. British birds. Birds. OTES. AUTUMN MIGRATION ACROSS THE IRISH SEA. Crossing to Holyhead from Dublin (Kingstown), on November 7th, 1921, I witnessed a well-marked east to west migration along the steamer route. The distance from harbour to harbour is, I believe, 64 miles, and the passage was accomplished in exactly two hours and forty minutes. We cast off at Kingstown at At , when off The Kish Lightship, a flock of Starlings {Sturnus vulgaris), consisting of about a dozen individuals, passed us, flying low, and heading straight up Dublin Bay instead of for the nearest land which
. British birds. Birds. OTES. AUTUMN MIGRATION ACROSS THE IRISH SEA. Crossing to Holyhead from Dublin (Kingstown), on November 7th, 1921, I witnessed a well-marked east to west migration along the steamer route. The distance from harbour to harbour is, I believe, 64 miles, and the passage was accomplished in exactly two hours and forty minutes. We cast off at Kingstown at At , when off The Kish Lightship, a flock of Starlings {Sturnus vulgaris), consisting of about a dozen individuals, passed us, flying low, and heading straight up Dublin Bay instead of for the nearest land which was Howth Head. At intervals of, roughly, half an hour four more large and medium-sized flocks were encountered all heading west, and flying fron> 10 to 50 feet above the sea. Near mid-channel two flocks (one dense) of Finches were passed, flying low, in the same direction, followed by a solitary Jackdaw {Colceus monedula) struggling along just above the waves. Coming up to The Stack two or three Greenfinches {Chlofis chloris) passed, going out to sea, and also a couple of Rooks (Corviisfrttgilegus). There was a cold breeze blowing when we left Kingstown, which stiffened into a nasty " nor'-wester " off Holyhead, accompanied by showers of sleet, and a waterspout, an unusual phenomenon in these latitudes, which was visible about seven miles away on the starboard beam. As I was onty watching from the sheltered starboard side I am unable to say what passed us on the weather side. H. A. F. Magrath. WOOD-LARK BREEDING IN RADNORSHIRE. So far as I am aware the Wood-Lark {Lullnla a. arhorea) has not yet been recorded as breeding in Radnorshire, and therefore it may be interesting to record that in May 1920 I found near Knighton a Wood-Lark's rest with an addled egg. Also on May 8th, 1921, I found a nest containing three young within three miles of the 1920 nest. Further, I located another pair midway between these two sites, but owing to my subsequent absence from th
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