at Cromer it was reported that some had appeared, with a Greater 
.Spotted "W ooil pecker, in the gardens of the town. From a letter 
icceived from II. Gatke, it appears that tlie migration extended to 
Heligoland. Ho writo.s, in answer to some queries: “ Towards end 
of October very great numbers of Syloia ruhecula and lierjulus 
JhiLncctpillus, the latter during the night, on the 28th and 29th 
myriads, on the 29th, early, the island covered with them.” From 
the date it appears they did not come from Heligoland to usj 
more probably both Norfolk and Heligoland were siq.plied from a 
country further north. Goldcrests have freijnently been known to 
come to our lighthouse,* but this migration only produced four, 
two of which were on October Utli, when I was in the lighthouse 
for several hours, but they did not turn up until I had left. With 
them aiipeared an (Jwl, which was supposed to be trying to catch 
them. 
ihe t.reater .Spotted A\'oodi>ecker remained more than three 
weeks, and Avas often to bo seen on some rustic palings close to a 
house, the surtace-bark of which was denuded for several yanls in 
Its search for insects. It Avas the only example I heard of, of a 
species sometimes A^ery frequent, and which I have more than once 
seen, passing over fields on migration in autumn, at Cromer. 
On October 12th I found any amount of Thrushes in the low 
scrub on the .sand lulls at Hlakeney, most likely a large arrival that 
very morning. Every little bush w.as full of them, and, as thev 
seemed rather small and dark, some Avere shot to make sure 
what they were. These dark, foreign Thrushes have been often 
noticed in Lincolnshire by ]\tr. J, Cordeaux, but Avhen one has 
them in the hand there is not so very much difference. 
On December Gth I received a notice from Mr. C. Ik Whittv of 
a M axwiiig shot at Holme, but the only examples killed in "our 
neighbourhood were one sent to my father on the 15th from 
Palling, and two shot about the same time at Sherringham out of a 
n the first of tliose three valuaMe reports on migration, drawn up 
AAith so.nnich care and labour, by Messrs. HarAie-Brown and Cordean.x 
L S ''""if ’ lighthouse is credited Avith arrivals of 
rens on Alay 2.trd, May 27th, and Sept. 12th {U. p. 176). I imagine 
from the fact that the name of » Wren ” is applied very indefinitely by the 
iincipa , AAho has made no speciality of Ornitliolog)*, that in this case 
Goldcrests are intended, and not the real Troglodytes parvulu^. 
