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REPORT
ON THE
MIGRATION OF BIRDS
IN THE
SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1883.
BY
Mr. J. A. HARVIE BROWN, Mr. J. CORDEAUX,
Mr. R. M. BARRINGTON, and Mr. A. G. MORE.
FIFTH REPORT.
"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.
1884.
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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 Southport, in 1883, to consistof 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 Montreal, Canada, in 1884. Mr. Cordeaux to be theSecretary.
The returns relating to Scotland have been arranged byMr. J. A. Harvie Brown; for the East Coast of England,by Mr. Cordeaux; and those for the Coasts of Ireland, byMr. R. M. Barrington and Mr. A. G. More. No return hasbeen received by the Committee from the West Coast ofEngland and the Isle of Man.
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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| East Coast of Scotland | 1 |
| East Coast of England | 33 |
| West Coast of Scotland | 63 |
| Coasts of Ireland | 82 |
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FIFTH REPORT
ON
THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS
IN THE
SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1883.
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