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Northumberland being reached on May the 1st. There was 

 apparently another small arrival in the west on April the 

 28th. 



Between the 2nd and 8th of May there must have been an 

 almost continuous immigration on the south coast between 

 Devonshire and Kent, but it was almost unrecorded in the 

 coastal area. The records, however, up to the 15th show a 

 progressive increase in numbers throughout the country. 

 This is more particularly marked in the eastern counties 

 Avhen compared with the April records, and there is no doubt 

 that the majority of the residents in that part of the kingdom 

 arrived during this movement. The residents of the extreme 

 west of Wales, the Isle of Man and the northern counties 

 generally, seem to have arrived at the same time. Further 

 arrivals seem to have taken place in Hampshire and Kent 

 on the 14th and 15th of May, but their inland progress 

 could not be traced. 



Sand-Martins were beginning to nest in Cambridge on the 

 1st of May and in Hampshire and Cumberland on the 4th ; 

 while nests with eggs were reported from Staffordshire on 

 the 11th and from Shropshire on the 22nd. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



March 25th. Devon. 



„ 27th. Devon (passing). 



„ 28th. Wilts (passing). 



April 1st. Staffordshire. 



„ 2nd. Herts, Brecon. 



„ 4th. Glamorgan, Denbigh. 



„ 6th. Dorset. 



„ 9th. Devon (slight increase). Cheshire. 



„ 10th. Guernsey, Hereford, (-umberland. 



„ 12th. Somerset, Surrey, Bedford. 



„ 13th. Sussex, Berks, Carnarvon. 



„ 15tb. Wilts (increase). Hants, Middlesex, 

 Leicester. 



,, IGth. Warwick, Shropshire, Lincoln. 



„ 17th. Derby, Westmoreland, Northumberland. 



