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subsequent northward passage of the migrants, but the move- 

 ment was not clearly defined and could not be traced with 

 any certainty. 



No notes were received as to the nesting of this species, 

 and it was entirely unrecorded from the counties of 

 Dorset, Sussex, Buckingham, Hertfordshire, Essex, Bedford, 

 Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk, while the few reports 

 from Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Middlesex, Berkshire, Suffolk 

 and Lincoln seem for the most part to have been those of 

 passing stragglers. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



Marc 



h 14th. 



Glamorgan. 



J5 



21st. 



Somerset. 



Auril 



1. 



18th. 



Somerset. 



J5 



18th/19th. 



iVnglesey light. 



?» 



21st. 



Kent, Notts, 



5» 



23rd. 



Hants. 



?» 



24th. 



Grloucester. 



5! 



25th. 



Ayrshire. 



?? 



26th. 



Hereford, Derby, Isle of Man, Renfrew. 



55 



26th/27th. 



Hants light. 



59 



27th. 



Staffordshire, Cumberland. 



■)) 



28th. 



Devon, Carnarvon, Lancashire. 



5) 



29th. 



Wilts, Worcester, Montgomery, Leicester, 

 Yorkshire, Northumberland. 



?) 



30th. 



Suffolk, Shropshire, Flint, Cheshire. 



May 



1st. 



Cornwall, Glamorgan. 



j» 



2nd. 



Cumberland (slight increase). Car- 

 marthen. 



>» 



3rd. 



Berks, Derby. 



» 



4th. 



Carnarvon (increase). Monmouth, Den- 

 bigh. 



»? 



5th. 



Durham. 



}■> 



6th. 



Northumberland (slight increase). 



3i 



7th. 



Oxford, Warwick, Merioneth. 



