27th, W., fresh, clear; evening and night, stormy. No. 8, S.W.—Nothing. Great many Lar. minutus.
28th, S.W., stormy. No. 8, storm warning.—Nothing. Great many Lar. minutus.
29th, W., violent, hail and snow squalls.—Nothing. Great many Lar. minutus.
30th, northerly, fresh to violent; evening, N.W., little wind.—Al. alpestris, pretty numerous, flights of twenty and thereabout passing on the whole day.
31st, S.S.W., violent, thick; afternoon and all night, thick fog.—Nothing.
Heligoland—Spring, 1886.
March 19th, S.E., 4 deg. below zero.—Corvus frugilegus, pretty numerous; cornix, a few. Sturnus, do. Al. arvensis, great many, enormous passage over sea.
Mem.—At Hanover astounding numbers of "Crows," and great flights of Ch. vanellus.
20th, S.S.E., little wind, overcast; afternoon, thawing; evening, fog.—F. æsalon and tinnunculus, some. C. frugilegus, thousands; cornix, less. Sturnus, merula, musicus, iliacus, all passing on. Al. arvensis, hundreds of thousands; alpestris and arboreus, a few. Anth. pratensis, great many; rupestris, less. F. cannabina, some flights. Ch. auratus, vanellus, hiaticula, all great many. Fr. alpina, less. Scol. gallinago, several. Col. palumbus, some. Enormous masses passing on across the sea.
Hanover.—Crows, Larks, Wood Pigeons, Ch. vanellus, all in enormous numbers. Ch. auratus, less.