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May. 



1st. — N.W., violent, cloudy, cold. 



Almost no migration. Corvus comix, Tiirdits musicus, 

 Motacilla flava, Saxicola cenanthe^ Pratiricola rubetra, 

 Ruticilla phcinic2irus,Anthus pratensis, A. trivialis ; Yiinx 

 torquilla, two or three ; two or three Scolopax rusticula 

 and Gallinago ; all very scattered. 

 2nd. — X.E., violent, cold, overcast ; evening, stiller. 



J^a/co peregrimis, F. cBsaIo?i, few Thrushes, Motacilla 

 flava, Saxicola cenanthe, a few Scolopax rusticula. Almost 

 no migration whatever. 



3rd. — N.E., slight, clear, fine ; cirri, E., middle high, scattered, clouds slow, ^^^ 

 Falco peregrifius and F. cEsalon, females, some ; Tinnuii- 

 ciilus alaiidarius SiudiAccipiter nisiis, several ; Corvus cor?iix, 

 C. frugilegus, C. inonedula^ and Turdus torquatus, pretty 

 many ; T. musicus, fewer ; Phylloscopus trochilus and 

 Ruticilla phoinicurus, pretty many ; Sylvia cinerea, fewer ; 

 Accentor modularis, tolerable ; Motacilla alba, few ; M. 

 flava, Anthus trivialis, and A. pratensis, many ; Otocorys 

 alpestris, still pretty many, sixty or eighty ; Plectrophanes 

 lapponica, one or two ; Linota caniiabina, tolerable ; 

 Carduelis elegans and Charadrius pluvialis, some ; 

 Numenius arquata, many. 



4th. — Still, clear, fine ; night, hoar-host ; cirri, slow, X.E., single lower clouds, 

 slow, W. 



Early, little migration on account of hoar-frost ; later 

 in morning and forenoon, very lively. Falco peregrinus, 

 two or three; F. cesalon (female) and Tinnunculus alauda- 

 rius, several ; Corvus cor?iix, C.frugilegus, and C monedula, 

 lively migration ; Turdus musicus, pretty many ; T. tor- 

 quatus, fewer ; Muscicapa atricapilla, males, many ; 

 Phylloscopus trochilus, Ei'ithacus rubecula, Ruticilla ph«7ii- 

 curus, Acce?itor vwdularis, Saxicola oenajithe, Pratincola 

 rubetra, Motacilla flava, and Alauda arborea, some ; 

 Otocorys alpestris, still many ; Emberiza citrinella, some ; 

 E. hortulaiia, Yunx torquilla, Linota cannabina, and 

 Coccothi'austes chloris, many j Carduelis elegans, some ; 

 Coliunba palumbus, about ten ; Nu77ienius phcBopus, many, 

 thirty-two in one chain ; Charadrius pluvialis, some ; 

 ^gialitis hiaticula and Hcematopus ostralegus, many ; 

 Totanus calidris, often ; over-night much migration of 

 Numenius, Totanus, Hcefnatopus, Charadrius, etc. 



