96 REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 



Bardsey l.h. — " Eighty Blackbirds and about fifty Thrushes 

 killed at lantern." 



Cardigan Bay L.v. — One Eook and two Chaffinches at 11.30 a.m. 



Smalls l.h. — One Corncrake killed at lantern. 



Scarweather L.V. — Six Larks, three dozen Sparrows, and three 

 dozen Linnets passed N.E. between 8.30 and 10.30 A.M. 



Nash l.h. — Two Skylarks killed at 10 P.M., and eleven Starlings 

 killed between 10 and 10.30 p.m. 



October 21st. 



Langness L.H. — A Woodlark at 1 a.m. on lantern. Five Swal- 

 lows at 9.30 A.M. flying S.W. 



Selker L.v. — Blackbirds, Thrushes, Larks, and other birds, un- 

 known, around the lantern until daylight this morning ; many 

 killed. 



Morecambe Bay L.v. — Six Blackbirds, eleven " Titlarks," and 

 five Skylarks flying S. during the forenoon. 



Carnarvon Bay l.v. — Blackbirds, Thrushes, Starlings, and 

 Snipe. One Blackbird, six Thrushes, and one Snipe found dead 

 at 5 a.m. 



Helvnck L.v. — Six to eight dozen Larks passing S. at 11 A.M. 



Nash l.h. — Two Song Thrushes killed at 9.30 p.m. ; four Bed- 

 wings killed between 9 and 11 p.m. (K, 4; c. M.) 



Start Point l.h.— One " Titlark" at 8.30 p.m. 



October 23d. 



Helwick L.v. — Two Thrushes and a female Blackbird killed at 

 3 A.M. 



Nash L.H. — A Woodcock killed at 2 A.M. 



Godrevy l.h. — A great number of Eedwings, Thrushes, and 

 Starlings all night ; some of each killed. (E., 6 ; G. M. P.) 



Longships l.h. — Scores of Starlings and Thrushes all night ; 

 a great number striking. 



Weather for "Week, 24th to 31st October. 



Conditions not pronounced. During earlier portion of week the weather dull, 

 and at times wet over the southern and south-western parts of the United King- 

 dom, fine but rather foggy elsewhere ; later on the rain spread northwards over 

 England and Ireland, and the wind veered from E. to S.E. and S., with a rise of 

 temperature and damp, close air. Pressure highest over Sweden and the Baltic, 

 and, as a rule, lowest over the Bay of Biscay and off our south-western coasts, 



