REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. EIGHTH REPORT, 1886. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY M'FARLANE & ERSKINE, 14 and 19 ST JAMES SQUARE. 1887. Price Two Shillings. REPORT ON THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS IN THE SPRING AND AUTUMN OF 1886. BY Mr J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, Mr J. CORDEAUX, Mr R. M. BARRINGTON, Mr A. G. MORE, AND Mr W. EAGLE CLARKE. EIGHTH REPORT. (Vol. II, No. 3.) EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY M'FARLANE & ERSKINE, 14 and 19 ST JAMES SQUARE. 1887. PREFACE. The following Report contains a summary of the investigations of a Committee reappointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Birmingham, in 1886, to consist of Professor Newton, Mr J. A. Harvie-Brown, Mr John Cordeaux, Mr W. Eagle Clarke, Mr R. M. Barrington, and Mr A. G. More, for the purpose of obtaining (with the consent of the Master and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, the Commissioners of Northern Lights, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights) observations on the Migrations of Birds at Lighthouses and Lightships, and of reporting on the same at Manchester in 1887. Mr Cordeaux to be the Secretary. The returns relating to Scotland have been arranged by Mr 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 and Mr A. G. More. CONTENTS. PAGE East Coast of Scotland, 1 East Coast of England, 27 West Coast of Scotland, 54 West Coast of England and Wales, and the Isle of Man, 79 Irish Coasts, 119 [Illustration] LIST OF STATIONS.