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17tli, increases on 21st and 25th, decrease 28th; many passinj^ 

 N., Harwich (Essex), 23rd ; nine, Romney Marsh (Kent), 26th ; 

 nine, Beaulieu (Hants), 28th ; two, Lowestoft (Suffolk), 30th ; 

 twenty seen, Breydon, May 5th, increase 7tli, several 13th and 

 16th, all gone 23rd ; one arrived, Pentland Skerries (Orkney), 

 10th. 



The Black-tailed Godwit {Limosa belgica). One shot, Spurn 

 Head (Yorkshire), February 3rd ; one arrived, Breydon (Norfolk), 

 April 13th ; one seen, Romney Marsh (Kent), May 11th. 



The Black Tern {Hydrochelidon nigra). Eleven flying E., Dungeness 

 (Kent), April 23rd ; one, Romney Marsh (Kent), 26th, two on 

 27th ; one, Woburn (Bedford), May 3rd ; five, Tring (Herts), 4th 

 and 6th ; four, Bradfield (Essex), 8th ; three, Oxford, and one, 

 Breydon (Norfolk), 14th ; one, Bosham (Sussex), 23rd ; three, 

 Breydon, 28th ; one, Soulseat Loch (Wigtown), June 2nd. 



The White-winged Black Tern {Hydrochelidon hucopterct). Four 

 adults, Burnham-on-Crouch (Essex), May 28th. 



The Sandwich Tern {Sterna cantiaca). Two, near Northwich 

 (Cheshire), May 6th ; two, S.E. Suffolk coast, 13th. 



The Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura). Several, S.E. Suffolk coast, April 

 28th, many 30th ; one passing N., Whitby (Yorkshire), May 1st; 

 one, Burnham-on-Crouch (Essex), 4th, twenty on 5th ; two 

 passing, Pentland Skerries (Orkney), 8th, some arrived on the 

 12th and large numbers on the 14th ; one, Anglesey, 25th ; none 

 seen, Tarbert (Argyll), up to April 28th. 



The Little Gull {Larus minutus). One found dead near Haisboro' 

 Lt. (Norfolk), January 28th. 



The Black-headed Gull (Larus ridihundus). Four seen, Malvern 

 (Worcester), February 8th ; a decrease began at Plymouth 

 (Devon) early in March, very few remained in mid-March, nearly 

 all gone by the end of the month ; two passing, Tring (Herts), 

 April 17th; two flying W., Odsey (Herts), May 6th. 



The Common Gull {Larus canus). Increase, Yealm Estuary (Devon), 

 March 15th, further increases on 27th and April 2nd ; one seen, 

 near Northwich (Cheshire), May 6th and 9th. 



The Herring-Gull {Larus argentatas). Twenty or more arriving 

 on the shore from a great height. Rye Harbour (Sussex), April 

 10th, two only seen on 11th. 



The Great Black-backed Gull {Larus marinus). Decrease, Yealm 

 Estuary (Devon), March 15th, further decrease 27th, one or two 

 only April 2nd. 



The Lesser Black-backkd Gull {Ldrusfuscits). Out seen, Plymouth 

 (Devon), January 29th and February 1st ; first arrivals, Plymouth, 

 March 12th, increase 17th, decrease 18th; arrivals, Clyde area, 

 March 16th to 20lh ; two flying N.E., Tring (Herts), April 18th, 



