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Nov. 5th/6tli. Bardsey Lt. (Carnarvon), several between 10 p.m. and 



5 A.M. 



„ 18th/14th. Bardsey Lt., numbers from 1 to 4 a.m., apparently 



flying- S. 

 ,, 29tli. Dorset, first seen. 

 Dec. 12th/13tli. Bardsey Lt., a few from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., apparently 

 flying S. 

 „ 16tli/17tli. St. Catherine's Lt. (Isle of Wight), one killed at 

 4.30 A.M. 



THE DUNLIN {Trincja alpina). 



Immature Dunlins began to arrive on the south coast in July, and 

 quite a number of records of passing birds were received from inland 

 localities during the latter half of that month and during August. The 

 first migrants (a large flock) arrived on the Hampshire coast on the 2nd 

 of July and on the coast of E. Sussex on the 15th ; in the former locality 

 small flocks were seen daily after the 2nd, a further arrival took place in 

 Sussex on the 18th and these had mostly passed on by the 24th. The 

 inland records include S.W. Surrey on the 15th and 2oth, N. Warwick- 

 shire from the 22nd to the 24th, N. Northamptonshire on the 23rd,27t]i, 

 29th, the 10th and 23rd of August, Hertfordshire on the 25th of July, 

 the 15th and 29th of August, the 12th and 19th of September, and 

 W. Kent on the 18th of August. 



A large number of Dunlins arrived on the Lincolnshire coast on the 

 3rd of August and on the S.E. coast of Sufiblk on the 26th, while in the 

 west a large flock arrived in the Isle of Man during the third week of 

 . that month and a few were caught in the flight-nets on the Lancashire 

 coast between the 5th and 18tli of September. After September the only 

 records received were a few from the lights. Two birds struck Spurn 

 Head Light (Yorkshire) at 1 a.m. on the 3rd/4th of October, and a few 

 were seen at that hght on the nights of the lOth/llth and 14th/15th of 

 December, while numbers apparently flying south were recorded at 

 Bardsey Light (Carnarvon) between 1 and 4 a.m. on the 13th/14th of 

 November. 



THE LITTLE STINT {Tri7iga minuta). 



Single birds were seen at Tring, Herts, on the 29th of August, and at 

 Aberlady, Haddington, on the 4th of September, at Cley, Norfolk, on the 

 17th, and on Fair Isle, Shetland, on the 80th. 



THE CURLEW-SANDPIPER {Tringa suharquata). 



Three were seen on Sandwich Flats (E. Kent) on the 21st of August, 

 two at Edenmouth (Fife) on the 31st, and single birds at Tring (Herts) 

 on the 29th of August and the 12th of September, and at Cley (Norfolk) 



