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THE GARDEN-WARBLER {Sylvia hortensis). 



The emigratory movement commenced early in Augi\st. Many were 

 recorded at St. Catherine's Light (Hants) on the 9th/10th and a few on 

 the lOth/llth. 



In September great numbers arrived in Kent on the 9th and left on 

 the following day. On the 14th a large number appeared on the norih 

 coast of Norfolk as well as on the Suliblk coast, but all had passed on 

 by the 17th. A smaller arrival of migrants in Suffolk took place on the 

 19th. The lighthouse records in September were all from St. Catherine's, 

 where many were observed between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. on the 5th/6th and 

 between 2.30 and 4.30 a.m. on the 13th/14th, also stragglers on the 

 nights of the 2nd/3rd, 6th/7th, 7th/8th, 8th/9th, lOth/llth aud llth/12th. 

 In October a single bird was seen in Sufiblk on the 18th. Garden- 

 Warblers were last seen in Linlithgow on the 8th of September, in 

 Romney Marsh (Kent) on the 12th, inNoifolk on the 17th and in Surrey 

 on the 20th. 



THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN {Regulus cristatus). 



The migratory movements of this species were of considerable mag- 

 nitude, being observed on all our coasts and being more or less con- 

 tinuous from the end of August until the middle of November. Both 

 the British and Continental forms of the Goldcrest were concerned, and 

 it is probable that at any rate up to the end of September the records 

 refer almost wholly to the British form. It seems most likely that the 

 bulk of the Continental birds arrived on the east coast during the large 

 movement that started during the second week of October. The earliest 

 specimens of this form recoguised came from E. Kent on the 14th, the 

 Sussex coast on the 24th and the Isle of Wight on the 26th. 



On the last night of August the first Goldcrest was taken at Flatholm 

 Light in the Bristol Channel, and during the first fortnight of September 

 the species occurred there almost nightly, and although the numbers 

 on each night were small, a large number was noticed on the island on 

 the 10th ; the records also indicated considerable southward passage 

 from S. Wales into Somerset and Devon. During the same period 

 there were a few records from the Welsh and Lancashire Lights, but the 

 number of birds was small and probably represented a gradual southward 

 movement of summer-residents from Scotland and the western counties. 

 On the east coast no migration was recorded until the lOth of September, 

 but from that time onwards to the 7th of October movements, evidently of 

 a very similar character to those on the west coast, were recorded almost 

 daily between the Isle of May (Fife) and Suffolk. There was no evidence 

 of any direct over-sea arrival during that period, so that the movement 

 was probably of a southward '' coasting " character. The only evidence 



