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recorded from the Northumberland coast and the Humber district 

 between the 20th and 2ord, from N.E. Suffolk on the 23rd, and S.E. 

 Suffolk on the 24tb ; these were followed by what was evidently 

 another extensive immigration at the end of the month, arrivals being 

 recorded at the Pentland Skerries (Orkney), Bass Rock (Forth), and the 

 Yorkshire and Suffolk coasts on the 2Sth, and on the Yorkshire coast 

 on the 31st. Simultaneously Woodcocks were arriving in some numbers 

 on the west coast, b;ing recorded from Barra Head, the Butt of Lewis, 

 Bardsey and Skerries Lights on the 28th and 29th, while a single bird was 

 taken at the Seven Stones Light- vessel (Isles of Scilly) on the 30th/31st. 



Inland, " first arrivals " were noted in Staffordshire on the 11th of 

 October, in S. Devon on the 17th, in Denbigh on the 23rd, in Surrey on 

 the 27th, and in Lincoln on the 30th. A slight increase was noted in 

 S. Devon on the 2ud of November, and in Denbigh during the second week 

 of that month. lu Hampshire and S. Devon, Woodcocks were reported 

 as very scarce throughout the first half of the winter, and it was not 

 until the 9th of January, 1911, that a considerable number arrived in the 

 latter district. 



Single birds occurred at St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) on 

 the 14th/loth of October and the 24th/25th of November, and at Coquet 

 Island Light on the 22nd/23rd and Bardsey Light on the 23rd/24th of 

 November. 



THE COMMON SNIPE {Gallinago ccelestis). 



A well-marked passage of what were no doubt British-bred birds 

 was noticed in Cheshire between the last week of July and mid- August. 

 In Denbio'h a similar passage seems to have taken place between the 29th 

 of August and the 8th of September, the local-bred birds taking their 

 departure during the same period. As early as the 1st of August the 

 local-bred birds in N.W. Sufiblk were noted as beginning to leave to the 

 westward, while early in September vast numbers had congregated near 

 the coast in the S.E. of that county ; these broke up into small parties 

 and left on the 7th and 8th. 



The first arrival of immigrants on the east coast was recorded in 

 N.W. Suffolk on the 10th of October, and these were followed by others 

 in S.E. Suffolk on the 18th, 19th, 22nd and 25th, on the 10th and 12th of 

 November and on the 6th of December, in N.E. Suffolk on the 18th and 

 31st of October, and in Northumberland on the 14th and25th of November. 

 On the west coast arrivals were recorded in Tiree (I. Hebrides) on the 

 10th, at the Welsh Skerries on the 23rd, and at the Butt of Lewis 

 (0. Hebrides) on the 25th of October, while a single bird was taken at 

 Bardsey Light (Carnarvon) on the 25th /26th of November. 



Inland increases were noticed in S. Somerset on the 28th of October, in 

 Hampshire on the 2nd, in Denbigh on the 28th of November, and in 

 S. Devon at the end of December. 



