the 28tli and into KShropshire on the oOth ; others took a 

 more easterly direction, reaching Essex and Suffolk on 

 the 2Gth ; while a third portion went north-east, reaching 

 Nottingham and Yorkshire on the 27th. 



The main flight began on March the 27th with the appear- 

 ance of a small number of birds in Devon, followed by a 

 somewhat larger arrival in Dorset and Hampshire on the 

 following day. On the 29th and 30th a further immigration 

 took place into Devon, followed by a smaller one into Hamp- 

 shire on the 31st, while larger bodies reached Dorset and 

 Hampshire on April the 1st and 2nd, each of these move- 

 ments being noted at the different lighthouses. 



The eastern extremity of this flight on April the 2nd may 

 have extended over the Sussex border as far as Brighton, 

 but this and possibly one on April the 28th were the only 

 records of the arrival of this species to the east of the Isle of 

 Wight. 



On April the 4th a small number came into Cornwall and 

 a large number into Devon, on the 6th Dorset was the chief 

 point of arrival, on the 7th additional numbers reached Dorset 

 and Devon, while on the 8th another small immigration 

 appeared in Cornwall. 



The early comers, which were comparatively few in number, 

 seem to have taken a northerly and north-easterly direction 

 like the previous small immigrations, and by the 31st the more 

 easterly ones had reached Suffolk and the more northerly ones 

 Worcester and Cheshire. 



The larger numbers which arrived somewhat later were all 

 trending in the same directions, and there is very little 

 evidence of their following any more westerly route through 

 Wales. The edge of the spreading movement seems to have 

 passed up the line of the Welsh border through Somerset, 

 Wiltshire, Gloucester, Worcester, Shropshire and Cheshire 

 into Lancashire and Yorkshire ; and the records indicate 

 that the Welsh birds were stragglers from this edge of the 

 migratory wave. 



The birds at the eastern end of the area of arrival spread 

 still further east through BerkshirOj Surrey and Sussex into 



