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THE REED-WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). 



Very little can be gathered from the records relating to this 

 species, but it seems to have landed on the south and south- 

 east coasts between Hampshire and Essex. 



Its arrival was first reported from Hampshire on the 

 18th of April and from Kent on the 21st. A few birds had 

 reached Yorkshire by the 23rd, while an increase in that 

 county on the 27th, together with a few records from new 

 localities on the same date, point to an influx of migrants 

 about that time. 



A single bird was taken at the Caskets light on the 

 2nd/3rd of May, and on the 3rd and 4th a large arrival 

 evidently took place on the eastern coast, but beyond that, 

 very little information could be gathered from the records, 

 which evidently, for the most part, represented special visits 

 to the bird's particular haunts. A nest was found in Cheshire 

 on the 4th of May, one in Norfolk on the 22nd and nests with 

 effgrs in Kent and Suffolk on the 25th. 



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Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 18th. Hants. 



„ 21st. Kent, Shropshire. 



„ 23rd, Yorkshire. 



25th. Bedford. 



26th. Somerset, Surrey, Cheshire. 



,, 27th. Yorkshire (increase). Herts, Cambridge. 



29th. Suffolk. 



May 2nd/ord. Channel Islands light. 



3rd. Essex. 



