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THE REED-WARBLER. 



AcrocepJialus streperus (VieilL). 



Four Reed-Wavblers were observed in Buckinghamshire on 

 the 5th o£ April, an unusually early date. These were the 

 only examples recorded in that county. Two days later six 

 were seen in Kent, but no general immigration seems to have 

 occurred till the 24th and 25th o£ April. From the latter 

 date onwards to the 2nd of May large numbers were noted 

 in Kent, and about the same time (from the 23rd to the 

 28th of April) first arrivals or increases were recorded in the 

 southern and eastern counties, i. e. in Dorset, Hampshire, 

 Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Suflfolk, Essex and 

 Cambridgeshire. 



About the 5th of May another immigration seems to have 

 taken place and many of these birds were seen near Cam- 

 bridge, where they had apparently settled down. Small 

 additional numbers were noticed in Bedfordshire, Suffolk, 

 Berkshire and Warwickshire. By the 14th of May they had 

 reached Lancashire. 



A large increase, reported in Essex on the 12th of May, 

 may perhaps have indicated a fresh wave of immigration. 



The only lighthouse-record of this species was from 

 St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, where, on the night of the 

 14th/15th of May, a single bird was killed during a large 

 immigration of many different species. The wind was north- 

 easterly and the weather cloudy. 



A pair of Reed-Warblers were observed nesting in Kent 

 on the 10th of May, and a nest with four eggs was found in 

 Lancashire on the 17th of that month. 



