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tlirouu-li tlie western countie?, more particularly between the 10th and 

 the 14th. Further south, similar records were received from Wiltshire 

 and S. Devonshire, large numbers apparently passing through on the Gth 

 and between the 9th and the 11th, and smaller numbers up to the T6th. 

 According to the light returns from Dorset and the Isle of Wight, it 

 would seem that the largest flocks of emigrants occurred on the nights 

 of the 15th and 17th, while smaller numbers were leaving on those of 

 the 12th, 16th, 20th and 21st. 



A few birds occurred also at Bardsey Light (Carnarvon) on the night of 

 the 2'3rd, while the last birds on the south coast were seen in Devonshire, 

 Sussex and E. Kent on the 26th. 



THE PIED FLYCATCHER (Mtiscicapa atncapilla). 



Hesident birds were still present at their breeding-liaunts in west 

 Eadnorshire on August the 1st. 



The arrival of migrants on tlie east coast commenced with single birds 

 seen at Fair Isle Light (Shetland), in S.E. Suffolk and in E. Kent on 

 September the 10th. The following day two arrived on the .south coast 

 of Yorkshire and numbers on the north coast of Norfolk. There was a 

 further and considerable arrival on the Yorkshire coast on the 12th, 

 when the Norfolk birds had already passed on ; the greater part of the 

 Yorkshire birds disappeared on the following day, when four or five 

 were seen in Thanet (E. Kent). On the 14th the first arrival (a single 

 bird) was noted in the Tsle of May (Fife), on the 16th small numbei-s 

 arrived on the N.E. coast of Lincolnshire and in N. Norfolk, these 

 being succeeded by others on the following day at the Isle of May and on 

 the S. Yorkshire coast. The whole of these passed on and, with the 

 exception of a single bird on the Isle of May on the 18th, no fresh im- 

 migrants were seen until the 22nd. On that day a few more arrived in 

 S. Yorkshire, and these were followed next day by larger numbers, when 

 several more arrived in N. Norfolk. At 4 a.m. on the 24th a single bird 

 was taken at Winterton Light (Norfolk) and one was seen on the 

 Isle of May, where a few others arrived on the 2oth ; stragglers were 

 noticed passing the Yorkshire coast up to the 27th. 



Corresponding with the passage of migrants in E. Kent on the IStli of 

 September, the first emigration from the south coast was noticed at 

 St. Catherine's Light (Isle of Wight) on the night of the ]2th/13th ; small . 

 numbers were again noted at that light on the night of the i5th/16th, 

 when three birds were taken at Hanois Light (Guernsey). 



The only record from the west coast included a few birds seen at the 

 Smalls Light (Pembroke) on the night of the 25th/26th of September. 



