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ALBERE Q FLAMMAM, i PRINTED BY TAYLCR AND FRANCIS, | RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. | PREFACE, Tue number of attendances at the Meetings of the British Ornithologists’ Club during the 21st Session, 1912-1913, was 401 (this included 328 Members and 73 Visitors), showing an average of nearly 45 per meeting, as against 52 in the previous Session. The falling off in numbers was no doubt due to the fact that no exhibition of Lantern- slides took place in March. It is with very deep regret that we have to record the death of our Chairman, Dr. P. L. Sclater, who had occupied that position since the commencement of the Club in October 1892. At the last meeting of the Session he was too ill to be present and receive the testimonial and piece of plate which were te have been presented to him in recog- nition of his long and valuable services. He will be sadly missed by the Members of the Club. Other well-known and much lamented members who passed away during the Session were the veteran zoologist Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, Mr. Henry J. Pearson, at one time a Vice-Chairman and until lately a regular attendant of the meetings, and Dr. Edward A. Wilson, whose loss is specially deplored. The interest attaching to the meetings of the Club has been well maintained during the Session, and many new and rare species of Birds have been exhibited for the first time. The most important collection shown was no doubt 9 a2 Iv that brought home by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston and Mr.C. B. Kloss from their successful expedition to Mount Carstensz in Dutch New Guinea. Mr. G. W. Bury succeeded in reaching the mountains in the interior of Yemen, S. Arabia, and, as was to be expected, his enterprise was rewarded by the discovery of a number of novelties inhabiting the higher altitudes of those barren ranges. Mr. J. D. La Touche, acting on behalf of the B.O.C., has continued his investigation of the migration of birds in Eastern China, and has forwarded another large collection of Summer-migrants from Chin-wang-tao, which should prove ~ of great interest. (Signed) W R. OGILVIE-GRANT, Editor. August 20th, 1913. Rn RULES OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB, (As amended, August 13th, 1913.) I. This Club was founded for the purpose of facilitating the social intercourse of Members of the British Ornithologists’ Union. Any Ordinary Member of that Union can become a Member of this Club on payment (to the Treasurer) of an entrance fee of One Pound and a subscription of Five Shillings for the current Session. Resignation of the Union involves resignation of the Club. II. Members who have not paid their subscriptions before the last Meeting of the Session, shall cease, ipso facto, to be Members of the Club, but may be reinstated on payment of arrears, and a new entrance fee. Ill. Ordinary Members of the British Ornithologists’ -Union may be introduced as Visitors at the Meetings of the Club, but every Member of the Club who introduces a Member of the B. O. U. as a Visitor (to the dinner or to the Meeting afterwards) shall pay One Shilling to the Treasurer, 0” each accasion. IV. No gentleman shall be allowed to attend the Meetings of the Club as a guest on more than three occasions during any single Session. VI V. The Club shall meet, as a rule, on the Second Wednesday in every Month, from October to June inclusive, at such hour and place as may be arranged by the Committee. At these Meetings papers upon ornithological subjects shall be read, specimens exhibited, and discussion invited. VI. An Abstract of the Proceedings of the B. O. C. shall be printed as soon as possible after each Meeting, under the title of the ‘Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club,’ and distributed gratis to every Member who has paid his subscription. Copies of this Bulletin shall be published and sold at One Shilling each. VII. The affairs of this Club shall be managed by a Committee, to consist of the Chairman, who shall be elected for five years, at the end of which period he shall not be eligible for re-election, the Editor of the ‘ Bulletin,’ the Secretary and Treasurer, and the Editor of ‘The Ibis,’ ex officio, with three other Members, one of whom shall be changed every year. The Committee shall have power to make and alter Bye-laws. COMMITTEE 1912-1913. P. L. Scuater, F.R.S., Chairman. W. RB. Oeitvin-Grant, Editor of the ‘ Bulletin’ H. F. Wiruersy, Secretary and Treasurer. W. L. Sctater, Editor of ‘ The Ibis? E. Hartert. C. B. Rickert. N. F. Trcenvrst. LIST OF MEMBERS. JUNE 1913S. Arrexanper, H. G.; King’s College, Cambridge. Artin, Oxtver Vernon; Bloxham, Banbury, Oxon. ArunpveL, Major W. B.; High Ackworth, Pontefract. Baur, P. H.; 50 Iverna Gardens, Kensington High Street, W. Baker, KE. C. Stuart; 6 Harold Road, Upper Norwood, 8.E. Baxer, Dr. J. C.; Ceely House, Aylesbury. Bannerman, Davin A.; The Orchard, King’s Langley, Herts. Barcray, Huew Gurney; Colney Hall, Norwich. Barrert-Hamitton, Major Grratp KE. H.; Kilmanock House, Arthurstown, Co. Waterford. Barrineton, Rrcparp Manuirre; Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Bickerton, W.; The Firs, Farraline Road, Watford. Bipwe1t, K.; 1 Trig Lane, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. Braauw, F. E., C.M.Z.S. ; Gooilust, s\Graveland, Noord-Holland. Bonnorr, Joun Lewis; Gadespring Lodge, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Boorman, S.; Heath Farm, Send, Woking, Surrey. Boora, H. B.; ‘ Ryhill,” Ben Rhydding. Borrer, C. D.; 6 Durham Place, Chelsea, 8.W. Braprorp, Sir J. Rosz, F.R.S.; 8 Manchester Square, W. Brices, T. H.; Rock House, Lynmouth, R.S.0., Devon. Bristrowe, B. A.; The Cottage, Stoke D’Abernon, Cobham, Surrey. Brocknotres, W. Frrzuersert; Claughton-on-Brock, Garstang, Lancashire. Bucxiey, C. M.; 4 Hans Crescent, 8.W. Bunyarp, P. F.; 57 Kidderminster Road, Croydon. Buxton, Antuony ; Knighton, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Campre., C. W.; Great Hollenden, Underriver, Sevenoaks. Carrot, Crement Josprrn; Rocklow, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Lreland. VIII Carter, Tuomas; Wensleydale, Broome Hill (Great Southern Railway), W. Australia. Cuaptin, Nuennt; The Lodge, Bourne End, Bucks. Carman, ABEL; Houxty, Wark-on-Tyne. Cuvuss, Cuartes; British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. Crarke, Capt. Gotann van Hott, D.S.0.; Brook House, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex. SLARKE, Col. SrepHenson Rospert; Borde Hill, Cuckfield, Sussex. Crarke, WitttaM Eaetr; Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Cotes, Ricuarp Epwarp; Ashley Arnewood, Lymington, Hants. Conierr, A.; 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, W.C. Cottier, CHartes; Bridge House, Culmstock, Devon. Crossman, AtAN F.; care of F. Sharman, 47 Goldington Road, Bedford. Curtis, Freprrics, F.R.C.8.; Alton House, Redhill, Surrey. Datereisn, Joun J.; Brankston Grange, Bogside Station, Alloa, N.B. Davinson, J.; 32 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. Davis, K. J. A.; Julian Hill, Harrow. Drs Wryton, W. E.; Southover Hall, Burwash, Sussex. Dossre, James B.; 12 South Inverleith Avenue, Edinburgh. Dorrie, WittiAM Henry, M.R.C.S. ; 2 Hunter Street, Chester. Dresser, Henry Eres; Riverview, Maidenhead. Drewitt, Dr. F. D.; 14 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, W. Durron, Rev. & Hon, Canon; Bibury, Fairford. Earir, Epwarp V.; Franks, Farningham, Kent. Exot, Epmunp A. 8., M.R.C.S.; Slade, Mounts, 8. Devon. Exrtson, Rey. Attan; Althorpe Rectory, Doncaster. Ex:wes, Henry Joun, F.R.S.; Colesborne Park, Cheltenham. Evans, Antour Humpie, M.A.; 9 Harvey Road, Cambridge. Ewen, Guy L’Esrraner; 1 Claremont Road, Windsor. Fansuawe, Captain R. D.; Adbury Holt, Newbury, Berks. Fryurson, Horace W.; Lancing College, Shoreham-on-Sea, Sussex. Frower, Capt. 8. 