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THE TUETLE-DOVE. 



Turtur communis Selby. 



During the last week of April the Turtle-Dove was 

 recorded as arriving singly along the whole of the south 

 coast, but principally in Sussex and Hampshire. 



These early arrivals were supplemented during the 

 whole of May by numerous small immigrations, but there 

 seems to have been no large general movement. The first 

 of these small immigrations struck the Sussex coast on 

 May 2nd and passed rapidly on into Surrey, North Hants 

 and Berkshire, while subsequent arrivals on the Sussex 

 coast during the following week appear to have increased 

 the numbers in these counties, and to have spread in 

 some numbers into Essex. Up till the 8th of May the 

 range of the Turtle-Dove was practically restricted to 

 the south-eastern quarter of England^ but after this date 

 it became gradually distributed throughout the west and 

 north. 



During the latter half of the month small supplementary 

 im.migrations took place on the south coast between 

 Hastings and Hay ling Island; of those arriving at Hayling 

 Island on the 27th some passed on and were noted in 

 Surrey on the foUovdng day. 



An extension westwards of the range of the bird 

 occurred on and after May 8th. There were no corres- 

 ponding records of arrivals on the coast, but it seems 

 probable that an immigration did occur on the south-east 

 coast at about that time, and thence spread westwards. 



Chbonological Summary of the Records. 



April 16. Kent. 

 ,, 25. Sussex. 



