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flock on Greenodd Sands in June, it is most probable that some 
birds visited fields in the vicinity of the Kent estuary. 
Having thus dealt with our own faunal area, it may be convenient 
to quote data for two quarters to which Sand-grouse frobably 
travelled through Cumberland. 
IsLE oF Man.—A flock of eight birds arrived in the island on 
May 22nd; and on the 28th one was shot out of a flock of fifteen. 
(P. M. C. Kermode, Zool. 1888, p. 265). Early in June a flock 
of about fifty visited the island. (T. H. Nelson, ib. p. 300). A 
third record must be passed over as anonymous. 
_ ScorrisH SoLway.—None were seen until June 7th, though the 
first news of the arrival of the birds in Cumberland had been tele- 
graphed to Mr. R. Service, and he had instructed local observers 
to expect them. Mr. Service’s report will of course appear in the 
_ general report for Scotland, and it is only necessary to say that at 
one time sixty birds visited him, of which number nine alone 
_ remained on August 17th, the remainder having been “squandered,” 
_ as we say in Cumberland. 
FIRST ARRIVAL. 
| At Dunbar, N.B., Sand-grouse first arrived on May 16th, as 
_teported by Mr. W. Evans, whose kind thoughtfulness enabled the 
_ writer to send out early warnings to all his local observers. 
In Cumberland, birds were first seen at Thursby, on May 19th} 
on Walney island, on the same day ; at the Isle of Man on May 
22nd; on the Scottish Solway on June 7th. The bulk of those 
that visited us appear to have arrived between May roth and the 
beginning of June. 
The earliest dates quoted by Mr. J. E. Harting are :—Hants, 
May 15th; Aberdeenshire. May 17th; Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, 
Herts, all May 18th. (Zool. 1888, p. 234.) To Mr. Cordeaux we 
are indebted for information from Mr. H. Gitke’s delightful bird 
_ observatory on Heligoland, and the following are a few of the 
dates furnished thence :—May 8th, twelve birds; 13th, a score; 
14th, some; 18th, flights of from twenty to two hundred head; 
