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and Greater Whitethroats, and this company probably arrived with 
a light wind from the north. On the 13th, the day before they 
were noticed, the wind was light N. On the 12th it W'as light X.E. 
or E.KE., and on the 11th it Avas hl.X.E. 
On the 17tli the wind Avas N.E., and they probably loft Blakenej% 
and, migrating against it, got as far as Yarmouth or LoAvestoft 
denes. On the ISth, it Avas S., and pursuing the coast soutliAA^ards 
tlioy most likely crossed the Channel. On the 19th Mr. PoAver 
noted that birds of all kinds Avore very scarce at Blakeney, remark- 
ing in a letter to mo that ho had never seen the place more blank.* 
Iho two birds shot by Mr. Power on the 22nd, at Blakeney, 
Avero, I imagine, a later arrival ; and if, as is most probable, they 
came on tlio previous day, it Avas Avitli a Avest Avind, i.e., a contrary 
wind.t 
On the .same day a Bluethroat Avas shot on the eoast of 
hloi thumberland, as I learn from ^fr. 1'. II. Archery and the dav 
before, one Avas identified, but not shot, at Teesmouth. + 
Later than the 22nd avo have no note of their appearance at 
Blakeney. IMr. I’oAA'er AV'as out on the 23rd, 21th, and 2.oth, and 
saAv none. I was ov'er the .same grouiul on the 29th, and met 
Avith no better luck. It hoAvover does not necessarily folloAv that 
they had all passed on. Another is said to have been obtained 
much later, in Northumberland, the o.xact date of Avhich I could 
not procure. 
'I'ho only otlier Bluethroat I hoard of Avas on the Isle of May,— 
the earliest of all, — for a knoAvledge of Avhich I am indebteil 
to ]\rr. J. A. Ilarvic-BroAvn, Avho informs mo it AA'as seen on 
* Dr. Babington’s Bluethroat, obtained at Yarmouth, Avas shot on the 
morning of the 15th, the day after they Avere first noticed at Blakeney, and 
AA’as probably a solitary bird which had separated from the flock, as ^Ir. 
LoAvne, the birdstufter, went out the same afternoon, at my request, to the 
place where it was killed, and could see no others. 
t .Mr. John Cordeaux, Avho has paid great attention to migration on the 
east coast, considers that it may be laid down as an axiom, that, with 
southerly or AA esterly winds, not amounting to gales, normal migration to our 
cast coast in autumn is the rule (see ‘Report on Migration,’ ISSl, p. 39). 
No Avind at all suits small birds best. It seems, when bent on migration, 
they will make the passage with a light cross wind, but very rarely indeed 
Avith a wind which is due in their fiiA-our. 
X These were recorded in the ‘ Field.’ 
