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the lltli. Oil the 17th an observer iu Staffordshire reported the depar- 

 ture of the bulk of the local stock. Many occurred at Fair Isle and 

 north Unst (Shetland) on the 29th, and on the coast of Yorkshire on the 

 31st. At the lig-lits in August large numbers were recorded at riatholm 

 (Somerset) at 2 a.m. on the 5th/Gtb, and at St. Catherine's (Isle of 

 Wight) on the 8Lh/9th and lOth/Ilrh. One was killed at the Mull of 

 Galloway Light on the 8th, and a few were seen at the Smalls (Pem- 

 broke) at 4 A.M. on the 12tli/13th, and at St. Catherine's at 9 p.m. on tbe 

 31st/lst of September. 



In September a large number were observed in south Dorset on the 

 4th, and smaller numbers on the 15th ; in Cheshire some numbers were 

 noted on passage on the 10th, and a few arrived on the north coast or 

 Norfolk on the 14th, departing- again by the 17th. On the coast of 

 Suffolk many arrived on the IGth and a few on the 19th, all passing on 

 by the 22ud ; some arrivals also took place in the Isle of May (Fifej on 

 the 26th. The lighthouse records for September were very numerous. 

 Large numbers were seen at St. Catherine's on the oth/tith and 

 lOth/Uth, at Smalls on the Gtli/7th and at Flatholm on the 10th. 

 Smaller numbers were reported at St. Catlieriue's on the lst/2nd, 

 2nd/3rd, 6th/7th, 8th/9th, 9th/i0th, llth/12th, 12th/13th and 13th/14th, 

 at Bardsey (Carnarvon) on the 7th/8th, 9th/10th and i4th/ioth, and two 

 at Helwick (Glamorgan) at 10 p.m. on the 8th/9th. 



In October two were seen at the Skerries (Anglesey) at 10 p.m. on the 

 21st/22nd, and several on a P. & 0. liner between Ushant and Finisterre 

 on the 23rd. 



Willow- Warblers were last seen in Nottinghamshire and Warwick- 

 shire on the 5th of Septembei', iu Cheshire on the IGth, iu Devonshire 

 and Dorset on the 20th, in Somerset on the 21st, in Suffolk o]i the 

 22nd, in Surrey on the 28th and in Kent on the 30th. 



THE WOOD- WARBLER {Phtjlloscopus sibilatrix). 



Wood-Warblers seem to have begun to move early in August, as a 

 single bird was seen for the last time on the 5th in Radnorshire and 

 several breeding-haunts were already deserted in W. Kent by the 18th, 

 where on that day only a single bird was seen. Others on passage were 

 noted in Scarborough (Yorkshire) on the 17th, at Windermere on 

 September the 12th and in Northumberland on the 14th. On October the 

 22nd several were seen on board a liner in the Bay of Biscay between 

 Ushant and Finisterre. 



TBE REED-WARBLER {Acrocephahcs strepenis). 



Reed- Warblers were reported as still present iu their breeding-haunts 

 in Warwickshire on August the 7th and in S.E. Sussex on September 



