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6th.- A Hawfinch in nest dress was picked up dead at 

 Skirsgill, near Penrith (H. Gandy). 



8th. — A Spotted Flycatcher sitting on eggs at this date at 

 Ivegill, near Carlisle. These were subsequently reared, a late 

 brood (Eev. C. T. Phillips). 



12th. — A Willow-Warbler singing to-day near Windermere 

 (W. E. B. Dunlop). 



13th. — A young Buzzard left the eyrie to-day ; very late 

 (W. E. B. Dunlop). 



14th. — A male Garganey Duck in eclipse shot on Solway 

 (T. Peal). 



18th. — Slowworm caught at Aspatria (H. Thompson). 



27th.— Little Stint seen at Silloth (W. Nichol). A Barn- 

 Owl seen in Carlisle (T. L. Johnston). 



30th. — Black-tailed Godwit and a Greenshank near Silloth 

 (W. Nichol). 



September 2nd. — A Barn-Owl's nest with two young seen 

 to-day, Carlisle (T. L. Johnston). 



7th. — About twelve hundred Bar-tailed Godwits seen on 

 Solway (W. Nichol). 



11th. — Flock of about forty Bean Geese on Solway (J. Back- 

 house). 



12th. — Whitethroat last seen near Carlisle (L. E. Hope). 



15th. — A Spotted Redshank seen near Silloth (W. Nichol). 



21st. — Sand-Martins last seen near Windermere (W. E. B. 

 Dunlop). 



24th. — Willow-Warbler and Whitethroat last seen near 

 Windermere (W. E. B. Dunlop). 



27th. — Song-Thrush uttering fragments of song near Winder- 

 mere (W. E. B. Dunlop). 



29th. — A few Barnacle Geese arrived on the Solway (T. L. 

 Johnston). 



30th. — Wild Geese passing over Troutbeck Valley, Winder- 

 mere (W. E. B. Dunlop). 



October 2nd. — A Little Stint seen to-day, also a Peregrine 

 Falcon, on the Solway (W. Nichol). 



4th. — Swallows last seen at Windermere to-day (W. E. B. 

 Dunlop). A Red-throated Diver, in summer dress, near Silloth 

 (W. Nichol). 



