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were — April 7, Somerset ; 8th, Hants, Surrey, and Sussex ; 

 gth, Gloucester; loth, Northampton and Stafford; nth, 

 Norfolk ; 14th, Herts and Worcester ; 15th, Warwick ; 

 i8th, Ayrshire ; 19th, Cambridge; 21st, Montgomery (North 

 Wales); 24th, Mid-Lothian ; 30th, Tyrone (Ireland). 



The rarer wood-warbler usually visits us the end of April 

 or early in May, its winter quarters being the same as the 

 last named. I identified it in Herts on April 14, and subse- 

 quent records were — April 22, Berks; 25th, Oxford and 

 Somerset; 30th, Tyrone (Ireland); May i, Ayrshire. 



The wheatear may generally be expected from its winter 

 home (Western and Northern Africa to Persia and Northern 

 India) the end of March. On March 17 it was seen in 

 Sussex for the first time ; 26th, Hants ; 31st, Somerset. 

 Other records were — April 2, Stafford ; 3rd, Herts and 

 Wilts; 4th, Oxford and Suffolk; 5th, Cheshire; 6th, Ayr- 

 shire ; gth, Surrey ; 13th, Mid-Lothian ; i6th, Gloucester 

 and Tyrone (Ireland). 



The whinchat reaches us, as a rule, from Northern Africa 

 from the middle to end of April. The igoi appearances 

 sent in to me were — April 20, Surrey; 21st, Worcester; 

 23rd, Northampton, Sussex, and Warwick ; 26th, Ayrshire ; 

 27th, Mid-Lothian. 



The greater whitethroat generally arrives from Southern 

 Africa somewhere about the first fortnight in April. On 

 April 8 it appeared in Sussex, the remaining records being — 

 14th, Shropshire ; 22nd Hants, Montgomery (North Wales), 

 Somerset, and Worcester ; 23rd, Essex and Kent ; 24th, 

 Oxford ; 27th, Herts ; May 4, Ayrshire. 



The lesser whitethroat winters in Africa, and arrives about 

 the same time as its last-mentioned relation. It appeared 

 in Somerset on April 10 ; 21st, Worcester ; 22nd, Surrey 

 and Sussex ; 23rd, Kent. 



The last bird on my list, the wryneck, spends the winter 

 in China and Northern Africa, and arrives about the first or 

 second week in April. The earliest records I have for the 

 year under review are — April i, Essex and Herts ; and sub- 

 sequently as follows : 5th, Kent ; 7th, Sussex ; loth, Somer- 

 set ; i2th, Hants ; 14th, Berks ; i6th, Gloucester ; 17th, 

 Devon and Surrey; 22nd, Norfolk; 26th, Worcester. 



