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the northern midlands and the northern counties, as well as 

 in Scotland : the usual number was not recorded in Shrop- 

 shire and Derbyshire until the 6th, or from Cheshire and 

 Renfrew until the 13th. Others seem to have been passage- 

 migrants on their way to more northern localities, as was 

 indicated by the records from the Pentland Skerries between 

 the 8th and 17th. 



Whitethroats were building in Surrey on the 21st of April, 

 in Devonshire on the 24:th, and in Yorkshire on the 29th, 

 on which date finished nests were found in Kent and Shrop- 

 shire. A nest with two eggs was reported in Somerset on 

 the 2nd of May, one with a single egg in Westmoreland 

 on the Gth of May, and others with four eggs in Warwick 

 on the loth and in Glamorgan and Gloucester on the IGth. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



^larch 27th. Devon. 



21)th. Kent. 

 April :5rd. Surrey. 



„ 5th. Kent, Cheshire. 



„ (jth. Gloucester, Yorkshire. 



,, 7th. Cornwall (passing). 



„ 10th. Dorset. 



„ 11th. Dorset (increase). Devon (slight in- 



crease) . 



„ 12th. Cornwall (passing). Sussex, Suffolk. 



„ 13th. Somerset, Wilts. 



„ 14th. Leicester. 



,, 15th. Derby. 



„ U)th. Berks. 



,, 17tli. Essex, Northampton, Merioneth, Isle of 



Man. 



„ 18th. Shropshire. 



„ I'Jth. Somerset (increa.se). Hants, Herts, Notts. 



„ l'.1th/2()tli. Cornwall light. 



„ 20th. Somerset and Surrey (increase). Nor- 



thain[)ton (great increase). Wilts (slight 

 increase). Bedford. AVorcester. Tjincoln. 



