I20 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



it is not unusual to see several united family 

 parties in the meadows, numbering from a dozen 

 to a score of individuals. 



Although generally distributed during the 

 summer months throughout the greater part of 

 England and Scotland, it is said to be some- 

 what rare in Ireland, where its presence has 

 been detected by comparatively few observers. 

 So much more attention, however, is paid to 

 ornithology now-a-days, that this species, like 

 many others, may be reported to be more 

 common than formerly because more observed. 

 In the central and southern portions of Europe 

 it is not uncommon, and crossing the Mediter- 

 ranean, as winter approaches, it passes down 

 both the east and west coasts of Africa as far 

 as Natal on the one side and Angola on the 

 other. A considerable number, however, pass 

 the winter in Africa, a good many degrees 

 further north. 



