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THE GARDEN- WARBLER. 



Sylvia hortensis Bechst. 



The Garden-Warbler appears to have arrived at first in 

 small numbers on the western half of the south coast about 

 the second week in April, and to have spread thence in a 

 northerly and north-easterly direction, reaching Hereford on 

 the 13th and 14th, Yorkshire on the 19th, Essex on the 

 21st, and Nottingham on the 23rd. A few additional birds 

 apparently spread into Yorkshire on the 26th and into 

 Durham and Lancashire on the 29th and 30th and on May 

 the 1st. 



A second immigration appears to have taken place along 

 the same part of our south coast during the first few days of 

 May, but as it was not recorded on the coast, its actual point 

 of arrival was difficult to determine. In any case there was 

 certainly an increase in Somerset on May the 4:th, and on the 

 same day we received the first records from South Wales. 

 On the 7th these birds reached Merioneth on the west and 

 Cambridge on the east, and on the 11th they had got as far 

 north as Yorkshire, while the more eastern individuals 

 reached Norfolk on the 14th and Lincoln on the 16th and 

 17th. The extension eastwards of this species seems to have 

 been very gradual, for with the exception of one or two 

 birds recorded from Essex during the last week in April, 

 there were no records from the south-east until May the oth, 

 when a single bird was recorded from Suffolk ; a second 

 was reported from Norfolk on May the 10th, and it was 

 not till after that date that the breeding-stock arrived in 

 the south-east. 



About May the 10th a thb'd immigration seems to have 

 come in. Some of the birds, following the same line of coagt 

 as the two previous ones', travelled north and north-east, 



