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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
December, 1886, at 9 a.m., two passed to Essex shore and
remained about till noon.
Hooded Crow Corvus cornix cornix L. Carrion-Crow Corvus
corone corone L. Rook. Corvus frugilegus frugilegus L. Jackdaw.
Coloeus monedula spermologus (Vieill.).
Movements at light-stations.
1879. South of the Humber the migration of Rooks was
noted at nearly every station as either Rooks or Black Crows
to distinguish them from the Hoodie or Grey Crow. Both
Rooks and Hooded Crows appear to have started simultaneously
on 15th October and passed across the North Sea from E. to W.
in almost continuous flocks on the 16th and 17th, and after
these dates in more scattered detachments, less and less to 19th
November and again during the latter part of December.
1880. Hooded Crow : At Galloper L.V. 24th October to
9th November, many flocks ; at Swin Middle L.V., 22nd
October, noon to 3 p.m., with Rooks. Rook : Enormous as
have been the numbers of Crows crossing the North Sea the
Rook has probably quite equalled them. The Rooks are
recorded from Spurn to the South Foreland, the majority into
the southern counties. Each (Crows and Rooks), however, came
from and travelled to the same points of the compass, E. to W.
or N.E. to S.W., or S.E. and S. to S.W. Jackdaw : at Galloper
L.V. 17th October, at 7.45 a.m., Rooks and Daws, three to four
hundred.
1881. Hooded Crow : In the autumn are recorded at nearly
all our stations from the Inner Farne to the Goodwins. There
was a great arrival also on the English coast on the nights or
early mornings of 18th and 19th October, at north, middle and
south-east stations. Rook : in the autumn at some mid and
south-east stations. Great rush 17th and 18th October, also
25th to 27th same month.
1882. Hooded Crow : Orfordness L.H., 19th September,
first seen. In large numbers through October and November,
at stations from Fame Islands to Goodwin L.V. ; great rush 11th
and 13th. As a rule, few Hooded Crows cross south of Landguard
Point and few Carrion Crows north of Spurn. Rook : Sparingly
north of the Humber and in large numbers at the southern
stations throughout October and November and on to the middle
of December.