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THE RING-OUZEL. 



Tardus torquatus, L. 



The Ring-Ouzel seems to have arrived, so far as our British 

 residents are concerned, entirely on that part o£ the south 

 coast lying to the west of Hampshire. 



Early examples, which may possibly have wintered in some 

 part of the south-west of England, were seen in Carmarthen- 

 shire in the middle of February and in Westmoreland on 

 the 8th of March. The first arrivals noted in the southern 

 counties were seen in Somersetshire on the 14th of March, 

 and a single bird, probably a passage-migrant, in Sussex on 

 the following day. 



The first movement of any magnitude seems to have 

 occurred in the west about the 25th, and was followed by 

 others between the 30th of March and the 3rd of April, one 

 or two passage-migrants appearing during the same period 

 in certain of the south-eastern counties. These immigrants 

 spread rapidly north through the western counties, reaching 

 Renfrewshire by the 29th of March and Cumberland and 

 Yorkshire by the 2nd and 3rd of April. Between the 6th 

 and 9th considerable numbers of Ring-Ouzels passed the 

 Channel Islands lights; and though it seems probable, from 

 the presence of passage-migrants in the eastern counties from 

 the 7th onwards, that a proportion, at any rate, of these birds 

 landed on our shores, no definite arrivals were reported until 

 the 9th. "With the advent of these, the records from inland 

 soon increased, while most of the Welsh breeding-birds seem 

 certainly to have been included in this migration. Further 

 arrivals in Devonshire on the 18th and a movement noticed at 

 the Channel Islands on the 28th, seem to have consisted 



