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THE GARDEN-WARBLER. 



Sylvia hortensis Bechst. 



This species arrived along the whole of the south coast of 

 England, but chiefly eastwards of Hampshire. 



Stragglers were recorded from Devonshire, Sussex, Dorset 

 and Denbigh, between the 5th and the 22nd of April. On 

 the 24th seventeen were reported from Cornwall, but this was 

 the only record of the species from that county. 



It was not until the first week of May that any large 

 immigration took place. That movement began on the 3rd, 

 when it was recorded at the Mucking light, Essex, and 

 al Sr. Catherine's light, Isle of Wight. On the 4th a 

 -ingle bird was killed at the Varne light, Kent, and on the 

 5th and 6th large numbers were again recorded from 

 St. ( latherine's. 



The main body of the birds seems to have arrived with this 

 immigration and to have spread rapidly northwards, as was 

 shown by the arrival of G-arden- Warblers in Lancashire and 

 Lincolnshire on the 5th and 6th of May, and an increase in 

 the number in Yorkshire on the 7th, while the earliest arrival 

 in Westmoreland was recorded on the same date. 



Further arrivals took place at St. Catherine's on the 8th 

 and 9th. On the latter date several were recorded from 

 ( Jardigan, and many from Northampton. On the 10th 

 i here was an increase in numbers in Surrey, Berkshire and 

 Yorkshire, and a few were reported from Renfrew. On 

 the l'ul lowing day a further increase of Garden- Warblers 

 was noted in the counties of Kent, Cambridge, Radnor, 

 Shropshire and Cheshire. In the case of Kent the increase 