8.; Ghizeh Zoological Gardens, Cairo, Egypt. Forbes, Henry Occ, LL.D.; Redcliffe, Beaconsfield, Bucks. Fosrer, Nevin H.; Hillsborough, Co. Down, Ireland. Fowrrr, W. Warps, M.A.; Lincoln College, Oxford. Frouaws, F. W.; Stanley House, Park Road, Wallington, Surrey. GainsporoueH, The Karl of; Exton Park, Oakham. Garnett, CHartus; 9 Cleveland Gardens, Hyde Park, W. GurrarP, Joun; Worsley, Manchester. IX Gizson, Ernest; 25 Cadogan Place, 8.W. Gittman, A. R.; Heath Vale, Farnham, Surrey. Guiuenconner, The Lord ; 34 Queen Anne’s Gate, 8.W. Gopman, Frepmrick DuCans, D.C.L., F.R.S. (President B.O.U.) ; 45 Pont Street, S.W. Goopatt, J. M.; The Nest, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. Goopcurtp, H.; 17 Priory Gardens, Shepherd’s Hill, Highgate, N. GoopreLLow, Water; The Poplars, Kettering. Goutp, F. H. Carrurners; Matham Manor House, Hast Molesey. Grant, C. H. B.; Sports Club, St. James’s Square, 8. W. Grey, Sir Epwarp, Bart., M.P.; Falloden, Christon Bank, Nor- thumberland. GrirrivH, Arraur F.; 59 Montpelier Road, Brighton. Gurney, G. H.; Keswick Hall, Norwich. ‘Gurney, Joun Henry; Keswick Hall, Norwich. Haicu, Grorce Henry Caron; Grainsby Hall, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Hats, Rev. James R.; Boxley Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent. Hartneron, Major H. H.; c/o Messrs. Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Harrert, Ernst, Ph.D.; The Museum, Tring, Herts. Harvit- Brown, Joun A.; Dunipace House, Larbert, Stirlingshire, N.B. Hawker, R. M.; Bath Club, Dover Street, W. Heaptey, F. W.; Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. Hetimayr, C. E.; Zoologische Sammlung des Staats, Alte Akademie, Munchen, Germany. Herr, G. SrccomBe; 8 Wimpole Street, W. Hony, G. Baruurst, 8 Christ’s Lane, Cambridge. Horsrrerp, Herbert Knient; Crescent Hill, Filey, Yorkshire. Howarp, Roperr James; Shearbank, Blackburn, Lancashire. Ineram, Cottinewoop; Sussex Mansions, Westgate-on-Sea. Jackson, Sir Frepericx J., C.B., K.C.M.G.; Entebbe, Uganda, East Africa. Jonrs, Major H.; East Wickham House, Welling, Kent. Jones, Staff-Surgeon Kmnnuru H., k.N.; Manor House, St. Stephens, Canterbury. JourDAIN, Rev. F. C. R.; Clifton Vicarage, Ashburne, Derbyshire. Joy, Norman H.; Thurlestove, Bradfield, near Reading. Ketso, J. E. H., M.D.; Edgewood, Arrow Lakes, British Columbia. Kinnear, Norman b.; Bombay Natural History Society. x Kross, C. Boppy, Kuala Lampur, Federated Malay States, La Toucue, J. D.; Chinese Customs, Chinwangtao, N. China. Lariptaw, THomas Grepprs ; Bank of Scotland Branch, Duns, N.B. Laneron, Hersert ; St. Moritz, 61 Dyke Road, Brighton. LascetiEs, Hon. Geratp; King’s House, Lyndhurst, Hants. Le Sovitr, D.; Zoological Society, Melbourne, Australia. Loven, G. E.; 5 Thurloe Studios, Thurloe Square, 8. Kensington, S.W. Lone, Sypney H., M.D.; 37 St. Giles’ Street, Norwich. Lows, Dr. P. R.; The Hatch, Windsor. Lucas, The Lord; 32 Old Queen Street, S.W. Lyyes, Captain Husurt, R.N.; Garthmeilio, Corwen. McConnett, F. V.; Camfield, Hatfield. Macmiuuan, G. A.; 27 Queen’s Gate Gardens, 8.W. Macmuinuan, W. E. F.; 27 Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W. Macenerson, Artaur Horre; 21 Campden Hill Square, Ken- sington, W. Maerata, Lieut.-Colonel H. A. F.; 54th Sikhs, F.F., Kohat, India. Marsuatt, A. McLran; Great Chitcombe, Brede, Sussex. MarsuHatt, James McLran; Bleaton Hallet, Blairgowrie, N.B. Mason, Colonel E. 8.; 10 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln. Martuerws, G. M.; Langley Mount, Watford. MeapE-Watpo, Epmonp Gustavus Bioomriztp; Stonewall Park, Edenbridge, Kent. | Mituars, Jonn Guittz; Comptons Brow, Horsham. Mitts, Rey. H. Hotroyp; The Rectory, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Grampound Road, Cornwall. Monro, Sir Horace C., K.C.B.; Queen Anne’s Mansions, 8.W. Muny, P. W.; The Green, Laverstoke, Whitchurch, Hants. Mount, Henry; 10 Ashburn Place, South Kensington, S.W. Murray, Mackenzie; Woodside House, Coupar Angus, N.B. Mosrers, J. P. C.; Annesley Park, Nottingham. NesHam, Rospnrr; Utrecht House, Queen’s Road, Clapham Park, Save Nexson, T. H.; Seafield, Redcar, Yorks. Newman, T. H.; Newlands, Harrowdene Road, Wembley, Middlesex. Nicuots, J. B.; Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. Nicuorson, F.; The Knoll, Windermere. Nicott, Micnart J.; Ghizeh Zoological Gardens, Cairo, Egypt. Ocitvis, Frerevs Menrerru ; The Shrubbery, 72 Woodstock Road, Oxford. xT Oattvie-Grant, W. R. (Zditor) ; British Muscum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. Ox.pHam, Cuas.; Kelvin, Boxwell Road, Berkhamsted, Herts. Parxry, Tuomas; Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings. Parrerson, Wittiam H.; 25 Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W. Prarsr, TarEp; Mentmore, Ampthill Road, Bedford. Pearson, Coartes Epwarp; Hillcrest, Lowdham, Nottingham. Prarson, Henry J.; Bramcote, Beeston, Notts. Pryrosz, Francis G., M.D.; Athenzeum Club, Pall Mall, W. Prrsnovss, Captain 8.; B.I. Lines, Mandalay, Burmah. Pieort, Sir Thomas Diesy, K.C.B.; The Lodge, Lower Sheringham. Puayur, W. J. P.; The Quarr, Clydach, R.S.O., Glamorganshire. Poruam, Hueu Leysorne; Hunstrete House, Pensford, near Bristol. Pricz, A. E.; 4 Mincing Lane, E.C. Procror, Major F. W.; Downfield, Maidenhead. Pycrarr, W. P.; British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W. Rarciirr, F. R.; 29 Connaught Square, W. Rawson, Hersert Evetyn; Comyn Hill, Ilfracombe. Reap, Roperr H.; Camelot, South Parade, Bedford Park, W. Rep, Capt. Savitz G. (late R.E.); The Elms, Yalding, Maidstone. Renavt, W. H.; 29 Elsham Road, Kensington, W. Ricumonp, H. W., F.R.S.; King’s College, Cambridge. Rickert, C. B.; 27 Kendrick Road, Reading, Berks. Ripron, Colonel G. ; 89th Punjabis, Mandalay, Upper Burma. Riviere, B. B., F.R.C.S.; St. Giles’ Plain, Norwich. Rosrnson, H. C.; State Museum, Kuala Lumpur, F. M. States. Roruscaitp, Hon. L. Watrer, Ph.D., F.R.S.; The Museum, Tring, Herts. Roruscuitp, Hon. N. Cuarres; Arunde] House, Kensington