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The Little Bunting (Ember iza pusilla). Two or three arrived, Isle of 

 May (Fife), September 28th ; one, Fair Isle (Shetland), 528th and 

 30th ; one, Isle of May, 29th ; three arrived, Fair Isle, October 1st ; 

 and single birds were seen, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 11th. 



The Reed-Bunting (Emberiza schceniclus) . Tavo passing, Rusthall 

 Common (Kent), September 10th and 13th ; one passing, Tun- 

 bridge Wells (Kent), 22nd ; one arrived, Isle of May (Fife), 24th; 

 two or three passing, Spurn Head (Yorkshire), 26th and 27th, 

 and one or two on 30th ; some arrived, Pentland Skerries and 

 Auskerry (Orkney), 28th, and small arrivals took place there up 

 to October 5th ; two arrivals, Holy Island (Northumberland), 

 September 29th ; three passing, Tunbridge Wells, October 7th ; 

 further arrivals, Fair Isle (Shetland), Auskerry aud Pentland 

 Skerries, 11th to 30th; increase, Or ford (Suffolk), 11th; one 

 arrived, Holy Island, 1st, none 2nd to 7th, three 8th, one 9th, 

 four 10th, none 11th and 12th, five 13th, none 14th to 16th, one 

 17th, none 18th ; many, Fair Isle, 13th and 14th ; one, taken on a 

 boat in the North Sea, about 24th ; twenty, Carnarvon Bay Lt.-v. 

 October 25th/26th; single birds, Pentland Skerries. November 

 5th and Flannan Isles (Outer Hebrides), November 18th and 

 December 13th. 



The Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus) . Two arrived, Fair 

 Isle (Shetland), September 14th, three on the 17th and 19th, two 

 on 20th and single birds on October 2nd, 17th and 22nd ; single 

 birds, Yarmouth (Norfolk), September 23rd and November 5th. 



The Hose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus). Male shot, Pevensey 

 (Sussex), June 22nd. 



The Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes). One seen, Gunton (Nor- 

 folk), October 26th ; one seen, Brede (Sussex), November 16th ; 

 pair shot (slender-billed), Wartling (Sussex), December 26th 

 and 28th. 



The Jay (Garrulus glandarius). Increase, Grange-over-Sands (Lanca- 

 shire), October 8th ; great influx, near Canterbury (Kent), 16th 

 to 18th. 



The Wood-Lark (Alauda arborea). Single birds arrived, Isle of May 

 (Fife), September 29th, Fair Isle (Shetland), October 9th and 

 Auskerry (Orkney), 26th. 



The Shore-Lark (Otocorys alpestris). Male, S.E. Suffolk coast, 

 October 12th and four or five on 19th ; three, Yarmouth (Nor- 

 folk), 14th, one on October 17th and November 5th, 8th and 11th 

 and three on 12th ; one, Fair Isle (Shetland), October 17th ; about 

 fourteen, N. Cotes (Lincolnshire), November 5th. 



The Nightjar (Caprimidgus europceus). One seen, Black Mountain 

 (1400 ft.) (Carmarthen), August 12th ; last heard, Hindhead 

 (Surrey), 14th ; young in down, Littlesea Heath (Dorset), 17th ■ 

 two seen, Wareham (Dorset), 29th ; one, Wyre Forest (Shrop- 



