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the northern midlands and the northern counties, as well as 

 in Scotland : the usual number was not recorded in Shrop- 

 shire and Derbyshire until the 6th, or from Cheshire and 

 Renfrew until the 13th. Others seem to have been passage- 

 migrants on their way to more northern localities, as was 

 indicated by the records from the Pentland Skerries between 

 the 8th and 17th. 



Whitethroats were building in Surrey on the 21st of April, 

 in Devonshire on the 24th, and in Yorkshire on the 29th, 

 on which date finished nests were found in Kent and Shrop- 

 shire. A nest with two eggs was reported in Somerset on 

 the 2nd of May, one with a single egg in Westmoreland 

 on the 6th of May, and others with four eggs in Warwick 

 on the 15th and in Glamorgan and Grloucester on the 16th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 

 March 



April 



1 27th. 



Devon. 



29th. 



Kent. 



3rd. 



Surrey. 



5th. 



Kent, Cheshire. 



Gth. 



Gloucester, Yorkshire. 



7th. 



Cornwall (passing) . 



10th. 



Dorset. 



11th. 



Dorset (increase). Devon (slight in- 





crease) . 



12th. 



Cornwall (passing). Sussex, Suffolk. 



13th. 



Somerset, Wilts. 



14th. 



Leicester. 



15th. 



Derby. 



16th. 



Berks. 



17th. 



Essex, Northampton, Merioneth^ Isle of 





Man. 



18th. 



Shropshire. 



19th. 



Somerset (increase). Hants, Herts, Notts. 



19th/20th. 



Cornwall light. 



20th. 



Somerset and Surrey (increase). Nor- 





thampton (great increase). Wilts (slight 





increase). Bedford, Worcester, Lincoln. 



