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REPORT
ON THE
MIGRATION OF BIRDS
IN THE
SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1884.
BY
Mr. J. A. HARVIE BROWN, Mr. J. CORDEAUX,Mr. R. M. BARRINGTON, Mr. G. A. MORE,
AND
Mr. W. EAGLE CLARKE.
SIXTH REPORT.
(Vol. II., No. 1.)
"A good practical naturalist must be a good observer; and how many qualitiesare required to make up a good observer! Attention, patience, quickness to seizeseparate facts, discrimination to keep them unconfused, readiness to combine them,and rapidity and yet slowness of induction; above all, perfect fidelity, which can beseduced neither by the enticements of a favourite theory nor by the temptation tosee a little more than actually happens in some passing drama."—Essays, BishopWilberforce, Vol. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WEST, NEWMAN & CO., 54, HATTON GARDEN.
1885.
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PREFACE.
The following Report contains a summary of investigationsof the Committee re-appointed by the British Association forthe Advancement of Science, at Montreal, Canada, in 1884, toconsist of Professor Newton, Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown, Mr. JohnCordeaux, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, Mr. R. M. Barrington, andMr. A. G. More, for the purpose of obtaining (with theconsent of the Master and Elder Brethren of the TrinityHouse, the Commissioners of Northern Lights, and the Commissionersof Irish Lights) observations on the Migration ofBirds at Lighthouses and Lightships, and of reporting on thesame at Aberdeen in 1885. Mr. Cordeaux to be the Secretary.
The returns relating to Scotland have been arranged byMr. J. A. Harvie Brown; for the East Coast of England,by Mr. Cordeaux; for the West Coast of England, by Mr. W.Eagle Clarke; and those for the Coasts of Ireland, by Mr. R. M.Barrington, Mr. A. G. More, and Mr. Eagle Clarke.
Having obtained an additional grant from the BritishAssociation, we venture this year to add a new feature to ourReport in the form of a sketch-map, showing all the stations inred. We have done this at the intelligent request of several ofour reporters; and the map has been executed for us by Messrs.Macfarlane & Erskine, of St. James' Square, Edinburgh.
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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Ocean Notes | 1 |
| East Coast of Scotland | 10 |
| East Coast of England | 39 |
| West Coast of Scotland | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |