Aug, 



24tli. 



Sept. 



lst/2nd. 



>j 



3rd. 



j> 



6th/7th. 



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17tli. 



)} 



26th. 



jj 



28tli to 





Oct. 1st. 



5; 



2Sth. 



V 



29th. 



Oct. 



4th. 



» 



13th. 



J) 



17th. 



}> 



18th. 



Nov. 



4th. 



Dec. 



18th. 



206 



N. Staffui'dshh'e, all gone from breeding-haunts. 

 Eddystone Lt. (Cornwall), one killed. 

 N. Staffordshire, two passing. 

 Eddystone Lt., two. 



S. Yorkshire coast, one arrived in the afternoon. 

 Isle of May (Fife), a few arrived ; S. Yorkshire coast, 

 four arrived. 



S. Yorkshire coast, one seen daily. 



Isle of May, numbers arrived. 



Isle of May^ all gone ; Lincolnshire coast, one seen. 



S. Yorkshire coast, one arrived ; Flannau Isles Lt. 



(Outer Hebrides), some. 

 N.E. Hampshire, one seen. 



Butt of Lewis Lt. (Outer Hebrides), three killed. 

 Isle of May, one passing ; S. Yorkshire coast, one 



arrived ; Tarbatness Lt. (Moray Firth), three killed ; 



Fair Isle (Shetland), several. 

 Pentland Skerries Lt. (Orkney,, one. 

 Fair Isle, one. 



THE WHEATEAR (Saxicola oenanthe). 

 Some of the resident Wheatears in the northern midland counties began 

 to move south at the end of July and a few were noted on passage at the 

 Isle of May (Fife) on the 28th; by the end of the first week in August 

 the movement had become general. The birds had mostly left the South 

 Downs by the 7th and a day later their places had been taken by 

 migrants. The local residents in S. Yorkshire seem to have left on the 

 night of the 22nd. At intervals throughout the mouth passing migrants 

 were recorded from many localities in the midland and southern counties, 

 and the process of collecting in the neighbourhood of the south coast 

 was very marked from the second week onwards. From the 12th to the 

 end of the month a gradual accumulation took place on Hayling Island 

 (Hants), and though it is evident from other records that departures must 

 have taken place, the steady stream of arrivals exceeded the departures, 

 so that our observer at that station was only able to chronicle the 

 increase, and by the end of the month the numbers had reached 

 prodigious proportions. Large numbers appear to have arrived at the 

 Hampshire coast on the 18th and others were recorded from the 

 South Downs on the 22nd and 29th, at the Dorset coast on the 26th, and 

 in E. Kent on the 27t]]. There does not appear to have been any 

 increase further west than the Dorset coast uutil quite the end of the 

 month. In the meantime a certain amount of movement was noticed on 

 the vA'est coast ; a single bird was taken at the Flannan Island Light 

 (Outer Hebrides) on the 10th ; a few were recorded from Bardsey Light 

 (Carnarvon) on the 14th/loth, amongst them being one at least of the 



