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Aug. •JTthj'ISth. Watford (Herts), single birds passing to S.W. at 

 6.15 P.M. and 12,30 a.m. ; Timbridge Wells, niuubers 

 to S.W. at 10.45 P.M. 



„ 28th. Sunderland (Durham), one flj'ing S. 



„ 31st. Scarborough, one seen ; Sunderland, three seen. 



Sept. 2nd. Hampshire coast, last seen. 



„ 3rd. Lowestoft, one flying S.W. at 3 p.m. 



„ 8th. Lowestoft, one flying S.S.W. 



,, 10th. Scarborough, one passing; Kent coast, one seen. 



„ 26th. Isle of May (Fife), some passing. 



THE SANDWICH TERN (Sfernrt cantiaca). 



jlost of tlie breeding-hirds abandoned their summer-quarters in Cum- 

 berland before the end of July, and all had gone by the 6th of August. 

 On the 23rd a flock was seen flying south in mid-Fife, while on the 29th 

 and 30th the first arrivals were noted on passage on the Norfolk and 

 Yorkshire coasts. Flocks were flying south past the Isle of May (Fife) 

 all dav on the 9th of September, one or two were noted off the Kent 

 coast on the 7th and 10th, while a considerable passage occurred along 

 the north coast of Norfolk on the 19th and 21st. Single birds were 

 noted as late as the 11th of October off" the Yorkshire coast, and on the 

 16th of November off the Fifeshire coast. 



THE COMMON TERN {Sterna Jluviatilh) and 

 ARCTIC TERN {Sterna macrura). 



The only notes received of these species were from the east coast. 

 Common Terns were already leaving their nesting-haunts on the Suffolk 

 coast by the 12th of August, and most of them had gone both from there 

 and from the Kent breeding-area by the 1st of September, while the Fame 

 Islands were completely abandoned by the 4th. Many Common Terns 

 arrived on passage off"Lowestoft on the loth of August, and the passage of 

 large numbers (probably of both species) was recorded along the whole 

 of the east coast from Fifeshire to Essex between tlie 28th of August and 

 the 9th of September. There were still a good many off" Orfordness 

 (Suffolk) on the 18th of September ; many were still passing south along 

 the Durham coast on the 2nd of October, a few were seen off the 

 S.E. Suffolk coast as late as the 1st and 8th, while an Arctic Tern was 

 killed at Suleskerry Light (Orkney) on the 7th, and two Common Terns 

 were .seen in Leicestershire on the 18th. 



