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on April the 29th, followed by an increase in Surrey on 

 May the 1st and 3rd. Several birds reached Hertford on the 

 3rd, and others visited Essex, Cambridge, and Suffolk on 

 the 4th, Oxford on the 5th, and Norfolk on the 6th. 



Between the 4th and 9 th of May this species continued to 

 arrive daily in Hampshire, causing an increase during that 

 period in most of the south-eastern counties ; while at the 

 same time a certain number appear to have gone westward 

 and were recorded from Dorset on the 8th, fi*om Glamorgan 

 on the 9th, Oxford on the 10th, and Shropshire on the 11th. 



By the 15th some of the birds in the south-east had 

 already laid their eggs. There is a certain amount of evidence 

 that a further arrival took place on the coasts of Sussex and 

 Hampshire on the 17th and 18th, but its movements could not 

 be followed. 



As regards the few birds reported from time to time in 

 the south-west, it seems most likely that they worked their 

 way west from Hampshire, where they arrived during the 

 first and second immigrations; the fact that few were recorded 

 in the intervening country is not surprising, as the numbers, 

 moving westwards were very small. In some years this 

 species visits Devonshire in fair numbers, but as a rule it is 

 a very rare straggler to that county. Mr. D' Urban reported 

 its arrival during the first week in May near Exeter, where 

 two pairs had settled down. 



Mr. D'Urban further noted that the Nightingale occurred 

 and bred almost every year in the Teign Valley. The nest of 

 one of the pairs near Exeter was found by our correspondent 

 Mr. Rousham towards the end of May, in a locality which 

 the birds had not visited for many years. 



We may also note that our observer at Launceston, on the 

 borders of Devon and Cornwall, remarks that the Nightineale 

 is " never seen at Launceston.'' 



It may likewise be noted that with the exception of the 

 single record of two birds from Pontefract in Yorkshire, 

 it did not occur north of a line through Shropshire, 

 Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire ; while the only Welsh 

 county where it was heard was Glamorgan. 



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