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Lewis, tbe Bell Rock and the Bass Rock lights in July. They were 

 congregating in Suffolk on the 17th of that month and numbers left 

 Staffordshire during the last week. 



A single bird was killed at Sule Skerry Light (Orkney) on the 

 5th of August. Large numbers were passing south in Suffolk on the 6th 

 and 7th, a good many on the 9th, and a few on the 28th and 29th. la 

 Oxford a large gathering took place on the 9th, but all had left by 

 the 11th. Two small flocks were reported on passage in Radnor 

 on the 9th amd lOfch, By the middle of the month the greater number 

 of Swifts had apparently left the country. The records for September 

 were few and referred to stragglers or very small parties. The only 

 reports for October came from Devonshire, where one was seen on the 

 Srd, and about a dozen on the 16th, 



Swifts were last seen in the Isle of Man, Radnor and Hampshire 

 on the loth of August, in Oxford on the 11th, in Dorset on the 12th, 

 in Cumberland, Carnarvon, Somerset and Gloucester on the 14th, in 

 Kent on the 17th, in Cheshire on the 18th, in Staffordshire on the 19th, 

 in Shropshire on the 20th, in Lancashire and Wiltshire on the 21st, 

 in Suffolk on the 22nd and in Yorkshire on the 27th. 



THE NIGHTJAR {Caprimulgus europteus). 



Pentland Skerries (Orkney), passing. 



Tunbridge Wells (Kent), decrease ; Famham (Surrey), 

 last seen, 



Holkham (Norfolk), three arrived very tired. 



Bloxworth (Dorset), two seen. 



Limpsfield (Surrey), one seen. 



Oswestry (Shropshire), last seen. 



Mochum (Solway), passing. 



Langstone Harbour (Hants), one seen. 

 „ 16th to 20th. Rhyl (Denbigh), one seen. 

 „ 23rd. Ciliau Aeron (Cardigan), one caught. 

 Nov. lOthto 13th. Dartmouth (Devon), one seen, 



THE WRYNECK {hjnx torfjuilla). 



Aug. 1st to 31st. Limpsfield (Surrey), seen daily; Tunbridge Wells 

 (Kent), one daily. 



„ 17tli. Suffolk coast, one passing. 



„ 22nd. Barcombe (Sussex), last seen, 



„ 25th, Dowles (Shropshire), last seen. 



„ 28th. Fair Isle (Shetland), one arrived. 



„ 30th. Near Peebles, one under telegraph wires. 



„ 31st. Tunbridge Wells, last seen. 



July 



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Aug. 



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19th. 



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20th. 



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1st. 



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