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THE TURTLE-DOVE. 



Turtur comnumis Selby. 



The earliest records o£ the arrival of this species were received 

 from Kent on the 24th and 25th of April and from Berkshire 

 on the 27th. Durino- the first days of May a few stragglers 

 were recorded from the south-eastern counties, but it was not 

 until the 5th of May that Turtle-Doves began to arrive in 

 any numbers. At this period most of the birds appear to 

 have landed on the south-eastern coast and to have passed 

 rapidly inland. From Cambridge, Norfolk, Lincoln and 

 Worcester arrivals were reported on the 6th of May, from 

 Wilts and Somerset on the 7th, from Herts and Dorset on 

 the 9th, from Derby on the 10th, and from Bucks, Denbigh 

 and Yorkshire on the 11th, while there was an increase in 

 Suffolk and Essex on the 10th. 



A further immigration was recorded from Kent, Essex 

 and Hants on the 11th, and the next day an increase was 

 noted in Suftblk, and the first few birds were recorded from 

 Leicester and Staffordshire. 



On May the 13th birds were observed at the Hants lights 

 and in [Sussex, and a decided increase was recorded from 

 Berks, Herts and Cambridge, and, on the following day, from 

 Essex and Suffolk. 



On May the 15th, the night when the greatest immigration 

 of the season occurred on the south coast, birds of this s])ecies 

 were seen and taken at the CJornwall, Devon and Hants 

 lights, and an increase was noted in Sussex and Kent. 

 Their movements could be traced as far as the extreme western 

 counties, where an increase was noted on the 18th, 19th and 

 20th, but it was impossible to trace this immigration any further, 

 for by that date the birds had everywhere become resident. 