Palace Gardens, W. Russevt, Conrap; 2 Audley Square, W. Sr. Quintin, W. H.; Scampston Hall, Rillington, Yorkshire. SapswortH, Arno~tp Durr; Royal Societies Club, St. James’s Street, S.W. Sargzaunt, Arruur St. Georce; Exbury, Padstow, Cornwall. Sarcent, James; 76 Jermyn Street, St. James’s, 8. W. Saunpers, W. H. Rapcurre ; 134 The Grove, Ealing, W. Scuwann, Grorrrey; 11 Onslow Crescent, S.W. Scawann, Harorp; 45 Brompton Square, 8.W. XIf Scrater, Patrre Lurrzy, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Chairman) ; Odiham Priory, Winchfield, Hants ; and Atheneum Club, London, 8.W. Scrater, WittiamM Lutter; 10 Sloane Court, S.W. Setous, Freperick Courtenny ; Heatherside, Worplesdon, Surrey. Seru-Smirx, Davin; 34 Elsworthy Road, South Hampstead, N.W. Seru-Smire, Lusztize Morrat, B.A.; Alleyne, Caterham Valley, Surrey. Seton, M.C. C.; 13 Clarendon Road, Holland Park, W. SHARMAN, Frepertc; 47 Goldington Road, Bedford. Smattey, Freppric W.; Challan Hall, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth. Sparrow, Major R.; 7th Dragoon Guards, Trimulgherry, Deccan, India. SranrorpD, E. Fraser; 9 Cumberland House, Kensington Court, W. Srares, J. W. C.; Portchester, Hants. Srennousn, J. H., M.B., R.N.; H.M.S. ‘Queen,’ 2nd Fleet, c/o Postmaster General. Sruppy, Colonel Roperr Wricut; Waddeton Court, Brixham, Devon. Srvan, F. W.; Ben Craig, Bayham Road, Sevenoaks. SwinHok, Colonel C.; 6 Gunterstone Road, W. Kensington, W. Swyynerton, C. F. Masny; Gungunyana, Melsetter District, S. Rhodesia. TatBor-Ponsonsy, C. G.; 5 Crown Office Row, Temple, E.C. Terry, Major Horace A.; The Lodge, Upper Halliford, Shepperton. THorsurn, ArcHrBaLp ; High Leybourne, Hascombe, Godalming. TiceHurst, Craup B., M.B.; Grove House, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Ticenurst, N. F., F.R.C.S. ; 35 Pevensey Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea. TownsEnp, R. G.; Buckholt, Dean, Salisbury. Trevor-Barryre, Ausyn B. R.; Ashford Chase, Petersfield, Hants. Tyrwuitt-Draxe, Hoes G.; Cobtree, Sandling, Maidstone. Urcuer, Henry Morris; Sheringham Hall, Sheringham, R.S.0. Ussuer, R. J.; Cappagh House, Cappagh, 8.0., Co. Waterford. VaueHan, Marraew; Sunnylands, Milton, Pewsey, Wilts. VaueHan, Lt.-Comm. Rosurt E.; Lion Commercial Hotel, Ports- mouth. Watts, H. M.; Ashton Lodge, Christchurch Road, Reading. Warton, Major H., I.M.S8.; The Medical College, Lucknow, India. Warptaw-Ramsay, Colonel R. G.; Whitehill, Rosewell, Mid- Lothian, N.B. Wauiraker, Joseru I. 8.; Malfitano, Palermo, Sicily. Wuire, 8. J.; Oakwood, Crayford, Kent. XIII Wuizernead, Captain C. H. T.; 50th Rifles, Kohat, India. Wuymerr, Cartes; 11 Orange Street, Haymarket, S.W. Wuywmeerr, Samvet Leten; Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W. Wixxinson, Jounson ; St. George’s Square, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Witson, Coartes Josepo; 34 York Terrace, N.W. Witson, Scorr B.; Heather Bank, Weybridge Heath, Surrey. Wiruersy, Harry F. (Seeretary and Treasurer) ; 826 High Holborn, W.C. Wiruerineron, G.; Aberlash, Sonning, Reading. Wottaston, A, F. R.; 28 Langham Mansions, EKarl’s Court Square, S.W. Woopuousz, Cxcrz, M.D.; Buckland House, Esher, Surrey. Workman, Witt1am Hueues; Lismore, Windsor, Belfast. Wryynz, R. O.; Langley Mount, Watford. [Members are requested to keep the Secretary informed of any changes in their addresses. | Bo Cems, £ art ~y adh Ae isi On AU LEO his AND OTHER PERSONS REFERRED TO. Astiey, H. D, Exhibition of two living examples of Psephotus dis- similis, 55. Baker, H. C. Stuart. Exhibition of clutches of eggs of Falco severus and F. peregrinator, 8. ——. Remarks on eggs of the Cranes, 24. —-. Exhibition of a series of eggs of Asiatic parasitic Cuckoos, and eggs of their foster parents, 34. ——. Description of a new subspecies of Warbler (Acanthopneuste trochiloides harterti from Khasia Hills, 36. ——. KExhibition and description of a new species of Thrush (Oreocincla whiteheati) from the Khaghan Valley, with notes by Capt. C. H. T. Whitehead, 79-80. ——. Remarks on Oreocincla mollissima and O. dixont, 81. ——. Correction of his description of Acanthopneuste trochiloides harterti, 82. ——. KExhibition of eggs of various Indian birds, 82-83. BANNERMAN, D. A. Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of Oyster-catcher (Hematopus niger meade-waldor) from the Canary Islands, 33. ——. Description of a new species of Thrush (Turdus swynnerton:) from Rhodesia, 56. —-. Remarks on the Lesser Black-backed Gull found in the Canary Islands, 69, 70. Bipwett, E. Remarks on Starlings supposed to be double-brooded, 64, 65. ——. On the “coming of age” of the B.O.C., with suggestion that it should be celebrated in some suitable way, 70. Borrer, Crirrorp. Exhibition of a variety of the Song-Thrush and of skins of the Continental Song-Thrush, 20, ——. Exhibition of a variety of the Wheatear (Gmanthe enanthe), 111. —. Exhibition of two clutches of red eggs of the Common. Tern, 112. XVI Bunyarp, P. F. Exhibition of remarkably coloured eggs, 20-21. —. Exhibition of eggs, 28. ——. Exhibition of eggs of the Golden-eye and of Barrow’s Golden-eye, 28. Exhibition and remarks on some abnormally coloured eggs, 62. Exhibition of a Kingfisher showing variation in plumage, 62. Exhibition of eggs, down, and body-feathers of various species of Grey Geese, 70, 71. ae Cuuss, C. On behalf of Mr. F. V. McConnell, exhibition of examples of Berlepschia rikeri, Chlorophonia roraime, and Oceanodroma leucorrhoa from the Essequibo River, 39. ——. On the priority of Myiospiza humeralis (Bosc) over M. manimbe (Licht.). Topaza smaragdulus (Bosc) is the female of T. pella (Linn.), 39. CrarKE, Colonel SrrPHENSON. On a shooting-trip in British E. Africa, 31. —. Exhibition of rare birds, 32 ——. Description of two new species, Heterhyphantes golandi and Laniarius quadricolor nigricauda, 32. ——. Exhibition and description of two new African birds, Stizorhina vulpina intermedia and Caprimulgus ludovicianus, 108. CrarkKE, W. Eacrtr. See Ticenurst, C. B., 113. CouueTTt, Prof. Ropert. Notice of death of, 44. Committee, Election of, 1. Courtors, Rev. J. Description of anew species of Pucras Pheasant (Pucrasia joretiana) from the Province of Anhwei, 7, Facan, C. E. On G. W. Bury’s Expedition to Yemen, 85-86. Grant, C. H. B. Amended name, Heteromirafra ruddi, for Heteronyx ruddi, 114. Gurney, J. H. Exhibition of a copy of Major’s ‘ Chronicle’ (1521), 54. Hats, Rev. J. R. Exhibition of a cinnamon-coloured Blackbird, 20. ——. Exhibition of eggs of the Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), 20. Harinaton, Major H. H. Description of a new subspecies of Swift (Cypselus pacificus cooki) from the Northern Shan States, 57. ——. Exhibition and description of new subspecies of Indian birds (Suya erinigera cooki, S. c. yunnanensis, Prinia mornata bur- manica, and P. t. formosa), 109-111. XVII Harrert, Dr. Ernst. Account of his journey to the Western Sahara, 2. ——. Exhibition and description of new birds from the Islands of Molucca and from Uganda: Phyllergates cucullatus batjanensis, Stoparola panayensis obiensis and Cossypha somereni, 2-8. ——. Exhibition of an example of Calamocichla jacksoni, 3. —. Description of a new form of Starling (thiopsar cristatellus Sormosanus) from the Island of Formosa, 14. ——. On behalf of Mr, E. Stresemann, on a new species of Flycatcher (Abrornis sakaiorum) from the Malay Peninsula, 27. : —. Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of Barn-Owl from the Cape Verde Is. (7yto alba detorta), 38. Heitimayr, C. E. Description of two new subspecies: Grallaria guatemalensis arypoensis and Geotrygon linearis from the Island of Trinidad, 13. Ingram, C. Remarks on examples of the Greater Bird-of-Paradise released on Little Tobago, 63. TREDALE, T. Exhibition and remarks on the type-specimen of Larus afinis Reinh. Larus fuscus antelius amended name for the larger form of the Lesser Black-backed Gull, 69. Jackson, Sir Frepericx J. Description of a new species of Cuckoo- Shrike (Campophaga martini) from British East Africa, 18. JouRDAIN, Rev. F. C. R. Exhibition of eggs of the Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum gibbericeps), 24. On the importance of keeping of incubation-records, 25. Remarks on supposed breeding of Corvus corniz in the Balearic Isles, 98. Keisaty, Major H. J. Exhibition of an abnormal specimen of the Standard-winged Nightjar (Macrodipteryx macrodipterus), 76. ——. Description of anew species of Shrike (Laniarius helene) from Sierra Leone, 85. Ktoss, C. Bopuy. Remarks on the distribution of some of the species obtained by the New Guinea Expedition, 106. La Tovcue, J. D. Description of a new species of Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus tangorum) from N.E. Chihli, China, 10, Lynezs, Capt. H. Remarks on Lusciniola pryert sinensis, 12, Matuews, G. M. Exhibition and remarks on the type of Psephotus dissimilis Collett, 55, 56, ——. Description of a new subspecies of Australian birds, Péilotis ornata westleydale: & P. 0. underbooli, 68. VOL. XXXI, b XVIII MuapdE-Watpo, 8. G. B. Remarks on the successful preservation of the Kite in Wales, 24. Remarks on the Lesser Black-backed Gull of the Canary Islands, 69. Mount, H. Exhibition of eggs of three Lories and a Pigeon, 63. Oarttvir-Grant, W. R. Remarks on Luseiniola pryert sinensis, 13. Remarks on Abrornis albigularis formosana Laubmann= Crypto- lopha fulvifacies Swinh., 14. Description of a new subspecies of Pheasant, Phasianus straucht chonensis, from S.W. Kansu, 16. Remarks on the progress of Mr. Wollaston’s Expedition to New Guinea, 16. On a new species of Seed-eater (Poliospiza elgonensis) from Mt. Elgon, 17. Exhibition of a Golden-eye and remarks (illustrated by text- figures) on the differences between Barrow’s Golden-eye and the common Golden-eye, 18-20, 29. Exhibition of a variety of Blackbird, 20. Exhibition of Phasianus strauchi chonensis, 27. On behalf of Mr. R. M. Barrington: exhibition of a white variety of the Teal ( Querquedula crecca), 38. Remarks on a specimen of Lagopus scoticus, 41. Remarks on a small collection and descriptions of new species of birds from Henderson Island, $. Pacific :—~ } ase = Vol. xxxi.] d2 of birds, and on their return to Mombasa had sent a native collector to work along the coast to Lamu, and had thus obtained skins of several rare species, as well as two which appeared to be new to science. He exhibited specimens of the following :— 1. Ureginthus cyanocephalus Richmond, near Chanlers Falls, Guaso Nyiro. An immature specimen pre- sented by Colonel Clarke was the only example in the Natural History Museum. 2. Erythrocercus holochlorus Erlanger, coast south of Lamu. A species not represented in the Museum. 3. Stizorhina grandis O.-Grant, Malindi. The type speci- men in the Museum was the only example hitherto known. 4. Macronyx aurantiigula Reichenow, Malindi. Three examples of this rare and beautiful Long-claw had recently been presented to the Museum by My. A. B. Percival and Mr. Guy Blaine, The new forms he proposed to describe as follows :— HaTERHYPHANTES GOLANDI, sp. n. Adult male. Resembles the adult female of H. reichenowi (Fischer), but the chin, throat, fore-neck, upper breast, and thighs are black ; the bastard-primary is narrow and slender, measuring 16 mm., while in H. reichenowi it is much wider and twice as long. Hab. British East Africa. Type in the British Museum: g. Mombasa. Presented by Col. S. R. Clarke. LANIARIUS QUADRICOLOR NIGRICAUDA, subsp. n. Laniarius quadricolor Bannerman (nec Cassin), Ibis, 1910, p. 689. Adult male. Differs from the male of L. guadricolor Cassin in having the middle pair of tail-feathers black almost to the base, like the outer pairs, and the scarlet colour on the upper breast, below the black pectoral band, continued over ‘the abdomen. Wing 79 mm. Adult female. Similar to the male, but with all the tail- 33 [ Vol. xxxi. feathers green and with very little scarlet on the upper breast only, the belly and under tail-coverts being yellowish- green. From the female of ZL. quadricolor it differs in having a black pectoral band. As the tail-feathers in this specimen are in moult and a partially grown feather on the left side is green like the rest, it seems probable that the sex has been correctly determined by the native collector, and that the specimen is not an immature male, as might at first be supposed. Hab. Coastal Districts of British East Africa: Lamu, Takaungu, Malindi, Rovuma. Type in the British Museum: [ ¢] No. 123. Takaungu, 15.11.01. Presented by A. B. Percival. Obs. There are five male examples of this subspecies in the British Museum: we procured three males and a female. Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited specimens of a new subspecies of Oyster-catcher found in the eastern islands of the Canary group, and made the following remarks :— ““The existence of a black Oyster-catcher in the Canary Islands is by no means a recent discovery. It is, however, decidedly a scarce bird and very poorly represented in museums. There are two adult females in the British Museum from Graciosa and Fuerteventura, presented by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, and an adult male in the Liverpool Museum from Graciosa, procured by the late Canon Tristram, and kindly lent me for examination by Dr. Clubb. Up to the present time these specimens had been considered identical with Hematopus niger, the Black Oyster-catcher found in South Africa, but on comparing birds from the two localities it at once became apparent that important differences existed. I therefore propose to name this bird H&MATOPUS NIGER MEADE-WALDOI, subsp. u. Hematopus capensis Meade-Waldo (nec Licht.), Ibis, 1889, pp. 18, 008; 1890, p. 437; 1893, p. 204. Adult, Similar to H. niger Temm., but decidedly smaller, Vol. xxxi. | 34 particularly as regards the measurement of the wing, but with the culmen conspicuously longer and the tarsus more slender. The basal portion of the inner webs of the primaries is white, formi»g a large patch, partially concealed by the under wing-coverts. In H. niger there is scarcely any white at the base of the quills, though the primaries become hghter towards the base. Hematopus niger. H. n. meade-waldor. Wine hs aise 285 mm. Wing ¢...... 