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small numbers only and were quite unimportant, but those 

 from the English and Welsh Grounds light-vessel were 

 much larger, and showed that a considerable northward 

 passage took place across the Bristol Channel. Omitting 

 those records referring to smaller numbers, Swallows were 

 passing that station northwards in small bodies all day on 

 the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 10th and 11th of May. Swallows 

 were nesting in Warwick on the 21st of April, in Oxford 

 and Middlesex on the 25th, in Kent, Surrey, Suffolk and 

 Northumberland on the 6th of May, and in Cambridge on 

 the 12th. Eggs were reported from Cumberland on the 

 7th of May and from Lancashire on the 18th. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



Feb. 29th to March 10th. Cornwall (one seen daily). 

 March 2nd. Cardigan. 

 „ 21st. Surrey. 



„ 24th to 31st. Cornwall (one seen daily). 

 „ 25th. Somerset. 



„ 26th. Dorset. 

 „ 27th. Devon (passing). Hants. 



29th. Devon. 

 „ 30th. Wilts, Herts. 

 „ 31st. Kent, Essex. 



April 1st. Hants, Kent, Somerset, Bedford, Car- 



narvon. 

 ,^ 2nd. Cornwall, Yorkshire. 



„ 3rd. Devon (slight increase). Sussex, Stafford- 



shire, Norfolk. 

 „ 4th. Leicester. 



„ 5th. Scilly Isles, Brecknock, Hereford, Shrop- 



shire, W^arwick, Derby, Isle of Man. 

 „ 6th. Cornwall, Surrey, Glamorgan. 



„ 7th. Dorset, Wilts, Carmarthen, Lincoln, North- 



umberland. 

 „ 8th. Berks, Suffolk, Northampton, 



