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between mid-February and the first week in March. January 

 movements as in Song-Thrush and Redwing, but by no 

 means every year. 



Autumn passage, first week in October to second week in 

 December, occasionally to the fourth week. Heaviest numbers 

 between mid-October and mid-November, occasionally early 

 in October also. 



As a summer resident it is numerous all over the cultivated 

 part of the island and breeding also some two-thirds up the 

 western and northern slopes of the mountain. As Mr. Aplin 

 has already remarked they are " very conspicuous and tame," 

 and singing from every kind of elevated vantage point. 

 Several birds in 1913 had very curious songs, quite Ring- 

 Ouzel-like at times, and more than one had picked up the 

 notes of the Redshank. Nests were found in the farm gardens, 

 on the turf top of a stone dyke, where presumably the majority 

 of them build, and in an angle of a low cliff high up the moun- 

 tain. Only a few young birds were out of the nest on June 

 I2th. 



The greater proportion of the locally bred young had left 

 the island before September 3rd, and nearly all the Blackbirds 

 seen were adult birds deep in the moult. A few birds appar- 

 ently through their moult were seen on the tidal rocks 

 between September 3rd and 8th, and these were possibly 

 early passage migrants. 



The Wheatear {(Enanthe ce. cenanthe and (2i. ce. leucorrhoa). 



A regular double-passage migrant in considerable numbers. 



Spring passage, from the end of March (earliest date 29th) 

 to the second week in May ; the earliest record of the large 

 race, April 20th, the latest date of the small race, April 20th. 



Autumn passage, from mid- August to the first week in 

 October, once October loth. Earliest record of the large race, 

 August 31st ; latest record of the small race, September 25th. 



As a summer resident evidently not constant, which is 

 surprising, as there are plenty of suitable nesting sites, stone 

 dykes and rabbit holes, etc. Recorded by Mr. Aplin as 

 " fairly common," and also seen by Mr. Coward, on both of 

 which occasions the birds ought to have been, and no doubt 

 were, breeding. 



In 1913, however, between June 12th and 24th, not a bird 

 was seen, and the species is not one that can be missed, if 

 breeding on a small island. 



The Wheatear migration was one of the features of the 

 early days of September 1913. Beyond one or two scattered 



