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Small numbers were passing in Hampshire on the 22nd and hundreds 

 on the 31st, arriving on the south coast at dawn and leaving at 7.30 a.m. 

 to the south-west. On the 27th there was a marked decrease in Staf- 

 fordshire, followed by a large arrival on the 30th, and most of these birds 

 had passed on during the following day. 



During the first week of September a general movement of this species 

 to the south took place in Northumberland, and large passing flocks were 

 observed there on the 10th and 22nd, Numbers were noted passing in 

 Hampshire between the 1st and 16th, and there was a large arrival on 

 the south coast of that county at 4 p.m. on the 20th; these birds passed, 

 on at once, as also did numbers that had arrived from the north-east on 

 the 21st. In Sussex many were passing between the 1st and 26th, while 

 on the 20th large numbers were observed gathering near the coast, but 

 most of these appear to have lett by the following day. On the 23rd 

 hundreds were again observed leaving the shore to the south-west. Small 

 flocks were passing in Cumberland on the 7th, In Somerset House- 

 Mai tins were gathering in large numbers on the 11th and 18th, most of 

 them taking their departure on the 30th. Small numbers were reported 

 congregating in Kent on the 11th and a few passing on the 25th. 

 A passing flock of several hundreds was seen in Nottingham on the 16th, 

 and a general migratory movement was noted in Devonshire on the 20th. 

 A large number were recorded on the Yorkshire coast on the 24th, also 

 passing birds in Cheshire on the 25th and in Denbigh between the 28th 

 and 30th. The only lighthouse report came from Flatholm (Somerset), 

 where many were seen on the island on the 10th of September. No doubt, 

 as previously suggested, the records of " Swallows " at the lights often 

 included both this and the following species. 



The October records were chiefly those of small numbers or stragglers, 

 with the following exceptions, viz., large flocks observed in Derbyshire 

 on the 3rd and 7th, and a few passing in Hampshire between the 3rd 

 and 5th, followed by large numbers to the south on the 7th, Some 

 niimbers were noted on the coast of Sussex on the 14th, and on the 

 following day a flock going south was seen in Cheshire and one in 

 Leicester (direction not stated) on the 18th. House-Martins were 

 passing through the Isle of Man as late as the 27th, 



On the 2nd of November a passing flock of twenty or thirty was 

 observed in Sussex and a few in Essex on the 13th. 



House-Martins were last seen in Westmoreland on the 20th of 

 September, in Devonshire on the 23rd, in Denbigh on the 2nd of 

 October, in Berkshire between the 4th and 8th, in Shropshire and 

 Warwickshire on the 6th, in Northumberland on the 7th, in Cheshire 

 and Norfolk on the 9th, in Lincolnshire on the 10th, in Linlithgow on 

 the 14th, in Surrey on the 15th, in Yorkshire on the 16th, and in 

 Hampshire on the 18th. Young birds were still in their nests in the 

 last week of September in Lincoln, Shropshire and Radnor. 



