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observed in the Midlands, was noticed during the same period on the 

 Hampshire coast, and probably indicates that a certain proportion left 

 our shores from that area. The only records from the lights were of 

 single birds taken at Smalls Light (Pembroke) on the 6th/7th of 

 September, St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) on the 29th/30th, and 

 at Hanois Light (Guernsey) on the 26th/27th of October. 



THE GREY WAGTAIL (Motacilla melanope). 



Aug. 6th, Oxted (Surrey), a pair. 



„ 7th. Ulverston (Lancashire), ten seen, gone on 27th. 



Sept. 1st. New Milton (Hants), first seen. 



„ 3rd. Virginia Water (Surrey), one seen. 



J, 8th. Rye (Sussex), two seen. 



„ 13th. Dungeness (Kent), one arrived from over sea, going 

 N.W. 



„ 15th. Thanet (E. Kent), two seen. 



„ 20th. Lowestoft (Suffolk), first seen. 



„ 22nd. N.W^ Suffolk, first seen. 



„ 25th. Quorn (Leicester), first seen. 



Oct. 1st. S. Somerset, first seen. 



„ 2nd. St. Leonards (Sussex), first seen. 



„ 4th. Ambleside (Westmoreland), two flocks flying S. 



„ 6th. Manchester, one in the town. 



„ 30th. Rostherne (Cheshire), one seen. 



Nov. 9th. Yarmouth (Norfolk), five arrived. 



THE YELLOW WAGTAIL {Motacilla raii). 



Yellow Wagtails began to move from their breeding-grounds early in 

 August. As early as the 5th some families had disappeared in Notting- 

 hamshire, while packing movements were noticed in N.W. Suffolk on 

 the 6th, on the Kent coast on the 7th, and in Lancashire on the 11th. 

 On the 10th the Suffolk birds began to leave, and nearly all of them had 

 gone by the 17th, while passage-migrants were recorded in Linlithgow 

 on the 15th and 20th, on the Suffolk coast on the 21st, in Somerset 

 between the 18th and 31st, in N.W. Suffolk on the 19th, 26th and 30th, 

 on the north coast of Norfolk on the 1st and 2nd of September, and in 

 Derbyshire on the 2nd. A considerable southward movement was 

 noticed in Cheshire between the 11th and 15th of September, and birds 

 were passing in that county up to the 20th, and in Bedford on the 18th. 



As early as the 23rd of August the first emigrants reached the 

 Hampshire coast, and these were followed by others on the 31st, and on 



