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THE TREE-PIPIT. 



Anthus trivialis (L.). 



The Tree-Pipit arrived on the south coast as far west as 

 Devonshire, but the majority occurred to the east of 

 Hampshire. 



Between the 30th of March and the 7th of April strag- 

 glers were recorded from several of the south-eastern 

 counties and from Breconshire and Nottinghamshire. 



The first small immigration arrived on the 10th of April, 

 and was recorded during the previous night at the lights on 

 the Channel Islands and the Isle of Wight. Two other 

 small immigrations seem to have landed about the 13th and 

 10th at different points between Sussex and Devonshire. 

 The birds included in these three movements became thinly 

 scattered over the whole of England, as was shown by the 

 records up to the 20th of April. 



A fourth immigration, evidently of greater magnitude, 

 arrived between the 19th and 23rd of April. The earlier 

 part of this movement appears to have landed chiefly on the 

 eastern portion of the south coast, and the birds seem to have 

 spread rapidly through the south-eastern counties to the 

 eastern Midlands ; while the later arrivals, coming in farther 

 west, spread northwards through Wales and the western 

 Midlands. 



A fifth immigration appears to have arrived about the 

 27th or 28th of April, and to have contained a number of 

 birds that passed on quickly into the northernmost counties. 



Further immigrations took place on the 1st, 5th 6th and 

 11th of May in Sussex and Hampshire, and perhaps farther 

 west, and were recorded also at the Channel Islands on the 



