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THE GARDEN-WARBLEE. 



Sylma Jiortensis, Beclist. 



This bird appears to have arrived along the whole o£ the 

 south coast, but chiefly on the eastern half. 



Single birds were recorded in Sussex, Cornwall and Kent 

 on the 12th, 13th and 14th o£ April, but little in the way 

 o£ immigration appears to have taken place up to the 

 end of the month. Small arrivals apparently took place 

 about the 16th, 18th and 21st. and a rather larger one be- 

 tween the 25th and 27th ; up to the 3rd o£ May, though 

 there were large numbers in one or two places, the species 

 was thinly distributed over the greater part of ^ England 

 and Wales. Stragglers reached Yorkshire on the 23rd, 

 Westmoreland on the 27th of April, Cumberland on the 

 2nd and Northumberland on the 6th of May. The first 

 considerable arrival of Garden-Warblers took place between 

 the 4th and 8th of May, several being observed at Hanoi s 

 light (Guernsey) and St. Catherine's light (Hants) on the 

 night of the 6th/7th, and many at St. Catherine's on the 

 7th/8th. As the result of these immigrations an increase 

 in the number of birds throughout the country became 

 apparent, particularly in the northern counties, Scotland 

 beino- reached on the 12th and 14th. In the meantime the 

 earlier arrivals had already commenced to nest, and were 

 reported in Surrey and Somerset on the 5th and in Kent 

 and Radnor on the 9th and 10th. Nests with eggs were 

 found in Northamptonshire on the 5th, in Yorkshire on the 

 8th, and in Oxfordshire and Lancashire on the 18th and 19th. 



From the 10th to the loth of May a further immigration 

 took place on the eastern half of the south coast, while 



