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and Wales. At the same time there is evidence from the 

 western lights of a passage up the Welsh coast through the 

 Isle of Man, probably of birds going further north. 



Between the 20th and 23rd of April, and between the 

 28th of April and the 2nd of May, further considerable 

 arrivals occurred on the Devonshire and Hampshire coasts. 

 These comprised birds of both races, and seem to have passed 

 more rapidly northwards, the passage up the west coast 

 being more marked than in the previous movement, while 

 the northern counties were reached more rapidly. A pro- 

 portion of these birds appear to have comprised many of the 

 summer-residents in our northern counties, but the majority 

 were no doubt passage-migrants on their way to mure 

 northern summer-quarters. During the same period (between 

 the 20th of April and the 2nd of May) migration was again 

 most marked and continuous through the Channel Islands, 

 several of the records again agreeing with those of arrivals 



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in Hampshire. 



It is rather remarkable that no further arrivals were 

 recorded on the south coast, east of the Isle of Wight, after 

 the 17th of April. Passage-movements were, however, in 

 progress through the eastern counties till nearly the end of 

 the month, and there were indications of others during the 

 first few days of May; at the same time it is clear that they 

 were not nearly so important as those taking place in the 

 west, and it seems probable that they were due to a pro- 

 portion of the Hampshire arrivals taking a north-easterly 

 course, instead of a northerly or north-western one. 



Further small movements were noticed at the Channel 

 Islands on May the 5th and on the Hampshire and Devon- 

 shire coasts on the 6th and 10th. 



Wheatears were said to have attained their usual numbers 

 in Staffordshire by the 10th of April and in Carnarvon by the 

 17th. They were nesting in Glamorgan on the 2nd of May 

 and in Cambridgeshire on the 8th, while in Cumberland 

 incubation had commenced on the 22nd. 



Our information as to the " races " of this species is chiefly 

 derived from the wings of birds obtained at the lights, and 



