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stragglers were taken on the Morecambe Bay light-vessel, off 

 Lancashire, on the night of the 26th. 



Willow-Warblers were reported as already building in 

 Staffordshire by the 21st of April, in Middlesex on the 28th, 

 in Cheshire on the 30th, in Suffolk and Shropshire on the 

 1st of May, in Glamorganshire and Norfolk on the 3rd and 

 in Lincolnshire and Cumberland on the 4th. Nests with 

 eggs were found in Hampshire on the 6th, in Devonshire and 

 Surrey on the 10th, in Sussex, Kent, Cambridgeshire and 

 Derbyshire on the 11th, in Dorsetshire and Radnorshire on 

 the 18th, in Somersetshire on the 19th and in Westmoreland 

 on the 21st, while a nest with young birds was found in 

 Cheshire on the 9th. 



Single examples of the Northern Willow- Warbler (Ph. t. 

 eversmanni) were taken at Bardsey light (Carnarvonshire) 

 on the lOth/llth of April, at St. Catherine's light (Hamp- 

 shire) on the 27th/28th and at the Caskets light (Channel 

 Islands) on the 6th/7th and 9th/ 10th of May, while one was 

 seen on the Mull of Galloway on the 3rd and six or eight on 

 the following day. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



Jan. 28th. Hants (one seen). 



March 9th. Scilly Isles (passing). 



„ 16th. Worcester. 



19th. Hants. 



21st. Staffordshire. 



„ 23rd. Cornwall. 



n 24th. Northampton. 



„ 25th. Kent, Carmarthen. 



5} 26th. Somerset (passing). Leicester. 



„ 28th. Devon, Notts. 



29th. Hants, Cheshire. 



„ 30th. Worcester. 



,. 30th/31st. Hants light. 



