CHAPTER X. 



MIGRATION IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 



IT seems fitting to conclude a volume describing 

 the ornithology of a county so specially favoured 

 with bird-life as Devonshire with a chapter not only 

 dealing with the phenomenon of avine migration 

 in this area, but with a resume of those commoner 

 ornithological events by which the cycle of each 

 recurring year is punctuated. After a residence of 

 many years on the south coast of Devonshire we 

 may fairly claim to have gathered some informa- 

 tion on the subject; so that a brief sketch of the 

 seasonal movements of birds over the county as we 

 have remarked them year by year may possibly be 

 of some interest and value to the reader. We say 

 this more especially because our opinions will be 

 found to differ in various important respects from 

 those held by writers who have published works on 

 the ornithology of the county. 



