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Wales during the migration, we must take into consideration 

 the following points : — 



1. That the species was first recorded during the third 



■week in March from counties where it is known to 

 breed, but there is no record to show from whence 

 these earliest arrivals came. 



2. That after our own residents had settled down and 



begun to breed, birds continued to pass across 

 England on their way to more northern localities. 

 Thus, though nests were found in Staffordshire and 

 Lancashire on May the 3rd, two days later large 

 numbers were seen in the Isle of Man, but these had 

 decreased by May the 7th and 8th. Others were 

 heard passing the Eddystone light on May the 

 15th, but by the 19th nearly all had left South 

 Devon. 



It should also be remembered that a certain number of 

 individuals of this species winter in Cornwall and Devon, and 

 possibly these were the birds recorded early in the season 

 from the more northern counties, to which they repair before 

 the main flocks of immigrants reach our shores. 



Chronological Summary of thk Records. 



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