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contained the largest number of birds that had yet arrived and 

 filled up many of the areas in the territory already occupied ; 

 the second portion furnished a large part of the breeding- 

 birds of Wales and also caused a northward extension of the 

 bird's range to Yorkshire and Cumberland, which were 

 reached by successive parties on the 3rd and 5th of May. 

 Subsequently three further migrations arrived mainly from 

 Hampshire westwards and were recorded on the 5th, 6th and 

 7th, on the 11th and on the 13th ; some of the birds appear 

 to have travelled north through the eastern counties to York- 

 shire, but the larger proportion were unobserved, being lost 

 amongst the numbers already present in the country. 



A nest with eo-gs was found in Glamorganshire on the 

 26th of April. Blackcaps were reported to be nesting in 

 Kent on the 28th of April and in Berkshire on the 4th of 

 May, while nests with eggs were found in Kent on the 4th, 

 in Devonshire on the 6th, in Hampshire and Essex on the 

 7th, in Somersetshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire on the 

 13th, in Worcestershire on the 14th and in Surrey on the 

 18th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 

 1912. 



Dec. 



29th. 



Bucks (male captured). 



1913. 





Jan. 



25th. 



Somerset (female seen). 



Feb. 



1st. 



Devon (a pair). 



Mar. 



20th. 



Suffolk. 



?? 



21st. 



Kent. 



>i 



23rd. 



Berks. 



55 



27th. 



Hants. 



ii 



31st. 



Somerset, Wilts. 



April 



2nd. 



Devon, Berks. 



55 



3rd. 



Hants, Sussex, Somerset, Surrey. 



55 



4th. 



Worcester. 



53 



7th. 



Kent, 



35 



8th. 



Bocks. 



8th/9th. Channel Islands and Hants lights. 