259 mm. Ae dae oe . 275 mm. 1) (Qin eee 6 200200 Mamas Culmen ...... 69-71 mm. Culmen ...... 77-81-mm.* Hab. Vastern Canary Islands: Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Graciosa. Type in the British Museum: 2. Jandia, Fuerteventura, 7.iv.88. Presented by E. G. B. Meade- Waldo. Qbs. Mr. Meade-Waldo has recorded the specimens obtained by Tristram and himself in his papers published in the ‘Ibis’ and quoted above. Those from Graciosa were a breeding pair: the female from Fuerteventura was also a breeding bird and contained well-developed eggs. Mr. E. C. Sruarr Baker exhibited a series of eggs of Asiatic parasitic Cuckoos, from an examination of which he maintained that certain definite conclusions could be drawn, the principal amongst these being :— (1) That parasitic Cuckoos, as a group, nearly always laid very small eggs in proportion to the size of the parent, and it was therefore probable that a small egg was gradually being evolved by the elimination of those which were most strikingly disproportionate in size when compared with eggs of the foster-parent. The adoption and incubation of the large eggs of Cuculus canorus bakeri by small birds of the genera Cisticolg, Suya, Orthotomus, &c., showed, however, that evolution in this direction must be exceedingly slow. * The male has the culmen somewhat shorter than the female, as in other species of Oyster-catcher. 35 (Vol. xxxi, (2) That a process of adaptation in colour was most undoubtedly being undergone. (3) That evolution in shape was not indicated. Amongst the series exhibited, Mr. Stuart Baker showed that in some cases, as in the eggs of Coccystes and of Hierococcyx varius, adaptation in colour had reached great perfection and that it was only in abnormal cases that the Cuckoo’s egg did not agree with that of the foster-parent. With other eggs it was manifest that evolution was still in progress, the most noticeable case in this respect being the marvellous adaptation obtaming in the eggs of Cuckoos of the genus Cacomantis. Whilst asserting that it could hardly be doubted that evolution in adaptation was in progress, Mr. Stuart Baker repeatedly emphasized the fact that this evolution was brought about not by creation, but by elimina- tion. It seemed to him that amongst the foster-parents selected by the Cuckoo to hatch its eggs birds were occa- sionally met with sufficiently clever to discover the difference between their own eggs and that of the Cuckoo. The more startling the difference the easier it would be for the foster- parent to exercise this power of discrimination, and so by very slow degrees those individual Cuckoos whose eggs were unlike the eggs of any foster-parent would gradually die out, whilst those laying eggs more like the eges of the host would persist. Evolution was brought about by the foster-parent and not by the Cuckoo. Another important point alluded to was that if evolution was admitted, it was possible to estimate the comparative age of the various genera amongst parasitic Cuckoos. Thus Cuculus canorus and its subspecies were probably of modern origin, only commencing to evolve eggs of any particular colour and as yet quite indifferent as to what species of host they might select. Coccystes, on the contrary, would appear to be a very ancient form of Cuckoo, in which evolution in the colour of the eggs had been perfected and the number of foster-parents reduced to species of one or two genera, all laying similarly coloured eggs, Vol. xxxt. | 36 Mr. Sruart Baker also described a new subspecies of Warbler, which he proposed to call ACANTHOPNEUSTE TROCHILOIDES HARTERTI, subsp. 0. This subspecies differs from A. ¢. trochiloides in its some- what smaller size, the wings of the males varying from 53 _to 56 mm. and those of the females from 50 to 55 mm. as “against 57 and 63 mm. in J. ¢. trochiloides (Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 522). In general coloration this new subspecies is somewhat darker and brighter, the yellow bars on the wing are more developed and of a deeper tint, and the white on the outer webs of the two outermost pairs of rectrices of much greater extent. In A. ¢. trochiloides the white is generally confined to a very narrow edging and tip, and is often not to be seen at all on the penultimate pair; in A. t. harterti the white often covers nearly the whole of the outer webs of the outermost pair and sometimes the greater part of the penultimate pair. The wing-formulais the same as in A. ¢. trochiloides, the second primary being inter- mediate in length between the eighth and tenth, generally equal to the tenth. Hab. Assam Hills, 4000-6000 feet. Types in the Tring Museum: ¢ 2. Peak near Shillong, Khasia Hills, 18. vi.08. H.C. Stuart Baker coll. Obs. This is a small local form of A. ¢. trochilotdes which I discovered breeding in the Khasia Hills at an elevation between 4000 and 6000 feet. Surprised at finding a bird of normally high elevations, of 9000 feet upwards, breeding so low down, I trapped a number on their nests and was at once struck by their small size and dark coloration. On my arrival in England last year I compared my birds with a series of A. ¢. trochiloides in the Trmg Museum and then found the above differences to exist, and my conclusions have been confirmed this year by comparison with additional material. This bird is a very common breeding species in the Khasia Hills and makes a beautiful egg-shaped nest of brilliant 37 Wolo xx green moss, placed either on a high sloping bank or wall, or against the trunk of some moss-covered dead tree. The eggs, three to five in number, are pure white, smooth and fragile, and usually without much gloss. They are of a rather long poimted oval shape, and the average measurements of 25 eges are 16°5 x 12°5 min. Two birds obtained by me in Dibrugarh in October— November, 1901, would appear to be of this subspecies, as they are both males with a wing-measurement of less than 57 mm. It may be, therefore, that the non-migratory form extends all through the mountain-ranges south of the Brahmapootra, from the Khasia Hills to the Trans-Dikku Naga Hills in the extreme east of Assam. Birds were taken on their nests on the 13th of June, 1908. I name this species after Dr. Ernst Hartert, who has done so much to elucidate the difficulties of this most puzzling group of Warblers. Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited an example of the Barn- Owl from the Cape Verde Islands, obtained by the late Boyd Alexander ; he also showed examples of some of the allied forms, and made the following remarks :— “In the ‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie,’ 1872, p. 23, Pelzeln described an Owl from the island of St. Vincent as ‘ Strix insularis” The specimen was purchased from a dealer in London and was said to have come from St. Vincent ‘in America. A perusal of Pelzeln’s description shows that it refers to the Owl found-in St. Vincent, West Indies. Unfortunately, however, the author believed that the bird came from St. Vincent, one of the Cape Verde group, and Sharpe, Salvadori, and other ornithologists have since used | the name Strix insularis for the Barn-Owl met with in those islands. Itis evident that they could not have read Pelzeln’s description. The fact that he says it is the smallest of all Barn-Owls, even smaller than S, punctatissima from the Galapagos Islands, is sufficient to show that he referred to the West Indian bird. Until 1911 the small Owl from Vol. xxxi.] 38 St. Vincent, West Indies, was believed to be the same as the bird from Dominica—i. e., 7. a. nigrescens Lawrence; but recently it has been separated as a new subspecies under the name of Hybris nigrescens noctividus | Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiv. p. 57 (1911) | (Grenada). It is quite clear that the Owl from St. Vincent, West Indies, must be called 7. a. wnsularis Pelzeln, while that from the Cape Verde Islands remains unnamed. I propose to call it Tyro ALBA DETORTA, subsp. n. This Owl differs widely from the West-Indian T. a. insularis Pelzeln in its larger size and in the different markings on the underparts of the body, but it is so closely allied to the dark continental form of the European Barn-Owl, that one can only separate it from the latter by the larger black and white spots on the upperside and by the more thinly feathered metatarsus. From the smaller 7. a. gracilirostris of the eastern Canary Islands it differs in its generally larger dimensions, and from 7. a. maculata of tropical Africa it is distinguished by the constantly dark orange-brown colour of the underside and by the smaller spots. Wing 287-300 mm. (Five specimens examined.) On behalf of Mr. R. M. Barrinetron, Mr, Ocitviz-Grant exhibited a remarkable variety of the Common Teal (Querquedula crecca) which had been killed at Thurles, Co. Tipperary, on the 15th of October, 1912. - The bird was a male with the head and neck in almost normally coloured immature plumage, but with the re- mainder of the body and wings mostly white. The upper- parts showed the finely vermiculated markings of the adult ; the chest was spotted with black; the secondaries were black on the greater part of the outer web, with the basal part metallic green, but this colour did not extend to the tips of the quills on the innermost feathers as in normally marked specimens; the primary-quills and tail-feathers were more or less blackish towards the tip ; the upper tail-coverts 39 | Vol. xxxi. showed a certain amount of dark pigment and cinnamon- buff, while the under tail-coverts were mostly of the latter colour. Varieties of this kind amongst Teal were extremely rare: Mr. Walter Rothschild possessed a curious cream-coloured specimen. Messrs. Williams & Son, Naturalists, Dublin, had kindly forwarded the specimen exhibited, which had now become the property of Mr. J. B. Nichols. Mr. C. Cuuss exhibited, on behalf of Mr. F. V. McConnett, examples of Berlepschia rikeri, Chlorophonia rorame, and Oceanodroma leucorrhoa, which had been collected on the east bank of the Essequibo River, near the mouth. He said that Mr. McConnell had very kindly presented one of his two examples of Berlepschia rikert to the Natural History Museum, where the species had not hitherto been represented. -Mr. Cuvuss also remarked that Dr. C. W. Richmond had drawn his attention to the following descriptions :— Mytospiza humeralis (Bosc), Journ. d’ Hist, Nat. 1. p. 179, pl. xxxiv. fig. 4 (1792: Cayenne), which had priority over M. manimbe (Licht.), 1823. | Topaza smaragdulus (Bosc), op. cit. i. p. 385, pl. xx. fig. 5 (4792), which was the female of Topaza pella (Linn.), 1758. Mr. Wiruersy exhibited the following varieties of Game- Birds which he had recently received :— 1. Brackcock (Lyrurus tetriv).—A male killed at Bogra Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, on the 10th of December, 1912, by Mr. R. Martin, whose brother had kindly brought it to Mr. Witherby for examination. This was apparently a bird of the year, and was very much like the Blackcock he had exhibited at the Meeting held on the 12th of April, 1911 (Bull. B.O. C. xxvii. p. 79). It had most of the feathers of the head, neck, upper mantle, throat, and upper breast barred Vol. xxxi.] 40 with reddish-brown; most of the scapulars, wing-coverts, tail-feathers, and upper tail-coverts vermiculated with brown, and three scapulars tipped with white ; many feathers on the breast tipped, barred, streaked, or vermiculated with white or grey, and several similar feathers on the belly. The tail was normally shaped, but one side was slightly more curved than the other. The bird was moulting on the head, breast, upper mantle, and other parts, and the feathers actually growing were normally coloured. Exactly the same thing had been noted in the other specimen, and Mr. Witherby concluded that at the time they were killed, and while the moult was still in progress, the birds had recovered from the loss or disturbance of pigment which had apparently caused the abnormal coloration. The testes of the bird appeared to Mr. Witherby to be quite normal. 2. Purasant (Phasianus colchicus).—A female caught by a keeper at Springkell, Dumfriesshire, in December 1912, and kindly sent to Mr. Witherby by Mr. A. Johnson- Ferguson. This was a very remarkable specimen showing a com- bination of melanism, erythrism, and albinism. The whole of the upperside and wing-coverts were so suffused with black and deep brown that the usual greyish-buff edgings and markings had almost disappeared, and were only repre- sented by narrow wavy lines near the tips and notch-shaped markings on the edges of the feathers. The back of the neck and upper mantle were dark chestnut marked with black, and many of the feathers had small metallic-green tips. The chin, throat, lores (on one side only), and sides of the neck had many white or white-tipped feathers, and there were a number of white feathers on the points of the wings (carpal joints), and a trace of white on some of the feathers of the belly. ‘The whole of the rest of the underparts were rich chestnut, with large black spots and bars, and a narrow penultimate dark buff band on most of the feathers. The tail was of a dark brown like the back, 41 [ Vol. xxxi. with broad black markings and narrow reddish-buff wavy bands. The ovary was normal, but the bird was in an emaciated condition and had some yellow watery sores under the skin. 3. Rep Grouse (Lagopus scoticus).