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tlie lotli, in Leicestersliire on tlie 18th, in Yorkshire on the 20th, and in 

 Oxford on tiie 26th ; while large nunihers were seen going south in 

 Sliropshire on the 13th and in Suflfblk on the 27th. Many reached the 

 Isle of May in company with Swallows on the 18th, and left again on 

 the following daj'. 



Up to the third week in October migration continued on a smaller 

 scale. On the 2nd large flocks were reported flying east in Somerset, but 

 none were seen after that date. On the south coast of Yorkshire small 

 numbers were observed flying south between the Gth and the 14th, large 

 numbers between the 16th and 18th, and a few between the lOth and 

 25th. As in the case of the Swallow, hundreds of young House-Martins 

 were killed by a sharp frost on the night of the 30th in Dorset. Martins 

 were last seen in Warwickshire on the 4th of October, in Cumberland on 

 the 5th, in Westmureland on the 6th, in Northumberland on the 13th, in 

 Wiltshire on the 14th, in Hampshire on the loth, in Leicestershire 

 on the 22nd, in Yorkshire and Sussex on the 25th, and in Kent and 

 Northumberland on the 27th. 



The only records in November included three or four birds seen in 

 Sussex on the Gth and 7th and one in Hampshire on the 8th. 



THE SAND-MARTIN {Cot He riparia). 



The only movements of this species noted during August were the 

 passage of large numbers through the Isle of Man on the 9th and a 

 gathering in Dorset on the 29th. During the flrst few days of September 

 the congregating movement became general in the Midlands, and the 

 arrival of migratory flocks was reported from Cheshire on the 4th and 

 8th, Staffordshire on the 5th and Shropshire, on the 10th and 11th, while 

 in the south-west fresh arrivals were noted in Dorset on the 1st, in 

 S. Devonshire on the 5th and in Wiltshire on the 9th. The local 

 Cheshire birds, with those that joined them on the 4th, departed on the 

 5th, the local Shropshire birds left on the 9th, the migrants on the 17th 

 and the Stiiffordshire birds on the 19th. A ie-w passed through the Isle 

 of Man on the 5th, and the last birds wore seen in Northumberland on 

 tlie same day. A large emigration from the coast of Dovon took place 

 on the 12th in a south-easterly direction, and by the 19th the main part 

 of the migration would appear to have been over, though stragglers were 

 reported in small numbeis from Cumberland and Wiltshire up to the 

 jniddle of October. The paucity of records from the east side of the 

 country seems to indicate that this species must have been almost absent 

 on migration. Only a single bird was seen on the south coast of York- 

 shire on the 21st of September, and the passage of quite inconsiderable 

 numbers through Kent was noted on various dates up to the 17th of 

 September, while a single belated flock was seen in S.E. Suffolk on the 

 1 nth of October. 



