_Note._--According to the weather in the morning, there ought to have been considerable migration--Thrushes and Woodcocks but prominent westerly currents in higher regions acted adverse.
During the night to 16th, extraordinary strong migration of Larks, Thrushes, Starlings, _Numenius_ and _Charadrius_; also _Strix otus_ (?) was present, and robbed on the wing at light fire, especially _T. musicus_.
16th, E. and E. by S., violent, thick, low clouds S.E.; in evening, light, E., uniform thick, damp.--Early, six to seven, yet extremely strong migration of Thrushes, Larks, Finches, and Starlings. _F. peregrinus_, _æsalon_, _tinnunculus_, and _nisus_, strayed. _Str. otus_, some. _Lan. excubitor_, a couple. _T. musicus_, many during forenoon; _iliacus_ and _pilaris_, many during day. _Sturnus_, very many. _Sy. rubecula_, pretty many, besides no _Sylviæ_ and _accentor_, _Regulus flavicapillus_, pretty many. _Anth. pratensis_, many. _Richardi_, some. _Emb. schœniclus_, early, many. _Pusilla_, one. _Al. arvensis_, very many; _alpestris_, the same. _Fr. cœlebs_ and _montifringilla_, many; _cannabina_, fewer. _Par. major_, pretty many. _Scolopax_, none. In the afternoon, from 5 to 6, a bat flew about in the garden, chasing.
17th, northerly, light, quite thick, with rain, low loose clouds, slowly from N.W. and N.; after midnight, dead calm.--During the early hours until 9 o'clock, extremely large flights of Thrushes, flying about high, just as if bad weather was approaching. _F. tinnunculus_ and _nisus_, some. _Corvus_ and _Sturnus_, few. _T. musicus_ and _torquatus_, extraordinary many during the whole of the day; _merula_, _iliacus_, and _viscivorus_, fewer. _Sy. rufa_, many; _rubecula_, extremely many. _Accentor_, none. _Regulus_, many. _Anthus pratensis_, many. _Alauda_, very few. _Emb. citrinella_ and _schœniclus_, some. _Fr. cœlebs_ and _montifringilla_, many, the latter very many. _Linaria_, some. _Spinus_, many. _Par. major_, pretty many. _Scol. rusticula_, twenty to thirty shot. _Gallinago_, pretty many. _Rallus aquaticus_, some.
18th, N.N.W., slight, overcast, easterly, horizon clear; P.M., high cirri from E. by N., light, sunny, low clouds lazy from N.N.W.--_F. æsalon_, scattered; _nisus_, some. _Str. brachyotus_, few. _Corvus_, very single. _Sturnus_, some flights. _Lan. excubitor_, one. _Turd. musicus_ and _torquatus_, many. _Merula_, _iliacus_, _viscivorus_, and _pilaris_, tolerable. _Sy. rubecula_ and _rufa_, as _Regulus_, pretty many. _Accentor_, some. _Anth. pratensis_ and _rupestris_, pretty many. _Al. arvensis_ and _alpestris_, fewer. _Emb. schœniclus_, tolerable; _nivalis_, some. _Par. major_, pretty many. _Fringilla_, not many. _Linaria_, twenty to thirty; some _spinus_. _Col. palumbus_, some. _Scol. rusticula_, about thirty shot. _Gallinula_ and _gallinago_, several. About eve a bat flying about in the garden, besides two observed.