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The tJdrd immigration, also a large one, Legan on April 

 the 21st with the arrival ot" a few birds on the Kent coast, the 

 main body arriving in Hampshire on the following day. It 

 seems to have followed much the same lines of its predecessor, 

 having been noticed in Somerset and Glamorgan on the 23rd, 

 but its further progress could not be traced. 



The fourth and fifth immigrations were quite small as 

 regards numbers, but were noticed in Kent and Hampshire 

 on the 24th and 25th of April and in Hampshire on the 28th. 

 They seem to have furnished part of the breeding-stock of 

 the south-eastern and eastern counties, as an increase was 

 noticed in Cambridge on May the 1st, in Surrey on the 3rd, 

 in Hertford on the 4th, and in Cambridge and Suffolk on 

 the 7th. 



The sixth immigration seems to have included a small 

 number of birds arriving on the Devonshire coast on May 

 the 3rd. These were noticed in Somerset on the following 

 day and in Cardigan on the 10th. 



The seventh immigration affected the south coast from Kent 

 to Dorset on May the 8th, 9th, and 10th, the main arrival 

 taking place in Somerset and Dorset on the last-named date. 

 The earlier arrivals seem to have reached Stafford and Shrop- 

 shire on the 10th and 12th and Yorkshire on the 13th, while 

 the main body passed through Somerset, Glamorgan, and 

 Buckinghamshire on the 12th, Suffolk, Surrey, and Berk- 

 shire on the 13th, Norfolk on the 14th, and Lincolnshire on 

 the 17th. 



The eighth immigration, which seems to have consisted 

 largely of females, occurred on the south coast from Sussex 

 to Dorset between the 14th and 16th of May, but the number 

 of birds being small and those already in the country large, 

 it could not be traced, though there was a slight increase in 

 Somerset on the 16th and in N. Wales on the 22nd. 



The ninth, and last immigration of which we have any 

 evidence, reached the Hampshire lights on the 22nd and 23rd 

 of May. Only females were noticed, and owing to the 

 majority of the birds having already settled down, further 

 progress could not be traced. 



