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migrants were also recorded at the Channel Islands on the 

 la.st- named date. The majority o£ the birds partaking in 

 this movement seem to have been passage-migrants either on 

 their way to breeding-places in Scotland or passing by the 

 east coast route to more northern summer-quarters. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 12th. Sussex. 



13th. Cornwall. 

 14th. Kent. 

 15th. Bedford. 

 16th. Devon, Somerset. 



18th. Somerset (increase). Dorset, Wilts, Shrop- 

 shire. 

 19th. Herts. 

 20th. Gloucester. 

 21st. Hants, Northampton, Suffolk, 



22nd. Surrey, Derby. 

 23rd. Yorkshire. 

 25th. Isle of Wight, Rutland. 

 26th. Monmouth. 

 27th. Surrey (increase). Middlesex, Leicester, 



Westmoreland. 

 28th. Rutland (slight increase). Somerset (nest). 



Glamorgan, Essex, Cambridge. 

 29th. Northampton (increase). Radnor, Che- 

 shire. 

 30th. Radnor (increase). Berks. 

 May 1st. Oxford, Merioneth, Staffordshire. 



2nd. Lancashire, Cumberland. 

 3rd. Gloucester (usual numbers). 

 4th. Essex and Radnor (increase). 

 5th. Surrey and Shropshire (increase). Surrey 

 (nesting). Northampton and Somer- 

 set (nests with eggs). 

 6th. Shropshire and Staffordshire (increase). 

 Northumberland. 



