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THE WHITETHROAT. 



Sylvia cinerea Bechst. 



This bird seems to have arrived along the whole of the south 

 coast, but chiefly in Kent, Hampshire and Dorset. 



With two exceptions, all the lighthouse-records on the 

 south coast were from the Isle of Wight. 



The earliest records came from Devonshire on the 8th of 

 April, and between the 10th and the 27th Whitethroats were 

 recorded as stragglers in all the southern counties (except in 

 Cornwall and Kent), as well as in Nottingham, Shropshire, 

 Leicester and Northampton. 



The immigration continued without intermission until the 

 12th of May, the records showing a steady increase through- 

 out the country during that period. On the 25th a few were 

 observed in the north-east of Yorkshire. 



The main immigration began on the 28th of April, and 

 was first noted at St. Catherine's light, Isle of Wight. 



On the nights of the 23rd and 24th of May there was 

 evidently another immigration of female Whitethroats, which 

 was noted at the Bardsey (Carnarvon) and St. Catherine's 

 lights, but it was not large enough to affect the numbers in 

 the country generally. 



Pairs of Whitethroats were building in Cheshire on the 

 3rd of May, in Cornwall on the 10th, and in Radnorshire on 

 the 11th. Nests with eggs were found in Sussex on the 

 14th, in Westmoreland on the 16th, in Berkshire and 

 ( lambridgeshire on the 17th, in Cheshire on the 23rd, and 

 in Yorkshire on the 24th. 