—An adult female, killed at Kirkconnell, Kirkcudbrightshire, on the 12th of December, 1912, and kindly sent to Mr. Witherby by Mr. H. S. Gladstone. This bird had most of the feathers of the throat and breast, as well as a large number on the right flank and a much smaller number on the left flank, barred with yellow and black like the summer-plumage, while a number of other feathers were partially barred and blotched with yellow. One or two of the under tail-coverts and some of the feathers on the legs were also similarly barred. The upperparts, lower breast, and belly were in normal winter-plumage. The bird was moulting, and all the feathers with sheaths were barred with yellow and black. The ovary was normal, and the oviduct being much dis- tended near the distal end indicated that eggs had been laid, and that the bird was, therefore, an adult. The body was in good condition, and there did not appear to be any intestinal worms. ° Mr. Witherby concluded that this bird, for some reason, had moulted late, and that during the course of the moult the pigment had changed to that producing the summer- plumage. ‘his explanation, he thought, would account for the facts that none of the normally coloured winter-feathers had sheaths though they were not abraided, that some of the feathers were partially of winter- and partially of summer- plumage pattern, and that many of the entirely summer- plumage feathers had sheaths and were therefore of the most recent growth. Mr. Ocitvie-Grant said that it seemed to him probable that this specimen had suffered from disease, and though it Vol. xxxi. | 42 had subsequently entirely recovered, its moults had been upset and the assumption of summer-plumage retarded for several months. The shape and large size of the black-and- buff barred flank-feathers clearly showed that they belonged to the nesting-plumage, the autumn-feathers being always much smaller. The next Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, the 12th of February, 1913, at PAGANI’S RESTAURANT, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W.; the Dinner at 7 p.m. Members of the Club intending to dine are requested to inform Mr. Witherby, at 326 High Holborn, W.C. [ N.B.—Members who intend to make any communication at the next Meeting of the Club are requested to give notice beforehand to the [ditor, also to supply him with a written account of anything intended for publication. | (Signed) P.L.Scrater, W.R.Ocitvir-Granr, H.F. Witrnersy, Chairman. Editor. Sec. & Treas. INDEX. Abrornis albigularis, 14. formosana, 14, sakaiorum, 27. schwaneri, 28. vordermanni, 27. Acanthis cannabina, 89. Acanthopneuste harterti, 36, 82. trochiloides, 36, 82. Accentor fagani, 88. modularis, 64. ocularis, 88. Accipiter albus, 51. gentilis, 49, 51. acik, Chalcomitra, 84. Acridotheres tristis, 46. Acrocephalus agricola, 10. schcenobsenus, 47. —— stentoreus, 47. streperus, 63. = =— (onlin, BS, 0 tangorum, 10, vaughani, 59. Acryllium vulturinum xX Gallus gallus, Actinodura khasiana, 82. acuta, Dafila, 50. sesalon, Falco, 28. estigma, Cyornis, 85. restiva, Amazona, 48. /Kthiopsar cristatellus, 14. formosanus, 14. afer, Hurystomus, 84. affinis, Larus, 68. agricola, Acrocephalus, 10. Aix sponsa, 51. x Anas penelope, 53. x Anas platyrhyncha, 53. x Darfila acuta, 53. x Nyroca clangula, 53. x Nyroca ferina, 55. < Nyroea fuligula, 53. x Nyroca nyroca, 53. —— X Tadorna tadorna, 53. alba, Tyto, 58. VOL. XXXII. He LITT albertisi, Gymnophaps, 103, 106. albifrons, Anser, 70, 71. albigularis, Abrornis, 14. albivitta, Aulacorhamphus, 48. albus, Accipiter, 51. anale, Edoliisoma, 105, Anas chlorotis, 49, crecca, 49. discors, 49. penelope, 49. -—— x A. crecca, 52. —— > A. sibilatrix, 52. x Nyroca fuligula, 53. platyrhyncha, 51. x A. obscura, 52. -—— x A. penelope, 52. —— > Dafila acuta, 52: — x Dafila spinicauda, 52. — xX Somateria mollissima, DO ade 52. Andropadus virens, 84. Anous leucocapillus, 61. Anser albifrons, 70, 71. anser, 70, 71. —— brachyrhynchus, 70, 71. fabalis, 70, 71. finmarchicus, 70, 71. antelius, Larus, 69. Anthornis melanura, 47. Anthothreptes hypodila, 84, Anthus gutturalis, 105, —— richardi, 82. rufulus, 82. striolatus, 82. wollastoni, 105. antigone, Grus, 24. antipodum, Megadyptes, 50. Anurophasis monorthonyx, 103 apoda, Paradisea, 63. ‘ Aprosmictus wilhelminaz, 104. Aptenodytes forsteri, 45. patagonica, 50, Vol xxxa;} 118 Apus affinis galilejensis, 107. Calliptilus stepheni, 77. aquaticus, Rallus, 50. Camaroptera chrysocnemis, 54. Aquila chrysaétus, 28. Campephilus melanoleucus, 47. Ara chloroptera X A. militaris, 51, Campophaga martini, 18. 54. pheenicea, 84. arctica, Fratercula, 21. quiscalina, 18. arcuata, Dendrocygna, 49. candida, Gygis, 61. ardens, Xanthomelas, 104. canifrons, Spizixus, 82. arenaria, Calidris, 61. cannabina, Acanthis, 89. ariel, Prion, 50. canorus, Ouculus, 34, 35, 63. aripoensis, Grallaria, 13. ; capensis, Heematopus, 393. Astrapia splendidissima, 104. Caprimulgus europzus, 21, 62. atrigularis, Suya, 109. , Turdus, 87. inornatus, 108. ludovicianus, 108. aucklandiea, Gallinago, 45. carolinus, Scolecophagus, 46. Aulacorhamphus albivitta, 48. carunculata, Paradigalla, 105. aurantiigula, Macronyx, 32. Casarca ferruginea X O. tadornoides, austeni, Grammatoptila, 82. 52. , lanthocinela, 82. x Tadorna tadorna, 52. australis, Vini, 60. cervicalis, Garrulus, 107. Avocet, 92, 93. Chaffinch, 94. Chalecomitra acik, 84. Chaleopsittacus scintillatus, 63. bakeri, Cuculus, 34, chalecurus, Ptilopus, 61, 77. , Trochalopterum, 82. Charmosynopsis multistriata, 104. Balearica gibbericeps, 24. Chelidon daurica rufula, 107. pavonina, 85, 84. urbica, 64. regulorum, 24. Chenalopex mgyptiaca Xx Cairina barbarus, Laniarius, 85. moschata, 52. Barnardius semitorquatus xX Platy- x Casarea ferruginea, cercus eximius, 51. 52. batjanensis, Phyllergates, 2. —— — xX Chloephaga magellanica, Berlepschia rikeri, 59. 52. blaauwi, Psephotus, 56. Chenopsis atrata X Anser ferus, 52. Blackbird, 95. , Chiffchaff, 92. blanfordi, Prinia, 111. chlorolepidotus, Trichoglossus, 51. Bleda pallidigula, 84. Chlorophonia roraime, 39. bottz, Ginanthe, 87. chloroptera, Ara, X A. militaris, 51, brachyrhyncbus, Anser, 70, 71. 54. Brambling, 93. chloropygius, Cinnyris, 84. brevicauda, Paradigalla, 106. chlorotis, Anas, 49 britannicus, Larus, 68. chonensis, Phasianus, 16, 27. , Lyrurus, 54. chrysaétus, Aquila, 28. Bullfineh, 94. chrysocnemis, Camaroptera, 84. , Northern, 93. Chrysococcyx klaasi, 84. Bunting, Cirl-, 94. Chrysomitris frontalis, 84. , Common, 94. chrysopterum, Trochalopterum, 82. ——., Meadow-, 94. chrysopterygius, Psephotus, 55, 56. ——, Reed-, 94. cinerea, Pseudominla, 83. burmaniea, Prinia, 111. Cinnyris chloropygius, 84. Burnesia reichenowi, 84. Circus gouldi, 49. buryi, Parisoma, 87. Cirl-Bunting, 94. Buzzard, Common, 95. Cissa ornata, 82. Cisticola sylvia, 84. citreoloides, Motacilla, 75. cabanisi, Turdus, 56. citrina, Geocichla, 82. cerulea, Procelsterna, 61. Clangula glaucion, 18, 19, 28, 29. Calamocichla jacksoni, 3. islandica, 18, 19, 28, 29. Calandra Lark, 95. clot-bey, Rhamphocorys, 106. Calidris arenaria, 61. clypeata, Spatula, 50. 