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Feb. 20tb/21st. Spurn Head Lt., one. 



March 10th. Plymouth, flock of 30 flying S.W. 



„ 10th & 12th. Bowdon (Cheshire), 100-150 seen. 



,, 13th. Bowdon, decrease. 



,, 23rd. Bowdon, increase. 



„ 2oth. Bowdon and Northwich, passuig at night. 



" ^r,,i 'o"!! / i Bowdon and Northwich, numbers, 

 nyth&oist. ( 



,, 27th & 31st. Gower (Glamorgan), large numbers. 



,, 28th & 30th. Bowdon and Northwich, decrease. 



„ 29th. Haileybury (Herts), 100 seen. 



„ 31st. Littlehampton (Sussex) and Felstead, winter-residents 

 still present. 

 April 6th. Wirral (Cheshire), numbers passing. 



„ 7th to 14th. Pensford (Somerset), flock of 100, winter-residents. 



„ 8tli. Oswestry (Shropshire), 40 passing; Glendale (North- 



umberland), many passing. 



„ 14tli. Burrington (Somerset), flock of 40 seen ; Cheshire, 

 many large flocks passing ; Ingleton (Yorkshire), a 

 few pairs on the moors. 



„ 16ih. Nr. Moreton (Cheshire), a few flying N. 



,, 22nd. Ingleton, 30 passing; Hexham (Northumberland), 

 many flying W, 



THE LAPWING {Vanellus vulgaris). 



The only records from the east coast in January were of a flock at the 

 Laman and Ower Light-vessel (Norfolk) on the 12th/13th, and of large 

 numbers that arrived from the east at Plaisboro' (Norfolk) on the night 

 of the 15th. 



On the west coast numbers varying between twenty and sixty occurred 

 at Bardsey Light (Carnarvon) and Skerries Light (Anglesey) on four 

 nights between the 12th and 24th, and a single bird was taken at 

 Chicken Rock Light (Isle of Man) on the 20th/21st. On the south 

 coast an observer at Plymouth stated that there were practically no 

 Lapwings in that neighbourhood until the cold weather at the end of 

 January ; the first flock arrived on the 20th, followed on the 29th by a 

 large number which scattered over the fields, while many flocks were 

 passing to the S. and S.W., some of them disappearing out to sea. Those 

 that stayed behind remained until the break up of the frost on the 6th 

 of February and then disappeared. On the other hand, our observer at 

 Hayling Island stated that after a large emigration on the 1st of January 

 when a flock estimated at three thousand was seen passing high out to sea, 

 travelling S.S.W., there were practically no Lapwings in that area, and 



