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appearance being the following day in Ayrshire and the Isle 

 of Man ! Between April 23 and 30 it was also reported from 

 — 23rd, Flint (North Wales), Gloucester, Montgomery 

 (North Wales), and Notts; 24th, Tyrone (Ireland); 27th, 

 Denbigh and Yorkshire ; 29th, Shropshire and Warwick ; 

 the latest arrivals being May 4, Cheshire and Mid-Lothian. 



From the many hundreds of records sent me in regard to 

 the cuckoo, it is evident that the general date of arrival was 

 between the i8th and 22nd April. It usually arrives from 

 Central Africa and Southern India — its winter quarters — 

 about the middle of April. The 7th of that month is the 

 earliest date on my list, when it occurred in Cumberland, 

 Essex, and Kent. On the 8th the bird was recorded from 

 Sussex, and in the following order elsewhere : 9th, Glouces- 

 ter, Herts, and Yorkshire ; loth, Bedford, Hants, and Sur- 

 rey ; nth, Leicester and Notts; 12th, Oxford; 13th, 

 Devon ; 15th, Somerset and Suffolk ; i6th, Berks and 

 Norfolk ; 17th, Dorset, Lincoln, and Shropshire ; iSth, 

 Bucks, Isle of Wight, and Worcester ; 19th, Cambridge, 

 Derby, Isle of Man, Northampton, Pembroke, Rutland, 

 Stafford, and Wilts ; 20th, Cardigan, Hereford, Middlesex, 

 and Warwick ; 21st, Cornwall, Kerry (Ireland), and Mont- 

 gomery (North Wales) ; 22nd, Ayrshire, Cheshire, and 

 Glamorgan ; 23rd, Yorkshire ; 29th, Haddington (Scot- 

 land) ; and lastly, on May 4, in Mid-Lothian. 



Only one solitary record of the appearance of the stone- 

 curlew reached me, and that from Elveden, Suffolk, where it 

 appeared on April 9. Its winter quarters are temperate 

 Europe, Northern Africa, and South-Western Asia, and it 

 generally arrives some time in April, though occasionally as 

 early as March. 



The turtle-dove winters in Northern Africa, Egypt, and 

 Nubia, and may usually be looked for the latter part of April. 

 Worcestershire holds the earliest record for 1901, the date 

 being April 19, and between the 20th and the 29th of the 

 month it was reported as follows : 20th, Somerset ; 23rd, 

 Essex, Kent, and Surrey ; 24th, Berks ; 27th, Oxford ; 28th, 

 Herts ; 29th, Sussex ; Warwick being the latest date sent in 

 — namely, May 3. 



The spotted flycatcher is apparently little known, four 

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