. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. 268 IIEPOIIT— five li;j;li<vi'SHt'ls, liavinp; no cnmmmiicatloii with cacli other, importing the saiTio cii'cnmstaiu't's, proves the correctness of the observations. On the east coast of Scotland Mr. J. A. Harvie-lJrown says that the autumn migration of IH8;{ was pronounced, culminating in a grand rush from October 2Sth to November ',]vA. The heaviest rush of b
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. 268 IIEPOIIT— five li;j;li<vi'SHt'ls, liavinp; no cnmmmiicatloii with cacli other, importing the saiTio cii'cnmstaiu't's, proves the correctness of the observations. On the east coast of Scotland Mr. J. A. Harvie-lJrown says that the autumn migration of IH8;{ was pronounced, culminating in a grand rush from October 2Sth to November ',]vA. The heaviest rush of birds, as corn- pared with other years, was observed at the Isle of May on October J iUIi and 14th. Tiiis was with a south wind, although as a rule it is a south- east wind at that point wliich brings the greatest llights. In the autumn of 1SS2, on the cast coast of Scotland, the bulk of immigrants arc recorded at the southern stations; in IHhio these coudi- lions were reversed, the bulk being rc(!orded from northern stations. On the east coast of England, in LSM:!, birds a[)pcar to have been vcvy e(iually distributed over the whole ooast-line. Jt will bo gathered from the (leneral Report that the dates of the rushes on the east coast of Scotland were slightly later than (hose on the east coast of England, and that tlie migrations past the more northerly stations in Scotland were in propor- tion later than in the south, and also that the dates of the heaviest ruslics on the east coast iigne fairly with the dates from tnO west coast. From the coasts of Ireland Messrs. A. G. More and li. M. Ijarringtou report a decided improvement in filling up the schedules, in some ca.'^os three or four being returned from the same station. Forty-tsvo stations were supplied witli schedules in the spring of 1883 and thirty-five in tlio autumn of the same year, returns coming in from thirty-four, one only failing. The number of migra,nts in the autumn seems to have been more than A great rush
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