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the principal highways and routes of migration of many 

 species. But from the small birds few rings have been 

 traced, and the arrival and departure of the wheatears are 

 peculiarly indeterminate. The greatest throng I have 

 ever seen was in the east, not the west. They were 

 drifting steadily down the coast of Norfolk, and had 

 stopped for half a day or so, close by the Cley marshes. 

 Perhaps second in my recollection were the long incur 

 sions of nesting pairs along the ridge of Lundy Island in 

 May. They come early, but, I should say, are much 

 slower to nest than the later arrivals. A pair of swallows 

 will begin nesting on tt . &quot; ~~ of their arrival, a 



pair of wheatear will nc ; appropriate hole 



in the ground for a me , . may find the first 



dutch of green eggs 1 oilar experience 



in a rabbit hole on Stres ,. , ,: first week of May. 



A dry summer with 

 rare sequence in Engl 

 and even excitement tl 

 The bees prove to I 

 flourish when season 

 hobblers, limping c 

 shepherd s knife. T : 

 their prancing infante 

 to admire like the gaJ 

 are the bees, quite 

 fungus, and their hoi :&amp;gt; 

 undue warmth in J r&amp;gt; , 

 appetites, when otb/ ; 

 less sleep, would h? 

 into untimely activ ; , 



to follow makes a 

 watch with interest 

 of such associations, 

 aeep, which always 

 ou see no unhappy 

 V that call for the 

 e almost as active as 

 op of sheep is a thing 

 In such good plight 

 &amp;gt;uld and all creeping 

 Fears proved vain that 

 i prematurely whetted 

 were deep in hunger- 

 t ese inveterate workers 

 damage. But the 



