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THE SEDGE-WARBLER. 



Aevoreplialus pIn'Kijnutis (lkxlii>t.). 



The Sedoe-Wiirblcr arrived along the wliole of the south 

 coast, but chiefly on the eastern half. 



The first arrivals recorded were two birds in Somersetshire 

 on the 7th of April. A few other strao-glers api)eared be- 

 tween that date and the 1-lth, and were followed by slightly 

 larger numbers in Hampshire and Kent on the ir)th, and in 

 Dorset on the 17th. Further smaller immigrations occurred 

 on the south coast as far west as the Eddvstone between the 

 20th and 22nd, at the Isles of Scilly on the 2()th, and in 

 Dorsetshire on the 20th, so that l)y the end of the month 

 Sedge-Warblers were thinly but evenly distributed over the 

 whole country. They reached Yorkshire by the 21st and 

 (Cumberland on the 2nth, while arrivals were recorded in 

 the Clyde area by the 1st and 2nd of May. 



In the latter half of the first week of May a larger immi- 

 gration took place along the whole of the soutli coast, and was 

 followed by another during the second week of the month, both 

 of these movements being recorded in the Channel Islands. 

 The first of these seems to have comprised both passao-e- 

 migrants and our own summer-residents, more particularly 

 those of the midlaiuls, northern counties and Scotland 

 while the second S(^ems to have consisted mainly of passao-e- 

 niigrants. The presence of the latter in both movements is 

 shown by the occurrences at lights on the west and more 

 particularly on the east coast, as well as by the records from 

 the Pentland Skerries. These passage-movements continued 

 until the middle of the third week in Mav. In the mean- 

 while the earlier arrivals lost but little time in settlino- down 



