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arrive till nearly the end of the month, though no definite 

 movements could be traced. With such large numbers 

 of birds entering the country in rapid succession, it was 

 impossible to follow the course of the individual ' waves ' 

 of migration through the kingdom. 



Willow- Warblers were reported as nesting in Cumberland, 

 Nottingham and Kent on the 4th of May, in Devon on the 

 7th, in Northumberland on the 9th, and in Radnor, Shrop- 

 shire and Cheshire on the 10th. Nests with eggs were found 

 in Kent and Shropshire on the 14th, in Cambridge on the 1 7th, 

 in Lancashire on the 18th, in Hertfordshire on the 19th, and 

 in Suffolk, Glamorgan and Westmoreland on the 23rd. 



Chkonological Summary of the Records. 



March 18. Gloucester. 



„ 20. Leicester. 



„ 29. Somerset (few). Kent. 



„ 30. Hants. 



„ 31. Gloucester, Bedford. 

 April 1. Devon. 



,, 2. Kent lights. 



„ 3, Berkshire, Shropshire. 



„ 4. Carmarthen. 



„ 6. Devon, Wilts, Cambridge. 



„ 8. Radnor, Shropshire. 



„ 9. Devon (slight increase). Carmarthen (few). 

 Renfrew. 

 10. Hants lights. Somerset (increase). Dorset, 

 Gloucester. 



,, 11. Hants lights. Hants, Sussex, Surrey, North- 

 ampton, Leicester. 



„ 12. Lancashire, Yorkshire. 



„ 13. Kent (many). Renfrew (slight increase). 

 Somerset (decrease). Essex, Norfolk, Den- 

 bigh, Merioneth. 



„ ,14. Kent (decrease). Herts. 



„ 15. Bedford. 



