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THE WOOD- WARBLER. 



Pliylloscopus sibilatrix (Beclist.). 



The records were too meagre to indicate with any certainty 

 the points of arrival of this species, but on the whole it 

 seems to have landed chiefly on the western half of the 

 south coast. 



It was first reported in Devonshire on the 9th of April, 

 and an increase in that county on the 15th indicated that the 

 earlier immigrants at any rate probably entered the country 

 at the western end of the south coast. During the latter 

 half of April the species seems to have gradually spread, 

 in small numbers, principally over the western half of the 

 country, reaching Cumberland on the 22nd and North- 

 umberland on the 28th. Arrivals in larger numbers com- 

 menced on the 27th and continued during the two following- 

 days, further immigrations taking place on the 2nd and 

 3rd and on the 11th of Ma}^. Little could be learned of 

 the route followed by these birds after their arrival, but it was 

 clear that the great majority were destined for breeding- 

 haunts in the west of England, Wales and our northern 

 counties generally. 



Nests with eggs were found in Surrey on the 16th of May, 

 in Somersetshire on the 17th, in Middlesex on the 18th and 

 in Radnorshire on the 21st. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 

 April 



9th. 



Devon. 



13th. 



Surrey. 



loth. 



Devon (increase). 



