MIGRATION AND OTHER ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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ing six or seven Little Auks were picked up on or near the 
shore, some dead, some alive. 
On one years observations it is risky to say anything about 
the influence of weather on migration, but it may be noted 
that the direction of the wind did not seem to have any 
influence on the coastal migration, migration being seen with 
the wind in practically every quarter. In the same way, 
immigrants were observed arriving by day in autumn with 
the wind with them, against them, and on almost every 
quarter. 
On October 15th the largest coastal migration of the year 
was seen and the wind at the time was E.-S.-E. 6 , and even 
on October 13th and 14th, with the wind N.-E. 6 and E. 6 , 
immigrants were observed coming in from the East and 
E.-S.-E. 
Of more importance is the consideration of the weather 
conditions at the point of departure, and here again I find 
that during the spring of 1911 the direction of the wind made 
no difference to the departure of birds from our shore, nor 
did it influence in any way coastal migration. On March 2nd 
a flock of Rooks and Daws was seen going east, with the 
wind blowing from N.-W. 7 ; however, on the 28th some were 
seen to attempt the journey eastwards against an East wind, 
strength 5 — 6, and after going a mile or so over the sea to 
return to the fields they started from ; this same shirking of 
the journey was also invariably brought about by haze or fog 
out at sea. 
I could not make out that the wind had any influence on 
the arrival of our summer visitors. 
My best thanks are due to Mr. Cook, of Lowestoft, and to 
Mr. Quinton, of Yarmouth, for many interesting records of 
migration. I have been also favoured with a few notes from 
Messrs. Patterson and Woods, of Yarmouth. 
