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THE WOOD-WARBLER. 



Pliylloscopus slhilatrix (Bechst.). 



No very definite evidence was furnished by the reports sent 

 in as to the points of entry of this species on our southern 

 coast, but it seems to have arrived mainly on the eastern 

 half. The earliest record was from Cheshire on the 16th of 

 April, and from that date to the end of the month the birds 

 appear to have straggled into the country either singly or 

 in very small numbers. A slight immigratory movement 

 probably took place between the 18th and 23rdj when a few 

 were noted in Devonshire and Dorsetshire, and several in 

 Hampshire, the birds in the latter county passing on at once. 

 It also seems probable that there was a second small immi- 

 gration at the end of the month. The May records were 

 likewise very scanty, and as no Wood-Warblers were 

 observed at any of the lights it can only be said that a 

 slightly more marked influx seems to have taken place 

 between the 4th and 12th. Wood- Warblers were nesting in 

 Somerset and Surrey on the 2nd of May, in Devonshire on 

 the 11th, and in Northumberland on the 16th, while a nest 

 with eggs was found in Radnor on the 10th and one with 

 young in Berkshire on the 26th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 16th. Cheshire. 

 „ 18th. Dorset. 



,, 19th. Kent, Berks, Staffordshire, Denbigh. 

 „ 20th. Devon, Sussex, Glamorgan, Brecknock, 

 Radnor. Leicester, Northumberland. 



