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progress of some of. these western migrants being indicated 

 by the records from Bardsey light and from the Mull of 

 Galloway. 



A second immigration landed along the whole of the 

 south coast on the 2nd and 3rd of May, but the records 

 from inland localities did not permit of its progress being 

 traced, though there were sufficient indications to show that 

 a proportion of these birds travelled north along the east and 

 west coasts. 



No further immigrations were actually recorded on the 

 south coast, with the exception of a rather doubtful one on the 

 10th of May. The passage past the Caskets light, however, 

 started afresh on the night of the 4th, and Sedge-Warblers 

 occurred there in enormous numbers every night up to 

 the 11th and in decreasing numbers on the three following 

 nights. We have no evidence that any of these birds 

 reached our shores, but on several nights considerable 

 numbers were evidently passing northwards up both sides 

 of the Irish Sea to more northern summer-haunts. Small 

 numbers were again seen at this light on the night of 

 the 19th, and a single bird was taken there on the following 

 night. 



Sedge- Warblers were building in Cheshire on the 1st of 

 May and a nest was found in Essex on the 7th, while nesis 

 with eggs were reported from Wiltshire on the 5th, from 

 Radnorshire and Derbyshire on the 24th and from Kent on 

 the 25th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 7th. Hants (passing). 



„ 11th. Hants. 



15th. Suffolk. 



17th. Norfolk. 



„ 18th. Norfolk (decrease). Wilts. 



.„ 19th. Somerset. 



,, 20th. Berks, Cambridge, Shropshire. 



21st. Yorkshire. 



