WEST COAST OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND ISLE OF MAN. Ill 



Autumn : July 7th, Langness, large numbers. August 4th, 

 Flatholm, small party; 9th, a large flock; 18th, Cardigan Bay, 

 nine at 7.30 p.m. September 4th, Smalls, numbers ; 19th, Lundy, 

 thirty or forty (J. J. Philips, "Field," October 2d, 1886, p. 510); 

 20th, Lundy, one (Id.). 



Caprimidgus europceus, L., Nightjar. — Spring : May 6th, N.W. 

 Merioneth, but not common until the 2 2d. 



Autumn : September 3d, *Nash, four at 2.10 a.m., one killed. 



Gecinus viridis (L.), Green Woodpecker. — October 26th, Nash. 

 Mr Nicholas reports a great many birds at the lantern during 

 the early hours of the morning; at sunrise they passed S.E.; and 

 that a bird of this species was seen among the others. 



Cuculus canorus, L., Cuckoo. — Spring : April 19th, Langness, 

 one at 10 a.m. ; 25th, Carlisle ; 27th, Nash, one passed to N. ; 

 29th, Nash, four. 



Autumn : August 1st, Nash, two at lantern at 11.30 p.m. 

 September 3d, *Nash, six [young of the year] at 3 a.m., two 

 killed. 



Accipiter nisus (L.), Sparrow-Hawk. — Autumn : September 

 14th, Bishop Eock, one appeared ; 20th, Chickens Rock, one 

 going E. at 7 a.m. ; 28th, Smalls, one in the morning. 



Tinnunculus alaudarius (Gm.), Kestrel. — Autumn : October 

 5th, Wolf Rock, one ; Smalls, one. 



Pandion haliaetus (L.), Osprey. — Autumn : August 16th, 

 Breconshire, one fishing at Llangorse Lake (Philips, Zool, 1886, 

 p. 417). 



Anser ? " Wild Goose." — Spring : March 27th, St 



Bees, about twenty at 6 p.m. 



, " Wild Duck."— Autumn : October 19th, a 



large number at 5.30 p.m. 



Anser segetum (Gm.), Bean Goose. — April 27th, about 120 

 passed over Allonby in a flock ; eight more seen in July ; and 

 many seen in October and November. 



Bernicla brenta (P.), Brent Goose. — Present on Solway till 

 end of March. 



Bernicla leucopsis (Bechst.), Barnacle Goose. — October 11th, 

 arrived at Rockliffe. 



Dafila acuta (L.), Pintail Duck. — October 23d, Cumberland, 

 one shot. 



