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1336 7th. Are the lapwings migratory ? Do many arrive from the north in the beginning of winter and return thither in March ?

8th. Is there ever any influx of golden plovers into the district ?

I have carefully perused the many excellent 'Lists of Birds' which have appeared in this magazine with reference to the subject of migra- tion, but I have not found much information of the kind. However, Mr. Briggs, Melbourne, Derbyshire (Zool. 657), has accurately pointed out the annual increase of the song-thrushes in November, and their departure in spring, but the Rev. G. Gordon (Zool. 506), states that this bird is a permanent resident in Morayshire, and according to Professor Macgillivray, they brave the severity of a Hebridean win- ter, haunting the shores, and feeding on Turbo littoreus and Trochus conuloides : they are migratory in Upper Lanarkshire, and from the same author I learn that the lapT.ng is also a permanent resident in the same stormy regions. I ought to have stated that Motacilla Boarula, though found here during winter, is by no means so abun- dant as at other seasons, there is a marked decrease in October, and an influx in March or April after the pied species appear. Mr. Briggs has a note on the partial migration of the skylark and pipit (Zool. 657), and I feel assured that this gentleman, whose polite attention to the inquiries of Mr. Jerdon regarding the song-thrush, has enabled me to give additional interest to this paper, will in like manner favour his fellow labourers with such notes on the subject under discussion as his journal afibrds.