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Hampshire was the county most favoured as a point o£ 

 arrival, but it should be remembered that this county receives 

 stragglers from flocks arriving both in Devonshire and in 

 Sussex, and thus it forms one of the main landing-places 

 along the south coast ; Devonshire, Dorset, and Sussex come 

 next, and lastly,, Kent. Birds actually arriving on the east 

 coast were few, but the evidence points to a considerable 

 emigration from Norfolk of birds which arrived in Devon or 

 Hampshire and took a north-easterly route. 



The west of England was in many cases populated before 

 the east and south-east. This was perhaps most marked 

 in the case of the Yellow Wagtail, a bird which arrived 

 on the south-east corner, but nevertheless nests were recorded 

 from the west before the main body of the females had settled 

 in Kent. 



A well-defined route, followed by various streams of 

 immigrants, passes due north from Devon, through Wales 

 and the western Counties to Scotland. In the case of some 

 species, which arrived along the whole of the south coast, 

 the direction of flight was due north, but their western flank 

 was invariably in advance of the eastern. A few species which 

 arrived on the south and south-east, held a north-westerly 

 course and so reached Wales, and it was birds of these 

 species, e. ij. the Yellow Wagtail and the Nightingale, that 

 were scarce in our south-western counties. Another route, 

 followed by the House-Martin, started from Devon in a north- 

 easterly direction, and passed out of the county via Norfolk. 

 This was a course followed by a few immigrations of some 

 of the species, which normally followed a different route, 

 but whether the deviation in these cases was due to weatlier- 

 conditions, or whether the immio-rants were travelling on a 

 normal course to a continental breeding - ground, was 

 not clear. 



F. G. Penrose, Chairman. 



C. B. RiCKETT. 

 C. B. TiCEHURSST. 

 N. F. TiCEHURST. 



J. L. BoNHOTE, Secretarij. 



