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THE NIGHTINGALE. 



Daulias luscinia (L.). 



This species arrived on the southern and south-eastern coasts 

 from Dorsetshire to Suffolk. 



The earliest records were from Dorsetshire, Hampshire, 

 Kent, Sussex, and Suffolk on the 13th, 15th and 17th of 

 April. On the 21st the birds apparently commenced to 

 arrive in greater numbers, and this influx continued until the 

 24th, by which date they had extended over the country as far 

 north as Nottinghamshire and as far west as Glamorganshire. 

 On the 25th, 27th, 28th and 30th of April, and on the 5th of 

 May further immigratory movements occurred which made up 

 the full complement of birds in the territory already occupied 

 and caused an extension northwards into Lincolnshire. 



Nests with eggs were found in Suffolk on the 6th of May, 

 in Hampshire on the 7th, in Surrey on the 10th, in Cam- 

 bridgeshire on the 11th, in Northamptonshire on the 13th, 

 in Sussex on the 17th, and in Essex on the 20th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 13th. Dorset. 



„ 15th. Hants, Kent. 



„ 17th. Sussex, Suffolk. 



,, 20th. Surrey, Essex, Northampton. 



„ 21st. Kent (increase). Somerset, Cambridge. 



„ 22nd. Sussex (increase). Wilts, Berks, Mon- 

 mouth, Norfolk. 



„ 23rd. Suffolk (increase). Surrey and Essex 

 (slight increase). Glamorgan, Gloucester, 

 Oxford, Herts, Worcester, Notts. 



