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and 13th of May similar records were again received, but 

 there was very little evidence that these birds reached our 

 shores. 



Redstarts were reported as nesting in Carmarthenshire on 

 the 30th of April, and building in Berkshire on the 3rd of 

 May and in Lancashire on the 12th, while nests with eggs 

 were found in Somersetshire on the 3rd, in Northumberland 

 on the 7th, in Radnorshire on the 16th, and in Cheshire and 

 Westmoreland on the 24th, and nests with young in Shrop- 

 shire on the 21st of May and in Warwickshire on the 8th of 

 June. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 9th. Sussex, Kent. 



„ 11th. Yorkshire light. 



„ 12th. Somerset, Suffolk. 



13th. Hants. 



„ 13th/14th. Hants light. 



,, 15th. Northampton. 



„ 17th. Gloucester, Oxford. 



„ 18th. Somerset (increase). Northumberland. 



„ 19th. Berks, Bedford, Yorkshire. 



„ 20th. Herts, Cumberland. 



„ 21st. Somerset (decrease). Shropshire. 



„ 22nd. Cambridge, Leicester. 



„ 23rd. Middlesex, Worcester, Warwick. 



,, 24th. Devon, Westmoreland. 



„ 24th/25th. Channel Islands and Hants lights. 



„ 25th. Surrey, Cheshire, Lancashire, Renfrew. 



,, 26th. Staffordshire, Derby. 



„ 27th. Herts and Cambridge (increase). Essex. 



„ 27th/28th. Channel Islands and Hants lights. 



„ 29th. Cumberland (increase). Brecon, Radnor, 



Lincoln. 



„ 29th/30th. Channel Islands light. 

 ,, 30th. Cambridge (increase). 



ing). 

 May 1st. Merioneth (passing). 



Carmarthen (nest- 



