on the 30th that the birds reached the Midlands in any 

 numbers, while Wales, except in the extreme south, was 

 still sparsely populated, and only a few odd birds had pene- 

 trated as far north as Lincolnshire on the eastern side. 



The birds that arrived during the first six days of April 

 seem to have settled mainly in the territory already occu- 

 pied, though by the 9th they had ranged on the western side 

 as far as Westmoreland. On the 9th and 10th two small 

 immigrations landed in Hampshire, but their presence was 

 not very evident from the records. A movement of larger 

 dimensions arrived on the western half of the south coast 

 on the 14th, and evidently included a considerable part of 

 the breeding-birds of East Anglia, Lincolnshire, and York- 

 shire, while it caused an extension of the bird's range into 

 Cumberland, the Isle of Man and the west of Scotland. 



A series of arrivals between Dorsetshire and Sussex fol- 

 lowed almost daily, from the 18th to the 22nd of April. 

 These seem to have contained the greater proportion of the 

 breeding-birds for northern and western Wales, Lancashire, 

 Cumberland and Northumberland, but the more eastern 

 arrivals could hardly be traced for any distance into the 

 country. 



With the advent of these birds most of our breeding-stock 

 seems to have arrived, but migrants continued to be recorded 

 at the lights in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Wight, 

 as well as here and there in the southern coastal counties 

 until the 8th of May. The numbers, however, seem to have 

 been small, and their progress through the country could not 

 be traced. 



Chiffchaffs were building in Hampshire on the 24th of 

 April, in Kent on the 27th, and in Glamorganshire and 

 Middlesex on the 28th. A nest was found in Suffolk on the 

 1st of May and in Carmarthenshire on the 4th, while nests 

 with eggs were found in Somersetshire on the 23rd of April, 

 in Gloucestershire on the 9th of May, in Sussex on the 10th, 

 in Glamorganshire on the 17th ; in Surrey on the 18th and 

 in Staffordshire on the 19th. 



