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A nest ready for eggs was found in Cambiidgeshire on the 

 9th of May, and one with a full clutch on the 16th ; one 

 was observed on the 17th in Berkshire, an unfinished one on 

 the 22nd in Hampshire, and one with young birds was found 

 in Suffolk on the 26th. 



This species appears to have arrived very late and to have 

 commenced nesting almost immediately. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 20. Surrey. 

 „ 21. Wilts. 

 „ 22. Essex, Hants. 

 „ 23. Suffolk. 

 ,, 24. Sussex. 

 „ 26. Suffolk (many). Essex (slight increase). Kent, 



Herts, Northampton. 

 „ 27. Northampton (slight increase). Norfolk. 



28. Hants lights. 

 „ 29. Hants lights. Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk 



(slight increase). Somerset, Leicester. 

 „ 30. Dorset, Glamorgan, Middlesex. 

 May 1. Suffolk and Essex (increase). Kent (further 

 slight increase). Sussex and Surrey (slight 

 increase). Bedford (numbers). Dorset, 

 Gloucester, Hereford, Shropshire, Berks, 

 Cambridge. 

 2. Kent (further increase). Berks and Herts 

 (increase). Hants, Wilts and Middlesex 

 (slight increase). Sussex (further slight 

 increase). Norfolk (decrease). Devon, Ox- 

 ford, Leicester, Cheshire. 

 ,, 3. Berks and Cambridge (increase). Northampton 



(further slight increase). 

 „ 1. Essex (decrease). 

 „ 5. Shropshire. 



„ 9. Hants (slight increase). Berks (increase). 

 Cambridge (nest ready for eggs). Leicester. 



