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THE RING-OUZEL. 



Turdus torquatus L. 



The records of this species were so scanty that it was 

 impossible to trace its arrival or movements through the 

 country with any certainty. The first arrival reported was 

 that of a single bird in Shropshire on the 9th of March. Up 

 to the end of the month stray birds were recorded in Hamp- 

 shire, Wiltshire, Brecon, Merioneth, Derbyshire, Nottingham- 

 shire and Yorkshire. There was an increase in the last-named 

 county on the 9 th of April, and a great increase on the 12th. 

 On the 17th an arrival was noted in Sussex, but all the 

 other records referred to stragglers, chiefly single birds. 



Only two examples were reported from the light-stations, 

 viz., one killed at Anvil Point (Dorset) on the 14th, and one 

 at St. Catherine's (Isle of Wight) on the night of the 16th 

 of April. 



Ring-Ouzels were reported to be nesting in Yorkshire on 

 the 17th of April, and to have hatched their young in Derby- 

 shire on the 9th of May. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



March 



April 



9. 



Shropshire. 



13. 



Derby. 



15. 



Nottingham. 



19. 



Hants. 



20. 



Wilts, Merioneth. 



28. 



Yorkshire. 



29. 



Brecon. 



4. 



Denbigh, Cheshire, 



5. 



Carmarthen. 



