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quickly on, wliile several were noted passing in mid-Suffolk ou the 21st, 

 and in E. Kent on the 11th, 12th and 26th. A few birds ou passage Avero 

 also recorded during the month in other south-eastern counties. Beyond 

 the emigration noted in E. Kent at the end of August there is very little 

 more that can be said on that point ; small flocks were noted as passing 

 on Hayling Island (Hants) on September the 8th and 9th, pointing to an 

 emigration about those dates, and many occurred at Anvil Point I^ight 

 (Dorset) on the night of the loth. On the 20th there seems to have 

 been a further departure from the Dorset coast, and the E. Kent records 

 already mentioned probably indicate departures of small numbers from 

 that area between the 1 1th and 26th. Another small flock was recorded 

 from Hayling Island ou October the 6th. 



THE STONECHAT {Pratincola mbicola). 



A few records of movements of this species were received, but there is 

 nothing to indicate that they were otherwise than of a local character. 

 A decrease was noted in the locally bred birds on the South Downs 

 (Sussex) on August the 23rd, an increase was reported in the New Forest 

 district of Hampshire on September 19th, and ou the 21st, 22nd, 25th 

 and 26ch single passing birds were recorded from non- breeding areas in 

 E, Kent. During October a few birds were noted passing south on the 

 south coast of Yorkshire ou the 1st and 7th, while two or three birds 

 which had just arrived were noted there ou the 14th and 19th. On the 

 19th of September a single bird appeared on the Isle of May (Fife). 



THE EEDSTART {Ruticilla phcenicurus). 



Redstarts began to leave their summer-haunts early in August, an 

 observer in Cardigan reporting the departure of the resident-birds from 

 his neighbourhood during the first week of the month. The observations 

 show that they were collecting and joining in with flocks of Willow- 

 Warblers in Cumberland on the 5th, and that the main body left that 

 coimty on the 21st. On the 25th a movement was noticed ou the coast 

 of Fife ; on the 28th there was a considerable decrease in Staffordshire, 

 and passing birds were noted at the Isle of May and in Sussex, and on 

 the night of the 27th/28tli several were seen at St. Catherine's Light 

 (Isle of Wight). 



On the 4th of September small parties were moving through Sussex, 

 and from the 11th to the 21st they were passing down the coasts of 

 South Yorkshire, Lincolushire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent in large 

 numbers. Many were reported at Anvil Point Light (Dorset) on the 

 15th/16th, and hundreds at St. Catherine's Light on the 16th/17th, on 

 which date a few were also noted at Hanois Light (Guernsey). On the 

 following night a few were again recorded at St. Catherine's Light, a 

 large number at Anvil Point Light, and a moderate number at the 



