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in Gloucestershire on the 20th, and in Dorset on the 26th of 

 April. It will thus be seen that by that date the birds were 

 settling down in their haunts throughout the country, though 

 frequent fluctuations in various counties, and records of 

 further immigrants at the Hampshire lights on the nights 

 of the 20th/2Jst and 23rd /24th, showed that numbers were 

 still arriving and passing through the country; this continued 

 up to the third week in May. 



Nesting had commenced in Kent on the 2'th of April, 

 and in Cornwall on the 2nd of May. Nests wilh eggs were 

 found in Devon on the 30th of April, in GlamorLfan on the 

 8th of May, and in Surrey and Staffordshire on the lltb 

 and 12th of that month. 



Chronological Summary of the Eecords. 



Feb. 3. Cornwall. 

 March 17. Hants, Surrey. 



„ 19. Hants (slight increase). 



„ 22. Leicester. 



„ 23. Hants (decrease). Yorkshire (many). 



„ 24. Yorkshire (decrease). Sussex. 



„ 27. Sussex (increase). Devon. 



„ 27/28. Hants light. 



„ 28. Bedford. 



„ 28/29. Hants light. 



„ 29. Cornwall, Berks, Brecon. 



„ 29/30. Hants iight. 



,, oO. Leicester (slight increase). Somerset, Suffolk, 

 Shropshire, Derby. 



„ 31. Dorset. 

 April 1. Oxford, Herts, Isle of Man. 



„ 2. Northampton (increase). Denbigh. 



„ 3-. Warwick. 



,, 4. Leicester (increase). Cambridge, Glamorgan. 



„ 5. Kent (large increase). Cornwall, Devon and 

 Shropshire (increase). Carmarthen, Car- 

 narvon. 



