HEINRICH GATKE : BIRD-NOTES FROM HELIGOLAND. 323 



June. 



1st. — E.S.E., fresh, cirri W. 



No migration ; very few scattered small birds. 

 2nd. — N., still, cold. 



No migration ; few stragglers, small birds. Melano- 

 ■ corypha sibirica^ fine female, the second occurrence. 

 3rd. — N.N.W. and N., slight; early, rain. 



Nothing. Pretty many Turtur communis. 

 4th. — N., slight, cloudy, cold. 



Nothing. Turtur communis^ several. 

 5th. — N.N.W. to N., strong, cold. 



Nothing. Turtur commiuiis^ some. 

 6th. — N. to N.E., slight, clear, very cool. 



Hirundo rustica, some ; Caprimulgus europceus, one ; 

 Loxia curvirostra, three gray birds. 

 7th. — N., fresh, misty clouds, very cold. 



Nothing at all. 

 8th. — N., fresh, overcast, very cold. 



Nothing. ^omQ Turtur comviunis, Saxicola cena?ithe, 

 and one Otocorys alpestris. 

 9th. — E., still, clear, warm. 



Nothing. Few Saxicola oenanthe and Emberiza hortu- 

 la?ia ; one Otocorys alpestris ; Loxia curvirostra^ some. 



loth. — E.S.E., still, fine. 



Very little. Motacilla fiava^ Anthus trivialis^ and 

 Cypselus apus. 

 nth. — S., still ; night, fog ; evening, rain. 



Nothing. The above scattered. Numenius and Totanus 

 calidris. 



I2th. — S.W., feeble, fine. 



Buteo vulgaris^ a couple. Nothing else. 



13th. — W., slight rain; later, clear. 



Buteo vulgaris and Hirundo^ several. 

 14th. — N.W., fresh, clouds S.W., cold, stormy. 



Nothing. 



15th. — W., stormy, rain, 



Sturnus vulgaris^ the first appearance of young, some 

 flights of twenty or fifty. 

 l6th. — N.W., stormy, rain squalls, cold. 



Nothing. ' , 



17th. — N.N.W., windy, rain showers, cold. 



Nothing. 



Nov. 1887. 



