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THE REED-WARBLE Px. 



Acrocephalus streperus (Vicill.j. 



LiFvE the Grasshopper-Warbler, the present species -\vas 

 seldom recorded unless a special visit was paid to its nesting- 

 Inunts. Consequently, owing to the scantiness and doubtful 

 nature of many of the records (so many of them being 

 based on single observations) its points of entry and suljse- 

 qucni movements were very difficult to define. On the whole 

 it seems ])rol)able that it entered the country mainly on the 

 eastern half of the south coast. 



The first arrivals reported were in Hampshire and Surrey 

 on the I'.Hli of April, and on the following day a few were 

 noted in Suffolk. An influx of migrants must have taken 

 place about the 3rd week in April, as a few were observed 

 in CJheshire on the 25th, and increased numbers were 

 reported in the same county on the 2()th and 27th. The 

 larger number of our summer-residents, however, seem to 

 have arrived during the first fortnight in May, an increase 

 beino- recorded in Kent on the 1st, in Somerset on the otji, 

 and in Essex on the 8th and 13th, while a single bird was 

 killed at St. Catherine's light (Hampshire) on the night of 



the 6th/7th. 



Reed-Warblers were nesting in Hamj)shire on the 20th of 



May and in Westmoreland on the 30th. Nests with eggs 



were found in Essex on the 21st, in Oxford on the 2(Jth, and 



in Somerset on the 20th. 



Chronological Summauy of the Records. 



Ai)ril 10th. Hants, Surrey. 



20th SufVolk. 



