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THE WOOD- WARBLER. 



Pliylloscopus sihilatrix (Bechst.). 



The first Wood- Warbler was observed in Middlesex on 

 the 12th of April, and was reported as being in an exhausted 

 condition. Several individuals were noticed in Leicestershire 

 and Derbyshire on the 18th, but the earliest records of the 

 species from the southern coast were from Dorset on the 20th 

 and from Hampshire on the 21st. A pair were recorded from 

 Northumberland on the 22nd and 23rd of April, an unusually 

 early date for such a northern locality. By the 25th the records 

 had become more numerous and an immigration must have 

 occurred. Fiist arrivals in Kent, Radnor and Denbigh were 

 reported on the 25th, and from Somerset, Berkshire, Carnarvon, 

 Merioneth, Cheshire and Westmoreland on the two following 

 days. Between the 2nd and the 5th of May the species 

 became much more plentiful and an increase was noticed 

 especially in the western counties of England and in Wales. 



The only lighthouse records were received from St. Cathe- 

 rine's, Isle of Wight, where five Wood- Warblers were noted 

 amongst the birds killed during the large immigrations on 

 the nights of the 13th/14th and 14th/15th of May. It is not 

 possible to connect these records with those of the inland 

 observers, except that numbers of these birds were noticed in 

 Dorset on the 15th of May, while an increase was recorded 

 in Wiltshire and Surrey on the 20th and in Bedfordshire on 

 the 21st. 



Wood- Warblers were reported to be nesting in Sussex on 

 the 5th of May, in Derbyshire on the 9th, and in Dorset on 

 the 19th. Eggs were found in Radnor as early as the 5th of 

 May, and in Surrey on the 20th. 



Observations from the eastern counties were very scanty ; 



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