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THE WHITETHROAT. 



Sylvia cinerea Bechst. 



At the end o£ March and in the beginning of April a few 

 strao-o-lers arrived in the west : on March the 30th two were 



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observed in Glamorgan^ and on April the 1st four were seen 

 in Denbigh and one in Cornwall. 



There were records from Derby on the 2nd, from Dorset 

 and Herts on the 6th, and from Kent and Essex on the 8th 

 and 11th respectively. 



The first record from the lights was on the 15th, when a 

 number of Whitethroats were noted amongst the great 

 immigration at St. Catherine's, Plants ; a smaller lot was 

 observed there on the 21st. 



On the 22nd a large immigration arrived on the south- 

 east coast and many were seen at Dungeness light, Kent. 



Land records were very few, even at this date, and were 

 mostly from the southern counties, though stragglers had 

 reached Yorkshire on the 23rd, and by the 28th a few were 

 scattered through most of the southern and midland counties. 

 On the 29th there was a marked increase in Kent, Suffolk, 

 Cambridge and Nottingham, on the 3rd of May in 

 Somerset, and on the 4th in Kent, Essex, Shropshire and 

 Cheshire. 



On the 4th of May Whitethroats made their first recorded 

 appearance on the Isle of Man and were also noted at the 

 Spurn Head light, S.E. Yorkshire, but there was no evidence 

 to show whether they were emigrants or not : the same re- 

 mark applies to a few birds recorded from the Haisboro' 

 and Cromer lights, Norfolk, on the following night. 



On the night of May the 5tli the first large immigration 



