_Menai_ L.H.--Flocks of Linnets, Starlings, and Crows on the shore at 7
A.M.
_Skerries_ L.H.--Three dozen Starlings and Larks killed at 10 P.M.
_Holyhead Breakwater_ L.H.--A Starling and Goldcrest captured at 9 P.M.
_South Stack_ L.H.--A great number of Blackbirds, Thrushes, Starlings,
and Larks; also one Goldcrest, one Robin, and one Chaffinch flying
around the lantern from 8 P.M. to midnight.
_Carnarvon Bay_ L.V.--Starlings, Finches, and Larks at sunrise; many
caught on deck. (N.E., 3; C. M.)
_Bardsey_ L.H.--"Eighty Blackbirds and about fifty Thrushes killed at
lantern."
_Cardigan Bay_ L.V.--One Rook and two Chaffinches at 11.30 A.M.
_Smalls_ L.H.--One Corncrake killed at lantern.
_Scarweather_ L.V.--Six Larks, three dozen Sparrows, and three dozen
Linnets passed N.E. between 8.30 and 10.30 A.M.
_Nash_ L.H.--Two Skylarks killed at 10 P.M., and eleven Starlings
killed between 10 and 10.30 P.M.
October 21st.
_Langness_ L.H.--A Woodlark at 1 A.M. on lantern. Five Swallows at 9.30
A.M. flying S.W.
_Selker_ L.V.--Blackbirds, Thrushes, Larks, and other birds, unknown,
around the lantern until daylight this morning; many killed.
_Morecambe Bay_ L.V.--Six Blackbirds, eleven "Titlarks," and five
Skylarks flying S. during the forenoon.
_Carnarvon Bay_ L.V.--Blackbirds, Thrushes, Starlings, and Snipe. One
Blackbird, six Thrushes, and one Snipe found dead at 5 A.M.
_Helwick_ L.V.--Six to eight dozen Larks passing S. at 11 A.M.
_Nash_ L.H.--Two Song Thrushes killed at 9.30 P.M. four Redwings killed
between 9 and 11 P.M. (N., 4; C. M.)
_Start Point_ L.H.--One "Titlark" at 8.30 P.M.
October 23d.
_Helwick_ L.V.--Two Thrushes and a female Blackbird killed at 3 A.M.
_Nash_ L.H.--A Woodcock killed at 2 A.M.
_Godrevy_ L.H.--A great number of Redwings, Thrushes, and Starlings all
night; some of each killed. (E., 6; G. M. P.)
_Longships_ L.H.--Scores of Starlings and Thrushes all night; a great
number striking.
Weather for Week, 24th to 31st October.
Conditions not pronounced. During earlier portion of week the
weather dull, and at times wet over the southern and south-western
parts of the United Kingdom, fine but rather foggy elsewhere; later
on the rain spread northwards over England and Ireland, and the
wind veered from E. to S.E. and S., with a rise of temperature and
damp, close air. Pressure highest over Sweden and the Baltic, and,
as a rule, lowest over the Bay of Biscay and off our south-western
coasts, the gradients for easterly winds being steepest on the
25th. Two depressions appeared, the second of which, apparently
larger but not a deep system, approached the Irish Coasts on the
30th, and, moving northwards, caused freshening southerly winds and
rain in the west; while light southerly breezes were felt at the
eastern station, with very mild but dull and damp weather.--(From
Weekly Summary, "Daily Weather Report," November 2d, 1886.)
October 24th.
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