Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1880. [Second Report]

by J. A. Harvie-Brown; John Cordeaux; P. M. C. Kermode

PREFACE.

The following Report contains a Summary of the investigations of a Committee appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Swansea in 1880, an Abstract of which will be presented to the Association at its next Meeting.

The Returns relating to Scotland have been arranged by Mr. Harvie-Brown; those for the East Coast of England, by Mr. Cordeaux; and the West Coast of England, by Mr. Philip Kermode.

REPORT
ON THE
MIGRATION OF BIRDS
IN THE
SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1880.

"I am fixing correspondents in every corner of these northern regions, like so many pickets and outposts; so that scarcely a Wren or a Tit shall be able to pass from York to Canada but I shall get intelligence of it."—Alexander Wilson, in 1808. (Vide Constable's Edition, 1831, p. xlix.)