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THE MEADOW-PIPIT {Anthus pratensis). 



During the last days of August and the early days of September there 

 was evidence of some migratory movement at Lundy Island in the Bristol 

 Channel, and on the 29th flocks were noted as having arrived in Norfolk. 



A movement was also noticed on September the 8th on the Isle of 

 Man. Many were recorded on the Yorkshire coast on September the 

 10th, some Avere observed going south in Somerset on November the 8th, 

 and numbers had arrived in Yorkshire on November the 15th. From 

 these few notes it was impossible to trace any migration routes. 



On September the 27th and 28th there was an immigration on the 

 east coast, birds being observed from the Leman and Ower and Smith's 

 Knoll Lt.-vs. (Norfolk) flying towards the land. 



On October the 9th/10th a few birds were recorded from the Inner 

 Dowsing Lt.-v. (Lincolnshire), and on the 9th and 10th many flocks 

 from the Gull Lt.-v. (Kent), going north-west ; on the latter day they 

 were also seen at the Galloper Lt.-v. (Kent;. 



On October the 4th/5th and November the 4th/5th a few were noted at 

 St. Catherine's Lt. (Isle of Wight). 



THE ROCK-PIPIT (Anthus obscurus). 



On October the 9th a bird was taken at the Galloper Lt.-v. (Kent) and 

 on the 17th the first immigrants were noted in North Lincolnshire. 

 On November the 5th/6th several were noted and a few killed at the 

 Shambles Lt.-v. (Dorset) and at the Hanois Lt. (Channel Islands). 



THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE (Lanius collurio). 

 One killed at Haisboro' Lt. (Norfolk) on September the lst/2nd. 



THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER (Muscicapa grisola). 



The notes on this species show that while in some districts the local 

 birds had not left at the end of August, in other districts, even in the 

 same county, the breeding birds and their young had departed during 

 the first fortnight. During the first half of September their numbers 

 seem to have gradually diminished ; in the first week migrants were 

 observed passing through several counties, and in most localities nearly 

 all had left by the middle of the month. In some favoured spots a few 

 lingered on till the end of the month and even into October. 



A few were noted on September the 2nd/3rd, 4th/5th, 6th/7th at the 

 Orford Lt. (Suffolk), and on September the 3rd/4th at St. Catherine's 

 Lt. (Isle of Wight), while on the 17th/18th many were killed. 



