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THE REED-WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). 



Like tlie Grasshopper- Warbler, the present species was 

 peUloni recorded unless a special visit was paid to its nesting- 

 Innnts. Conseqiicntly, owing to the scantiness and donbtl'ul 

 nature oE many of the records (so many of them being 

 based on single observations) its points of entry and subse- 

 f|ueni movements were very difficult to define. On the whole 

 it seems ])robable that it entered the country mainly on the 

 eastern half of the south coast. 



The first arrivals reported were in Hampshire aiul Surrey 

 on the 19th of April, and on the following day a few were 

 noted in Suffolk. An influx of migrants must have taken 

 place about the 3rd week in April, as a few were observed 

 ill C'heshire on the 25th, and increased numbers were 

 reported in the same county on the 2()th and 27th. The 

 larger number of our summer-residents, however, seem to 

 have arrived during the first fortnight in May, an increase 

 being recorded in Kent on the 1st, in Somerset on the 5th, 

 ;ind in Essex on the 8th and 13th, while a single bird was 

 killed at St. (Jatherine's light (Hampshire) on the night of 

 the 6th/7th. 



Reed-Warblers were nesting in Hampshire on the 20th of 

 May and in Westmoreland on the 30th. Nests with eggs 

 were found in Essex on the 21st, in Oxford on the 26th, and 

 in Somerset on the 29th. 



Chronological Summary or the Records, 



April 19th. Hants, Surrey. 

 20th Suffolk. 



