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next- notes of any definite movements came from Surrey and Stafford- 

 shire on the 30th. The real migration, however, seems to have 

 commenced about the 4th of September, when the majority of the birds 

 left Northumberland, and the passage was noticed in Yorkshire on the 

 4th, 5th and 7th, in Staftbrdshire and the Isle of Wight on the 5th, in 

 Kent on the 6th, on the "Welsh coast on the 7th and in Suffolk and 

 Shropshire on the 8th. This movement lasted till the 18th and 19th, 

 after which only stragglers were recorded. Throughout the movement 

 the majority of the records were received from the eastern half of the 

 country. There were only two records from Wales, one from Shropshire, 

 and a few from an observer in Staffordshire between the 22ud and 

 27th of August ; all the other records (with the exception of one in 

 Nottinghamshire) were from the east and south coast counties between 

 Northumberland and Hampshire. 



THE STONECHAT {Pratincola ruhicola). 

 Aug. 12th. N. Hayling (Hampshire), marked and sudden increase. 

 „ 27th. N. Hayling, decrease, local residents apparently 

 remaining. 

 Oct. 8th. Tunbridge Wells (Kent), two passing (gone on 9th). 



Nov. 17 th. Countess Wear (S. Devon), one seen. 



THE REDSTART {Huticilla phcemcurus). 

 The first migrant recorded was an adult male killed at St. Catherine's 

 Light on the 10th of July; no further records reached us until the 3rd 

 of August, when passing birds were observed in Yorkshire and Warwick- 

 shire. From that date till the end of the month scattered records showed 

 that this species was on the move in small numbers, but no definite 

 migration could be traced. The passage began in earnest on the 1st of 

 September, and during the first week of that month the records show that 

 Redstarts were moving throughout the country. Between the 8th and 

 14th the records suddenly ceased, with the exception of small numbers at 

 St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) on the 10th, and a single bird seen 

 in Kent on the same day ; it seems probable, therefore, that the large 

 majority of our native-bred birds had left during the previous week. 

 On the 14th and 15th a well-marked immigration took place in 

 East Anglia^ many being noted by various observers in Suttblk and 

 Norfolk ; on the 16th and 17th the numbers had diminished, and 

 although there seems to have been a slight increase again on the 18th, 

 these birds had all passed out of the country by the 21st. Single 

 stragglers were seen on the 3rd and 22nd of October in Sussex, and 

 on the 14th of that month at St. Catherine's Light, while the last 

 record of this species noted a few seen from a P. & O. liner far out 

 in the Bay of Biscay on the 23rd. 



