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THE WRYNECK. 



lynx torguilla L. 



Apparently this bird arrived on the southern coast from 

 Hampshire eastwards. 



The earliest arrivals were three individuals recorded in 

 Surrey on the 6th of April, and until the 15th, when one 

 was recorded in Shropshire, the Wryneck was confined to the 

 south-eastern counties. It was not until the 27th that it 

 arrived in numbers. The main body seems to have come 

 between the 27th of April and the 2nd of May, and a subse- 

 quent immigration took place between the 6th and 9th of May- 

 After that date the bird seems to have become established in 

 its summer-quarters. 



The only records from the south-west were a single bird 

 observed in Devon on the 11th of May and a few seen in 

 Cornwall on the 17th. These last were evidently on passage, 

 as there was no note of the occurrence of the Wryneck in 

 Cornwall, either before or after that date. The evidence 

 does not show whether they had arrived from the south or 

 had entered the county from the east. 



A nest was found in Hertfordshire on the 9th of May, one 

 with five eggs in Surrey on the 24th, and one with two 

 eo-o-s in Sussex on the 26th. 



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Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 6. Surrey. 

 ,, 7. Berks. 



< s . Hants. 



9. Essex, Suffolk. 



