Category: Science - Biology
"A good practical naturalist must be a good observer; and how many qualities are required to make up a good observer! Attention, patience, quickness to seize separate facts, discrimination to keep them unconfused, readiness to combine them, and rapidity and yet slowness of ind...
In autumn, in July, all the records are of Rooks, all at one station, _viz._, Pentland Skerries, and in each case birds remaining on island all day; winds moderate N., cloudy or...
2. Part 2In autumn the migration was pronounced, and confined principally to October and November. Yet the earliest record we have yet received in Scotland in our schedules occurred on A...
8. Part 8Falconidæ.--A Falcon flying N., at Kyleakin, in February; a Hawk at Dhuheartach, flying round on 19th April, where in autumn they make daily visits, and even in some seasons all...
4. Part 4In November and December the greatest movements are noticed, which I give in detail:--Nov. 2nd, Pentland Skerries, several Kittiwakes flying S.E., noon; fresh S.W. Nov. 10th, Is...
5. Part 5_M. lugubris_, Pied Wagtail.--Spring, Whitby L.H., March 31st, two pairs. Farn L.H., April 2nd, one; 4th to 14th, many. Flamborough, April 11th, a pair. Autumn, Cromer L.H., Aug...
12. Part 12_Arranmore._--January, thirty-six Barnacle; these birds have remained all the winter; have not done so for years before. Feb. 4th, twenty-two. March 2nd, two flocks passing. Sep...
10. Part 10_Tuskar Rock._--Feb. 24th and 25th, Thrushes during day and night, some struck; fog and mist. Oct. 9th and 10th, Thrushes all night; a great number killed and disabled. Oct. 27t...
11. Part 11_Coningbeg Light-ship._--May 9th, flocks of Starlings, 6 a.m., flying N.E. Oct. 28th and 29th, flocks about ship, nights gloomy, seven killed, but many struck and fell overboard...
6. Part 6_Charadrius pluvialis_, Golden Plover.--Farn L.H., July 27th, five to E., and on Aug. 20th, flock to W.; numerous on island through August and September, moving to and from the...
7. Part 7Cockle L.V., Feb. 22nd to March 31st, Black Crows, Ducks, Jackdaws, Starlings, Larks, Lapwings, "Snow-birds" to W. On March 20th, 24th, and 26th, Black Crows or Rooks continuous...
9. Part 9+-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Date. | 1884. Mar. 31. | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Locali...
1. Part 1"A good practical naturalist must be a good observer; and how many qualities are required to make up a good observer! Attention, patience, quickness to seize separate facts, dis...