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Dorset coast on the 1st, 23rd and 2J:tli (large numbers on the last two 

 iates) ; and from the Isle of Wight on the nights of the 7th, 10th, 12th, 

 i5th, 16th and 20th, as well as during the day on the 14th, when the 

 numbers were very large, the night movements at this station being com- 

 paratively small. From the Sussex coast small emigrations took place on 

 the 5th, 17th/18th and 19th, and from the Kent coast between the KJth 

 and 20th. After the 25th of September the records indicate that the 

 bulk of the "Wheatears had departed and refer to stragglers only ; the 

 records came from widely separated localities, the only ones showing 

 any continuity being those from the east coast, where the movements of 

 small numbers were reported up to the 21st of October. The latest record 

 from the English lights noted four seen flying towards the Norfolk coast 

 at Smith's Knoll Light-vessel on the 5th, though further north Wheatears 

 occurred at the Isle of May on the 7th, Fair Isle on the 12th, the Butt 

 of Lewis on the 17th, and the Flannans on the 31st. 



In addition to the early record from Bardsey already referred to, 

 Greenland Wheatears were also noted on passage at Dunnet Head (Caith- 

 ness) on August the 30th, at the Mull of Galloway on September the 

 12th, at St. Catherine's Light on September the 16th/17th, in W. Kent 

 on September the 16th, 17th and 18th, at Planois Light (Guernsey) on 

 the 18th/19th, at the Isle of May (Fife) on the 20th, 26th and October 

 22nd, at Smalls Light (Pembroke) on September the 21st/22nd, at the 

 Skerries Light (Anglesey) on the 24th/25th, and on Fair Isle on thirteen 

 dates between September the 28th and October the 16th. 



THE WHINCHAT {Fratincola rubetra). 



Between July the 28th and August the 3rd Whinchats were reported 

 as leaving their breeding-quarters in Northumberland and moving into 

 the river valleys, and the species was last seen in N. Staffordshire on the 

 31st of July. Others were observed on migration in East Fife on the 

 18th and at Fair Isle on the 2oih of August ; they were passing through 

 E. Kent in moderate numbers during the latter half of the month, while 

 a great influx noted in Thanet on the 27th had passed on by the 30th. 

 During September the last Whinchat was seen in Cumberland on the 

 2nd and in N. Cheshire on the 5th ; the local birds left S. Staffordshire 

 between the 5th and 12th, though migrants continued to pass through 

 up to the 19th ; the Shropshire birds left about the 1 1th, and the last ones 

 were seen in E. Ross-shire on the 17th and in mid- Yorkshire and North- 

 amptonshire on the 19th. On the east coast one was seen on the Isle of 

 May (Fife) on the 14th ; from the 10th to the 18th small parties of 

 Wnmchats were passing down the Yorkshire coast, where a larger 

 number passed south on the 22nd, being followed by stragglers daily 

 imtil tho 29th. On the Norfolk coast stragglers were reported with 

 other migrants on the 1st, 8th, 11th, 13th, 16th, i7th and 23rd, all passing 



