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THE TURNSTONE {Strepsilas iuterpres). 



A. single bird arrived on the E. coast of Sussex on the 16th of July 

 and remained until the 24th. On the 1st of August Turnstones were 

 reported to be arriving in numbers on the Hampshire coast, where they 

 increased daily, reaching a maximum on the 11th ; after that date a rapid 

 diminution took place, the last one being seen on the 28th. On the 

 19th the first bird was noted on the S. coast of Devonshire and large 

 numbers arrived on the 28th. Two or three birds arrived on the S.E. 

 coast of Kent on the 22nd of August and others on the 24th, while three 

 passing birds were noticed on the N.E. coast of Yorkshire on the 6lh of 

 September. 



THE OYSTER-CATCHER {Hcematopus ostralegus). 



A single Oyster-catcher arrived on the S.E. coast of Kent on the 8tli 

 of August, on the 18th twenty-eight appeared and by the 24th their 

 numbers had risen to over eighty. On the 15th a single bird was tpken 

 at Smith's Knoll Light-vessel (Norfolk), and on the 27th a few passing 

 birds were noted on the N.E. coast of Y^orkshire, where others were 

 noted on the 1st and 21st of September, while on the N. coast of Norfolk 

 single migrants were seen on the 1st, 2nd and 13th. Between the 5th 

 and 18th of September a few birds were taken in the flight-nets on the 

 N.W. coast of Lancashire, but it was noted that by the latter date the 

 large flocks had not yet arrived. From thirty to forty passing birds 

 were noted in the Isle of Man on the 31st of October. 



THE WOODCOCK [Scolopax riisticula). 



The earliest immigrant Woodcocks on the east coast arrived in S.E. 

 Suffolk on the 2nd and 26th of September, but the movement does not 

 appear to have commenced in earnest until mid-October. On the 

 13th/14th of that month the first bird was taken at Coquet Island Light 

 (Northumberland) at 2 a.m., and four found on the island the next day 

 left for the south at 3 p.m. On the 18th one was recorded from 

 Dunrossness (Shetland), on ihe 19th/20th a single bird was killed at 

 Winterton Light (Norfolk) at 4.30 a.m., on the 26th the first arrivals 

 appeared on the S.E. coast of Yorkshire, and several more were seen at 

 Withernsea Light on the 27th/28th, when there was also a large an-ival 

 on the Norfolk coast. A further small number of immigrants arrived in 

 S.E. Yorkshire on the morning of the 29th, and on the following night 

 many appeared in N.E. Suffolk. Further small arrivals occurred on the 

 S.E. coast of Y'orkshire on the 31st and on the 1st, 5th and 14tli of 

 November, while six were seen at the Shipwash Light-vessel (Suffolk) 

 on the lst/2nd, one at Whitby Light (Yorkshire) on the 2nd, seven at 



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