THE RIXG-OUZEL. 



Turdos torquatus, L. 



So far as can be ascertained from the somewliat scanty 

 material supplied, our British-breeding King-Ouzels appear 

 to have arrived entirely on the western half of the south 

 coast, the few records from south-eastern and eastern counties 

 jirobably indicating the northward progress of small numbers 

 of passage-migrants bound for breeding-places in northern 

 continental Europe. 



Str.igglers made their appearance at the end of the first 

 week in March, but it was not until the last week of that 

 month that the main body of our breeding-birds began to 

 arrive. By the 1st of April an augmentation was evident, 

 and the majority of our summer-visitors would seem to have 

 arrived between the 1st and the I5th. They were reported 

 as already nesting in Devonshire on the 12th and as having 

 settled down in Cheshire and Carnarvon by the 15th and 

 17th, while nests containing eggs were found in Kenfi'ew on 

 the 24th, in Lancashire on the 25fh, and in Cheshire on the 

 5th of May, Xests with young birds were found in Radnor 

 on the 5th of May, in Yorkshire on the 12th, and in Mon- 

 mouth on the I'Jth. 



After our breeding-birds had settled down, further arrivals, 

 comprised no doubt of passage-migrants, made their appear- 

 ance ; thus, Ring-Ouzels occurred at Hanois light (Guernsey) 

 on the 18th/19th of April, and others were recorded from 

 Suffolk on the 19th, from the Isle of Man on the 21st and 

 28th, and from the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) as late as 

 the lilth of May. 



Chroxological Summary of the Records. 

 March 6th. Staffordshire. 



7tli. Kent. Yorkshire. 



