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THE NIGHTINGALE. 



Daulias luscinia (L.). 



The Nightingale arrived on the south and south-eastern 

 coasts between Hampshire and Suffolk. 



From the time o£ the first arrivals in Hampshire and 

 Suffolk on the 8th and 9th of April until the 21st of the 

 month stragglers were noted in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, 

 Somerset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Gloucester, Oxford, 

 Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridge and Norfolk. These were 

 apparently all arrivals on the south-east coast and moving 

 westwards. 



The first marked influx took place on the 22nd and 24:th 

 of April, when increases were recorded in Dorset, Hamp- 

 shire, Sussex, Kent, Somerset and Surrey, and larger ones 

 in Bei-kshire and Suffolk, while at the same time one 

 Nightingale was killed at St. Catherine's light (Hants). 



A further large increase in Berkshire between the 24th 

 and the 27th, two birds killed at St. Catherine's on the night 

 o£ the 28th/29th and one on that of the lst/2nd May indicated 

 that continued arrivals were taking place on the south 

 coast. 



Migratory movements continued up to the middle of the 

 month, but they were mostly inland and not of a very 

 marked character. The birds were evidently commencing 

 to settle in many parts early in May. A nest with two egos 

 was found in Gloucester on the 7th. They were nesting in 

 Surrey on the 7th, in Cambridge and Staffordshire on the 8th 

 and in Somerset on the 9th. Nests with eggs were also 

 reported in Hertfordshire on the 20th, in Hampshire on the 

 21st and in Somerset on the 24th, and one with youno- in 

 Essex on the 30th. Nightingales were reported as beino- 



