31 8 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



spot as " under a bathing-machine " ! Yet Mr. 

 Monk states that on the I3th of April, 1872, 

 there were " Nightingales on the beach under the 

 bathing-machines along the whole length of the 

 shore at Brighton." The explanation which 

 suggests itself is that the birds had just arrived, 

 and had sought the first shelter which offered 

 a woody shelter, it is true, and a shady one, 

 although of a very different kind to that which 

 the birds had been accustomed to. 



The observations made upon the Tree Pipit, 

 twenty-one in number, call for no particular com- 

 ment, save that the direction of the wind at 

 several dates of supposed arrival was from a 

 S.W. or S.E. quarter, corresponding with what 

 has been observed of other migratory birds, and 

 tending to show that they prefer to travel 

 with a side wind rather than with a head wind 

 or the reverse. 



In the eastern counties, for example, it was 

 observed that the Tree Pipit arrived in Norfolk 

 with a S.S.E. wind, the temperature being 

 52 ; in Lincolnshire with a wind veering from 



