., rain, one came on board. 



Loxia Curvirostra, Common Crossbill. — Great Cotes, July 

 28th, 3 P.M., one, quite a young bird, in the striated plumage, 

 clinging to sash of the dining-room window. Yarmouth, 

 December 22d, one caught at sea and brought in alive. 



Emberiza Miliaria, Common Bunting. — Languard L.H., 

 November 19th, W.N.W., noon, large flock to N.E. 



Plectrophanes Lapponicus, Lapland Bunting. — Dover, end 

 of November, adult male taken alive [H. A. M.]. 



P. Nivalis, Snow Bunting.— Spring : Tees l.v., March 13th, 

 one to 1ST. Hunstanton L.H., April 2d, flock. Autumn : Spurn, 

 September 20th, five. Longstone l.h., 25th, one at 3 p.m. and 

 three at 5 p.m. ; October 3, 11.30 a.m., S.S.E., three; 6th, three. 

 Earn l.il, 16th, small flock. Yarmouth, 30th, few. Tees l.v., 

 November 8th and 13th, December 2d, 10th, and 27th, flocks 

 to S. Cockle L.v., November 27th, 5.30 a.m., one killed. 

 Altogether the smallest immigration recorded for many years. 



Alauda Arvensis, Skylark. — Spring, 1886 : Spurn, March 

 2d, great rush to S. with others (overcast, squally, snow). 

 Outer Dowsing l.v., January 21st, 23d, and 24th, February 

 10th, llth, and 13th, very large migration ; on 11th and 13th 

 February, E.S.E. to W.N.W. ; March 18th and 19th, flight to 

 S.W. and W., and some to end of April in same direction. 

 Dudgeon L.v., March 20th and 23d, Larks N.W. to S.E. Leman 

 and Ower L.v., February 12th and 13th, 3 a.m., and 12 p.m. to 

 daylight, to W. (seventy-two Larks and fifteen Starlings killed). 

 Cockle L.v., March 8th, 7 a.m., large flock to E. ; 10 a.m., large 

 flock to W.. very swift. Kentish Knock L.v., January 22d and 

 23d, 6 p.m. to 4 a.m., thousands ; February 30th, 4.30 a.m., 

 thousands — like clouds. Cockle L.v., January 19th to 29th, 

 1887, continuous flocks to W. 



Autumn : An enormous migration, commencing at Llyn Wells 

 L.v., July 24th, 25th, and 26th, all night, and on August 15th. 

 Cromer L.H., September 20th, all night. There was an immense 

 rush in October, the bulk arriving in two almost continuous 

 rushes during the first and third weeks, observed at twenty-eight 

 stations, seventeen of which are light- vessels, and covering the 



