Schedules were sent to thirty-eight stations, lighthouses and light-vessels, on the East Coast of England, and returns have been received from twenty-six.

Independent reports have been received from Malmo, Sweden; Stevns Fyr (lighthouse of Stevns), Zealand; and from Heligoland. Also from several land stations on the East Coast, namely Northumberland coast, Seaton-Carew, Redcar, Flamborough, Spurn, Great Cotes (Lincolnshire), Blakeney and Cley, Wells and Cromer (Norfolk), Yarmouth and the Isle of Thanet; altogether thirty-seven reporting stations against thirty-five in 1883. The total number of schedules sent in is seventy, a considerable increase on previous years, and the labour of arranging, tabulating and reporting thereon has been considerably increased.

The schedules received from the light-keepers are very satisfactory; they register an immense amount of special information relating to the passage of migrants in the spring and autumn of 1884; the entries are so numerous, and the mass of materials so large, that it is impossible to give more than the general results of the collected observations.

The notes from land stations, courteously placed at our disposal by independent observers, many of whom are practical ornithologists of long standing and repute, add greatly to the value of the report, and go far to establish the approximate correctness of the details as given in the separate remarks on each species.

Our thanks are due to Frank K. Newton, Professor H. Lütken, H. Gätke, T. H. Nelson, C. Donald Thompson, Matthew Bailey, W. Eagle Clarke, the Rev. H. H. Slater, Philip Lawton, J. H. Gurney, J. F. D. Power, M. Vaughan, and Lord Clifton, for kind co-operation and assistance, either in direct communication or by access to their unpublished field notes, some of which will probably subsequently appear in the Journals and Proceedings of various Natural History Societies.

The greatest number of schedules received from any one station are nine from Mr. Thomas H. Cutting of the Inner Farn Lighthouse, and four from Mr. Owen Boyle of the Languard Lighthouse.

The east coast stations included in this report are as follows, those making returns being marked with a star (*):—

*Longstone L.H.†Thomas O. Hall.
*Inner Farn L.H.Thomas H. Cutting.
*Tees L.V.Henry Harbord.
*Coquet Island L.H.William Evans.
*Whitby High L.H.John Odgers.
*Flamborough Head L.H.Charles Hood.
*Spurn L.H.James B. Smith.
Spurn L.V.
*Outer Dowsing L.V.J. N. Utting & W. Stock.
*Inner Dowsing L.V.William King.
*Dudgeon L.V.John F. Warder.
Llyn Wells L.V.
*Hunstanton L.H.William Westmoreland.
*Cromer L.H.C. H. Overton.
*Leman & Ower L.V.John Artis & John Bowen.
Hasbro' L.H.
*Hasbro' L.V.J. Nicholas & B. V. Darnell.
*Newarp L.V.C. Campbell & W. Rees.
*Winterton L.H.John Watson.
*Cockle L.V.Charles Perfrement & E. Cole.
*Orfordness L.H.W. Willey Woodruffe.
*Corton L.V.Isaac H. Johnson.
*Shipwash L.V.Thos. Rundell Martin.
*Languard Point L.H.Owen Boyle.
Galloper L.V.
*Kentish Knock L.V.Samuel Pender & W. Elsdon.
Swin Middle L.V.
Tongue L.V.
Nore L.V.
North Foreland L.H.
*Goodwin L.V.J. Rees.
*Gull L.V.Francis Harvey & J. Jenkins.
South Sand Head L.V.
*East Side L.V.Edward le Gallais & W. Nicholls.
*Varne L.V.J. Jacobs.
South Foreland L.H.
Casquets L.H.
*Hanois L.H. (Guernsey)Geo. Freeman, C. Williams, & F. G. Cutting.

SEPARATE NOTES ON EACH SPECIES.

Turdus viscivorus, Mistletoe Thrush.—Great Cotes, Sept. 23rd, great many young on passage. Redcar, Oct. 4th, 8 a.m. [N.W. 5], flocks coming in. Longstone L.H., Nov. 12th, a few; Dec. 9th, a few; and Jan. 4th, 1855, some. Heligoland, Oct. 7th, one; Nov. 22nd, several along with Blackbirds, Fieldfares, and Ring Ouzels, wind W., strong, with snow squalls.