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probable that the mnjority of the survivors were driven south by this 

 gale, as but few occurrences were reported from Scotland after the end 

 of January, and during the last day of the gale large numbers were 

 passing south along the Northumberland coast, and arrivals were recorded 

 on the Yorkshire and Norfolk coasts on the 20th. A good many occurred 

 inland as far west as Staffordshire and Derbyshire and as far south as Kent 

 and Sussex between the last-named date and the beginning of Februarj-. 

 On the 1st and 2nd of that month a fierce blizzard raged which swept 

 enormous numbers on to the east coast of England ; the larger proportion 

 seems to have been driven ashore between the Firth of Forth and 

 Norfolk and thence inland in a more or less south-westerl}' direction, so 

 that during the following ten days or so many stragglers were found 

 scattered throughout England to the east and north of a line through 

 Sussex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, "NVorcestersliire, 

 Shropshire and Cheshire, while stragglers reached counties Dublin, 

 Wicklow and Carlow in Ireland. 



Should records be required in further detail, reference niav" be made 

 to the * Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1911,' p. 70, the 'Scottish 

 Naturalist,' 1912, pp. 77-81, and ' British Birds ' (Mag.), v. pp. 282 et seq., 

 309 et seq., 337-8, and vi. p. 22, from which the greater part of the above 

 has been condensed. 



