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THE SAND-MARTIN {Cutile riparia). 



There was apparently very little movement in July, the only record 

 being that of a single bird killed at St. Tudwal Light (Carnarvon) on 

 the 24th. 



In August many were noted passing on the coast of Yorkshire on 

 the 18th. On the 27th and 28th large numbers were recorded on 

 migration in many places in Scotland, and some were seen going south 

 in Sussex on the 31st. 



From the 1 st to the 3rd of September a gTadual decrease was recorded 

 in Suffolk, and flocks going in a soutlierly direction were observed there 

 on the 18th, 21st, 27th and 29th. Hundreds were passing the Isle of 

 May (Fife) on the 6th, and a large flock, which had passed on by the 

 next day, was noted on the shore in Sussex on the 11th. Sand-Martins 

 were assembling in large numbers in Derby on the 18th, but their 

 nixmbers were greatly reduced on the following day, and the main body 

 of the resident birds left on the 23rd. 



In October a few small flocks were observed flying soiith in Suffolk on 

 the 3rd, and a single bird appeared on Fair Isle (Shetland) on the 11th. 



Sand-Martins were last seen in Cheshire on the 10th of September, in 

 Staffordshire on the 11th, and in Devonshire on the 23rd. 



THE GREENFINCH {LUjurinus chloris). 



Practically the whole of the records of this species relate to the east 

 coast, where migration was most marked, lasting from the last week 

 of September until mid-November. The first movement noticed was on 

 tlie Suffolk coast on the 22nd of September, but migration did not really 

 begin there until the 30th. Though, to a large extent, the movement 

 noticed in that locality was of a southward coasting character, there 

 was ample evidence of a direct oversea migration from the Continent. 

 Greenfinches occurred in numbers at many Scotch light-stations during 

 October, and at several off" the east coast of England, from the Wash to the 

 English Channel (Dungeness), during the latter half of the same month 

 and the first half of November. The birds were noted both by night and 

 by day, and in the latter case their direction was either due W. or S.W. 

 The largest numbers i^ee u t ) have arrived between the 18th and 20th of 

 October. On ihe Suffolk coast southward movements were recorded 

 daily during this month and on five days in the first half of November. 

 In S.E. Suffolk the flocks were observed to be working their way inland 

 on the 18th of October. 



A large flock arrived in Tiree (Inner Hebrides) on the 26th of October 

 and others were observed in Cheshire on the 10th and 21st, in which 

 county Greenfinches were reported as being more than usually plentiful 

 throughout the winter. 



