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the south-east of Enoland and that not a single instance 

 o£ its occurrence was reported from Sussex, Essex^ Suffolk, 

 Berkshire or Oxfordshire, while from the other counties in 

 this area the records were extremely meagre. 



A nest with six eggs was found in Staffordshire on the 

 19th of May. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 14. Cheshire. 



„ 21. Gloucester, Lancashire. 



„ 22. Leicester. 



„ 23. Devon, Wilts, Norfolk, Derby, Cumberland. 



„ 24. Somerset, Cambridge, Stafford, Shropshire, 



Flint, Isle of Man, Yorkshire. 

 „ 25. Surrey, Carnarvon. 



„ 26. Carnarvon (increase). Denbigh, Northumber- 

 land. 

 „ 27. Shropshire (slight increase). Glamorgan, 



Carmarthen. 

 „ 28. Cambridge (slight increase). Worcester, 



Merioneth. 

 „ 29. CJornwall. 



„ 30. Denbigh (slight increase). Hereford. 

 May 1. Lancashire (increase). Middlesex, Bedford. 

 „ 2. Stafford (increase). Yorkshire and Isle of 



Man (slight increase). Devon, Wilts. 

 „ 3. Carmarthen and Cumberland (increase^. 



Somerset (slight increase). Hants, Lincoln, 



Westmoreland. 

 „ 4. Hants and Isle of Man (slight increase). 



Buckingham. 

 ,, 5. Lancashire (slight increase). Herts, Warwick. 

 „ 6. Kent. 



„ 7. Kent, Herts and Denbigh (slight increase). 

 „ 8. Cornwall, Durham. 

 „ 9. Hants (increase). 

 „ 10. Kent (decrease). Northampton. 



