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land between tlie IStli and 23rd, in Leicestershire on tlie 14tb, and in 

 Hampshire and Kent on the 17th, while in the last-named county flocks 

 were observed going south-east on the 19th. Large numbers were also 

 reported on passage in Devonshire on the 21st, and in Northumberland 

 between the 22nd and 24th, many were noted on the coast of Yorkshire 

 on the latter date, and large numbers were passing south in Cheshire 

 between the 25th and 28th. A few were recorded going south-east in 

 Suffolk on the 26th, and a large flock to the south on the following day 

 The lighthouse reports for the month were : — Smalls (Pembroke), one 

 killed between midnight and 4 a.m. on the 6th/7th ; St. Ann's (Pem- 

 broke), many congregating on the 7th ; Flatholm (Somerset), many on 

 the island on the 10th ; Anvil Point (Dorset), hundreds on the telegraph- 

 wires on the same date ; Ilelwick (Glamorgan), one to the north at 

 dawn on the 13th ; Dtingeness (Kent), large numbers to the south on 

 the 13th/14th. English and Welsh Grounds (Somerset), seven to the 

 south on the 19th and three to the south at 10.30 a.m. on the 23rd. 



In October the stream of migration had begun to diminish, the bulk of 

 the records being of birds seen for the last time, or of stragglers passing. 

 On the 3rd, 10th and loth flocks of many individuals were reported in 

 Devonshire; in Sussex passing flocks were noted on the 10th, 12th, 15th 

 and 23rd, and hundreds had congregated on the south coast on thel 1th. 

 Some were observed at Fair Isle (Shetland) on the 17th and 18th. The 

 lighthouse records for the month were : — English and Welsh Grounds, 

 five to the south at 3.30 p.m. on the 6th, and three to the south at noon 

 on the 10th ; Morecambe Bay (Lancashire), one to the north-east at 

 2 P.M. on the 17th ; South Foreland (Kent), large numbers leaving to the 

 south at 3 P.M. on the 22nd. 



On the 1st of November a passing flock of about 100 was reported in 

 Devonshire. 



Swallows were last seen in Shropshire in the last week of September, 

 in Yorkshire on the 25th, in Cardigan and Kent on the 27th, in Denbigh 

 on the 29th, in Warwick and Berkshire on the 6th of October, in 

 Cornwall on the 7th, in Cumberland and Cheshire on the 8th, in Norfolk 

 on the 9th, in Wiltshire on the 14th, in Hampshire on the 20lh, and in 

 Somerset on the 28th. 



THE HOUSE-MARTIN ( Chelidon urbica). 



The only record for July was of a large flock going east in Somerset 

 on the 29th. 



Emigratory movements became very general in August ; some birds 

 were noted passing in Devonshire on the 6th and large flocks in War- 

 wickshire on the 8th. Between the 16th and 31st House-Martins were 

 migrating in numbers through Sussex, and large arrivals took place in 

 Suffolk on the 20th and 23rd, departing again on the following days. 



