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scattered and augmented the small numbers already present 

 in the south-western counties, an increase being recorded 

 from Devon on the 11th and Dorset on the 12th, the Cornish 

 birds having at the same time somewhat decreased. Others 

 seem to have gone north-east and east, being recorded from 

 Gloucester and Worcester on the 12th, and from Hereford, 

 Essex and Surrey on the 13th ; on the 14th a number appear 

 to have reached Berkshire and a few were recorded from 

 Notts and Sussex. 



The tldrd immigration reached the coast of Devon on April 

 the 13th, and appears to have passed rapidly northward, as 

 some of the birds were noticed over Lundy Island on the same 

 day and the numbers had fallen again on the 14th, wh3n 

 they were recorded from Grlamorgan, Derby, Denbigh, and 

 Shropshire. Other birds passed through Derby on the 15th, 

 and the main body through Lancashire on the 16th, arriving 

 in S.W. Scotland on the same day. A second portion of this 

 immigration arrived in Dorset and Hampshire on the 14th 

 and 15th ; some of the birds appear to have spread northwards 

 following the earlier arrivals and to have reached Shropshire 

 and Radnor on the 16th and Cumberland on the 17th ; but 

 the main body apparently took an easterly and north-easterly 

 route, reaching Sussex on the 15th, Essex, Kent, and Oxford 

 on the 16th, Berkshire and Cambridge on the 17th, and 

 Lincoln, Notts, and Yorkshire on the 18th. 



The fourth immigration reached the coasts of Devon 

 and Dorset on April the 17th and Dorset and Hampshire on 

 the 18th. The western birds again passed rapidly northwards 

 through Somerset on the 17th, Shropshire on the 18th, 

 and reached Yorkshire on the 21st. 



Most of the later arrivals in Dorset seem to have followed 

 the earlier ones, passing through Somerset and Statford- 

 shire on the 19th, Radnor on the 20th, Cheshire and 

 Lancashire on^the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, Westmoreland on 

 the latter date, and reached Dumfriesshire on the 26th. 



The Hampshire birds seem to have spread more locally, 

 stocking the neighbouring counties and spreading into 

 Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Essex on Iho 18th, Berkshire and 



