4'') 



THE RING-OUZEL. 



Turd us torqiiafiis, L. 



A SINGLE individual of this species was noted on the Derby- 

 shire and Cheshire border on the 11th of March, and a second 

 in S.W. Yorkshire on the 13th. The first immigration seems 

 to have occurred in the west about the 21:th, and during the 

 two following days penetrated as far north as Yorkshire and 

 Northumberland. Small numbers continued to arrive until 

 about the 8th or 9th of April, when a second immigration 

 occurred, the birds dispersing to their breeding-quarters 

 in the west and north. The records from the midland 

 and south-eastern counties were very scanty and, with the 

 exception of a single bird recorded from Kent on the 27th 

 of March, probably one of those which had previously 

 arrived in the west, it was not until nearly three weeks later 

 that the Ring-Ouzel made its appearance in the south-east. 

 On the 14th of April it was recorded from Middlesex, on the 

 16th from Berkshire and between the 18th and 25th from 

 several localities in Sussex ; these records probably indicated 

 an immigration on the eastern half of the south coast. 



These birds were presumably only passing migrants, as 

 their further course in this country could not be traced and 

 our resident birds had already begun to breed. A nest with 

 four eggs was found in Somerset on the 23rd of April and 

 young a week old were recorded from Wales on the 8th of 

 May. The passage of continental birds appears to have 

 continued in this country for some time, as they were noted 

 in Norfolk as late as the 15th of May. 



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