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THE WHIMBREL {Numenius ^yhceopus). 



Like the Curlew, the Whimbrel was reported as passing from several 

 inland counties during the latter half of July, and the first migrants 

 arrived on the E. Sussex coast on the 15th. During the whole of August 

 and the first half of September similar records were received, but they 

 were from Avidely separated localities and related almost entirely to very 

 small numbers, so that no definite movements could be traced. There 

 were, however, arrivals of larger numbers in E. Kent on the 11th of 

 August and on the Dorset coast on the 26th. Three were seen at Spurn 

 Head Light (Yorkshire) at midnight of the 18th/19th of August, and two 

 or three were seen daily on the Isle of May (Fife) from the 14th to the 

 2oth of September. The latest record was of two birds seen on the 

 Dorset coast on the 1st of October. 



THE BLACK TEEN {Hxjdrochelidon nigra). 



Aug. 3rd. N. Anglesey coast, one seen. 

 Sept. 8th. Hants coast, one seen. 



„ lGth/17th. Hanois Lt. (Guernsey), one killed at 11 p.m. 



THE SANDWICH TERN {Sterna cantiaca). 



The majority of the parent birds with their young left the Cumberland 

 breeding-area between the 10th and the 22nd of July, the last pair being 

 observed on the 30th. The last members of the colony on the Fame 

 IsJands (Northumberland) left on the 29th of August and were recorded 

 on the same day passing down the Durham coast. Large numbers were 

 seen ofTthe Fifeshire coast on the 24th and 31st of August. 



THE COMxMON TERN {Sterna fluviatilis). 



On the 20th of July two were seen inland in Northamptonshire, and 

 during August and September several similar records of passing migrants 

 were received from Shropshire, while one was seen as late as the 10th of 

 October in N.E. Surrey and on the 18th in Leicestershire. The breeding- 

 birds in S.E. Suffolk began to depart on the 10th of August and had nearly 

 all gone by the 29th. The main southward passage along the Lancashire 

 coast seems to have taken place during the first fortnight in August, but 

 another flight of migrants began about the 5th of September, and between 

 the 11th and 18th many were caught there in the flight-nets. The last 

 birds left the Aberdeenshire coast on the 8th of September. 



