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THE WRYNECK. 



lynct torquilla, L, 



On the llth and 25tli of March single birds were recorded 

 from Hampshire and Surrey respectively, and on the 26th a 

 third was seen in Cornwall. This last record, received from 

 a very careful observer, is worthy of note, since the species 

 is very rare in spring on the south-west coast and the bird 

 seen may possibly have wintered there ; another bird, un- 

 doubtedly on passage, was taken at Lundy Island, South 

 light, on the night of May 9th/10th. Between the 28th of 

 March and the 3rd of April a few birds arrived on the 

 south-east coast between Suffolk and Hampshire^ and the 

 same counties were visited by a further immigration between 

 the 8th and 10th, these later arriviils spreading as far as 

 Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire and Northamp- 

 tonshire. A third immigration was in progress on the llth 

 and 15th, and, on the first-named date, a bird was observed 

 in Shropshire, the most northerly point recorded in 1910. 

 The immigrations of the Wryneck occurred almost invariably 

 in the south-eastern counties, but a small party appears to 

 have arrived in Somerset on the 27th of April ; the birds 

 may have passed along the south-east coast without stopping, 

 but there is no evidence to show whence they came. The last 

 immigration, which was important enough to be noticeable 

 over a larg-e area, landed on the south-east coast between the 

 3rd and the 6th of May. 



Nesting operations had commenced in Berkshire on the 

 5th, and in Sussex and Suffolk on the loth of May. 



