88 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Bishop Hock l.h. — About fifty Wheatears, one Starling, and a 

 Blackbird from 12 p.m. to 3 A.M. ; four or five came to glass, 

 but none killed. (N.N.E., 4 ; overcast.) 



September 2d. 



Langness L.H. — One Wheatear and one Willow Warbler on 

 lantern at 2 a.m. (Light S.W. ; clear.) Five Wagtails at 9.30 a.m. 



Skerries Rock l.h. — Flycatchers and Wheatears flying round 

 lantern at midnight. (N.E., 2 ; fine, clear.) 



Eddystone l.h. — Hundreds of Wheatears from 9 P.M. to 4 a.m. 

 (3d) ; none caught. (N.E. by E., 3 ; B. c. V.) 



Plymouth Breakwater l.h. — Two Flycatchers struck and killed 

 at 9.30 p.m. (N.W., 5 ; o. R. M.) 



September 3d. 1 



Langness L.H. — A few Warblers on lantern from 1 to 4 a.m. 

 A few House Martins at 9.30 a.m. A great many Wheatears 

 all day. (Light N.E. ; haze.) 



Chickens Bock l.h. — Number of Stonechats (? Wheatears) flying 

 round light all night. 



River Dee L.v. — Scores of birds about the light from midnight 

 till 4 a.m. One young " Sand- Lark," one *Whitethroat, and one 

 *Moorhen killed ; one Gull caught alive. (E.S.E., 2 ; fog.) 



Smalls L.H. — Quail in the morning; Kestrel seen on rock in 

 the evening. (E.N.E., 1 ; o. M.) 



Nash (E.) l.h. — Four *Nightjars at 2.10 A.M., one killed ; fifteen 

 to twenty *Common Buntings from 2.15 to 3 a.m., eight killed ; 

 fifty to sixty *Common Whitethroats from 2.15 to 3 A.M., twenty- 

 four killed ; twenty to thirty *Willow Wrens from 2.20 to 3.20 

 A.M., seventeen killed ; six young *Cuckoos at 3 A.M., two killed ; 

 fourteen House Sparrows and one Eobin killed at 3 a.m. ; thirty 

 to forty Wheatears at 3.10 A.M., two killed; three Blackbirds 

 from 3 to 3.15 A.M., one killed. Mr H. Nicholas says that on 

 the 3d " there was an enormous arrival of small birds, the 

 greatest number ever seen here at any one time." 



Longships l.h. — Several birds from 9.30 p.m. to midnight; 

 three struck ; one Lark killed. (S.E., 3 ; misty and rain.) 



Bishop Rock l.h. — About one hundred Wheatears, two Kinged 



1 For meteorological conditions, see p. 87. 



