252 BRITISH BIRDS. 



5. In October and November considerable numbers 

 arrive on the north and north-east coasts from north Europe. 

 Many of these also ^^'inter in Great Britain and Ireland, while 

 others again pass on to south-west Europe. 



6. During a spell of severe cold many of our winter 

 residents (chiefly the continental birds) seek the south and 

 west parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and may even leave 

 altogether for warmer regions in the south. 



7. In February the birds inhabiting the more northern 

 and elevated districts in our isles begin to return to their 

 summer quarters. 



8. The summer visitors to our islands return from south- 

 west Europe to their summer quarters in February and 

 March. 



9. About the same time the continental birds Mhich left 

 us during the winter also return. 



10. In March and April the birds of passage arrive on the 

 south coast on their way to their summer quarters in central 

 and north-west Europe. 



11. In February and March the central European birds 

 which have wintered with us return to their summer homes 

 by the east coast. 



12. In mid-March to April the northern birds, which have 

 wintered Avith us, return to their summer homes. 



I]S"CREASE AND EXTENSION OF RANGE. 



Channel Islands. — Jersey. — Eighteen or twenty years ago 

 Starlings were comparatively rare, but since then they have 

 increased to abundancy (H. Mackay, Zool., 1904, p. 342). 

 Sark. — Quite an uncommon species, comparatively speaking 

 (E. F. M. Elms, t.c, 1903, p. 305). 



SciLLY. — It is apparently still only an autumn and winter 

 visitor to these islands. " As a rule only a few stragglers 

 are to be seen after the middle of April " (J. Clark and F. R. 

 Rodd, t.c, 1906, p. 251). 



Hants. — " I have been informed that it is much more 

 abundant in the New Forest than some years ago " (C. B. 

 Corbin, t.c, 1904, p. 458). It has certainly largely increased 

 as a breeding species within the last ten years in the New Forest, 

 but directly the young are fledged the Forest itself is 

 abandoned. (H. F. W.) 



Cheshire. — Has undoubtedly increased of late years 

 (T. A. Coward and C. Oldham, B. of Cheshire, p. 94 (1900) ). 



N. Wales. — " Although the Starhng is now abundant in all 

 parts of North Wales, as a breeding species it was almost 

 unknown in the west twenty to twenty-five years ago. At 



