20th, N. by E., slight, quite cloudy, rain showers; later, N.E., almost clear; in evening, clear, light.—Very little, more migration across the sea. Corvus, few. Sturnus, many. Turdus, very few. Sy. rubecula and rufa, few. Al. arvensis, pretty many; alpestris, very many, in flights of thirty to fifty. Woodcocks, but a few.
21st, westerly, light, and rain showers.—Very slight migration. Sturnus, pretty large flights. Lan. excubitor, one. Turdus, very few. Woodcocks, early, very many, 150 to 200 captured.
22d, E. and E. by N, light, clear, scattered clouds; in evening, highest clouds from N., middle W., low, loose, hasty clouds from E. by S.—F. peregrinus, a couple. Corv. cornix and monedula, not many. Sturnus, early flights of 2000 to 3000. Turdus, but few. Anthus, not many. Al. arvensis, few; alpestris, many. Emb. citrinella, some. Fringillæ, the same. Some Col. palumbus and Woodcocks.
The westerly currents in middle stratum of air may have acted unfavourably on migration.
23d, E. by S., fresh, light clouds from S.E.; in evening, E.S.E., very fresh; clouds hasty from S.E., at 9 o'clock, thick, overcast.—F. peregrinus and æsalon, some. C. cornix, very many; frugilegus, in afternoon, flights of several hundreds. Sturnus, single flights. Sy. rubecula and rufa, but strayed. Reg. flavicapillus, pretty many, but yet no pyrocephalus. Anth. pratensis and rupestris, pretty many. Al. arvensis, few; alpestris, many; brachydactyla, one shot, No Thrushes and but a few Woodcocks.
24th, early, S.S.E., violent, thick rain; 10 A.M., S.; P.M., S.S.W., rain, clear to northward.—Early and forenoon, nothing; afternoon, during calm, T. merula, Sturnus, Fr. cœlebs, and a few Woodcocks.
25th, S.W. and W.S.W., fresh, light, rain showers; in evening, lighter.—Nothing.
26th, S.W. to S. by W., violent, thick rain; P.M., very stormy, No. 8; in night, W. and W.N.W., No. 8.—Minimum, west, Scotland; stormy westerly winds in Nordsea. Almost nothing; very strayed single seasonable birds. Al. alpestris and Emb. nivalis, the most.
27th, W., lighter; during day, rain and hail squalls; P.M., W.N.W. and N.W., lighter betwixt squalls.—Nothing; two to three Woodcocks.
28th, early, N.W., No. 7, rain and hail squalls; noon, S.W., clear, high cirri and little clouds from E. by S.; in evening, W,, lighter.—Nothing; early, few merula, young birds. Pretty many Al. alpestris, and one flight Emb. nivalis.