119 colchicus, Phasianus, 40, 45. communis, Sylvia, 62. continentalis, Hmberiza, 74. cooki, Cypselus, 57. , Suya crinigera, 109. coralensis, Ptilopus, 61, 77. Cormorant, 96. cornix, Corvus, 46, 98. corone, Corvus, 98. Corvus cornix, 46, 98. corone, 98. Cossypha melanonota, 84. ——- natalensis, 83, 84. somereni, 9. Coturnix coturnix, 45, 51. Crane, 92. erecea, Anas, 49. , Nettion, 21. , Querquedula, 38. Crested Lark, 95, crinigera, Suya, 109, 110. cristatellus, Aithiopsar, 14. Crow, Hooded, 94. Cryptolopha fulvifacies, 14. umbrovirens, 90. yemenensis, 90. Cuckoo, 92. cucullatus, Psephotus, 55, 56. Cuculus bakeri, 34. canorus, 04, 35, 63. cunicularia, Speotyto, 48. curvirostra, Loxia, 20. cyanea, Platystira, 84. cyanocephalus, Urzginthus, 32. Cyclopsittacus godmani, 104. Cyornis estigma, 83. hodgsoni, 83. --— pallidipes, 83. Cypselus cooki, 57. pacificus, 57. Dabchick, 96. Dafila acuta, 50. x Anas crecea, 53, —— —— X Anas penelope, 53. x Anas strepera, 53. Spinicauda < Anas strepera, 53. — X Pecilonetita bahamensis, 53. darwini, Pucrasia, 7. daurica, Hirundo, &3. Dendrocygna arcuata, 49, deningeri, Stigmatops, 6. ——, 'lurdus, 4. derbianus, Lyrurus, 91. detorta, Tyto, 38. Diczum trigonostigma, 82. diffusus, Passer, 84, [ Vol. xxx. dimidiatus, Hyphantornis, 84. Dipper, Black-bellied, 95. , White-throated, 95. diseors, Anas, 49. dissimilis, Psephotus, 55, 56. Diver, 96. dixoni, Oreocincla, 81. Dove, Ringed Turtle-, 96. , stock-, 96. Duck, Tufted, 94. dumasi, Phyllergates, 2. Hagle, Bonelli’s, 95. , Golden, 96. , Imperial, 96. Edoliisoma anale, 105, poliopse, LOS. utakwensis, 105. Egret, White, 96. elegans, Phasianus, 16. , Platycercus, 48. elgonensis, Poliospiza, 17, 18. Elninia longicauda, 84. Hmberiza yessoénsis, 74, 75. continentalis, 74. eminentissima, Foudia,, 26. emini, Terpsiphone, 84. Eos semilarvata, 15. Erithacus rubecula, 62. erythrocephala, Foudia, 27. Erythrocercus holochlorus, 32. Erythrospiza githaginea zedlitzi, 106. Erythrura prasina, 46, psittacea, 46. europeeus, Caprimulgus, 21, 62. Eurystomus afer, 84. everetti, Phyllergates, 2. eximius, Platycercus, x P. elegans, 51. ,——_, X P. flaveolus, 51. extensicauda, Prinia, 111. fabalis, Anser, 70, 71. fagani, Accentor, 88. Falco salon, 28. peregrinator, 8. peregrinus, 62. severus, 8. finmarchicus, Anser, 70, 71. Flamingo, 92. flavala, Hemixus, 82. fluviatilis, Sterna, 112. forbesi, Rallicula, 104. formosa, Prinia, 111. formosana, Abrornis, 14. formosanus, Adthiopsar, 14, forsteri, Aptenodytes, 40. Vol. xxxi.] Foudia eminentissima, 26. erythrocephala, 27. — omissa, 28. rubra, 27. Francolinus francolinus, 50. Fratercula arctica, 21. Fringilla montifringilla, 28. frontalis, Chrysomitris, 84. frugilegus, Trypanocorax, 76. fulvifacies, Crytolopha, 14. fuscus, Larus, 69. galilejensis, Apus, 107. Gallinago aucklandica, 45. gallinago, 45. megala, 10. Garganey, 93. Garrulus glandarius cervicalis, 107. minor, 107. whitakeri, 106, 107. gentilis, Accipiter, 49, 51. Geocichla citrina, 82. Geotrygon linearis, 13. trinitatis, 15. venezuelensis, 13. gibbericeps, Balearica, 24. glacialis, Harelda, 7. glaucion, Clangula, 18, 19, 28, 29. Glossy Ibis, 92. godmani, Cyclopsittacus, 104. golandi, Heterhyphantes, 52. Golderest, 95. Goldfinch, 94. Goose, Wild, 94. gouldi, Circus, 49. Gracupica tertia, 15. Grallaria aripoensis, 15. —-~ guatimalensis, 13. reculus, 13. grallaria, Speotyto, 48. Grammatoptila austeni, 82. grandis, Stizorhina, 32, 108. Grebe, Black-necked, 93. , Great Crested, 96. —-, Red-necked, 93. Greenfinch, 94. Grus antigone, 24. sharpei, 25. guatimalensis, Grallaria, 13. Gull, Mediterranean Black-headed, 96. , Yellow-legged Herring-, 96. gutturalis, Anthus, 105. Gygis candida, 61. Gymnophaps albertisi, 103, 106. hematodus, Trichoglossus, 15, Hematopus capensis, 39. meade-waldoi, 33, 34. 120 Hematopus niger, 33, 34. Halcyon vagans, 48. Harelda glacialis, 7. harterti, Acanthopneuste, 36, 82. , Stoparola, 2. hebridensis, Turdus, 113, 114. helenz, Laniarius, 85, Hemixus flavala, 82. hemprichi, Larus, 25. hendersoni, Vini, 60, 77. Hen-Harrier, 95. Heron, 96. Heterhyphantes golandi, 32. nigricollis, 84. reichenowi, 32. Heteromirafra, 114. ruddi, 114. Heteronyx, 114. Hirundo daurica, 83. rustica, 20. striolata, 83. hodgsoni, Cyornis, 83. holochlorus, Erythrocereus, 22. Hooded-Crow, 4. Hoopoe, 92. House-Martin, 92. House-Sparrow, 94. humeralis, Myiospiza, 39. Hyphantornis dimidiatus, 84. xanthops, 83, 84. Hyphanturgus oeularis, 84. hypodila, Anthothreptes, 84. Tanthocincla austeni, 82. incanus, Totanus, 61. inepta, Megacrex, 103. inornatus, Caprimulgus, 108. insularis, Ptilopus, 77. ——, Strix, 31. , Lyto, 38. intermedia, Paradigalla, 104, 105. , Stizorhina, 107, 108. islandica, Clangula, 18, 19, 28, 29. ispida, Alcedo, 62. Jackdaw, 94. jacksoni, Calamocichla, 3. Jay, Common, 94. joretiana, Pucrasia, 7. Kestrel, 95. , Lesser, 92. khasiana, Actinodura, 82. Kingfisher, 95. Kite, Black, 92. klaasi, Chrvsococcyx, 84. klossi, Rallicula, 104. kuhli, Vini, 60. Lagopus scoticus, 41. Laniarius barbarus, 85. helenz, 85. ° —— mufumbiri, 85. —— nigricauda, 32. quadricolor, 32. Lanius senator, 106. Lark, Calandra, 95. , Crested, 95. ——-, Short-toed, 93. , Sky-, 95. Larus affinis, 68. antelius, 69. — britannicus, 68. fuscus, 69. hemprichi, 25, marinus, 21. ridibundus, 50. layardi, Pycnonotus, 84. Lesser Kestrel, 92. leucocapillus, Anous, 61. Leucopsar, 4. rothsehildi, 4. leucoptera, Poliospiza, 17. leucopygius, Poliospiza, 70. leucorrhoa, Oceanodroma, 39. linearis, Geotrygon, 13. Loboparadisea sericea, 104. lodoisige, Synoicus, 45. Long-tailed Tit, Turkish, 95. longicauda, Elminia, 84. longicaudata, Urocichla, 83. Loria lorie, 104. loriz, Loria, 104. Loxia curvirostra, 20. ludovicianus, Caprimulgus, 108. lugubris, Mellopitta, 104. Lusciniola pryeri, 11, 12, 13. sinensis, 11. luteiventris, Tribura, 82. Lymnocorax niger, 61. Lyrurus britannicus, 54, derbianus, 91. -—— mongolicus, ?L. tetrix, 39 54, 91. Machetes pugnax, 50, macrocephala, Muscitrea, 47. macrodipterus, Macrodipteryx, 76, Macrodipteryx macrodipterus, 76. Macronyx aurantiigula, 32. maculata, Tyto, 38, inada, Prioniturus, 15. 121 [ Vol. xxxi. Magpie, 94. major, Tribura, 82. mandellii, Tribura, 82. manimbe, Myiospiza, 39. Mareca penelope X Nettion crecca, 74. marginata, Zoothera, 82. marinus, Larus, 21. Marsh- Harrier, 95. Marsh-Tit, 95. Martin, House-, 92. martini, Campophaga, 18. maxima, Merula, 80. meade-waldoi, Hematopus, 33, 3+. Meadow-Bunting, 94. meeki, Parotia, 104. Megacrex inepta, 103. Megadyptes antipodum, 50. megala, Gallinago, 10. melanicterus, Rubigula, 82. melanogaster, Otis, 83, 84. melanoleucus, Campephilus, 47. melanonota, Cossypha, 84. melanura, Anthornis, 47. Melizophilus undatus, 62. Melopitta lugubris rostrata, 104. Melopsittacus undulatus, 20, 21. menachensis, Poliospiza, 90. , Turdus, 86. Merganser, Red-breasted, 93, Merlin, 93. Merula maxima, 80, merula, Turdus, 20. milanjensis, Turdus, 56. Milvus milvus, 24. minor, Garrulus, 107. , Sitta, ‘78. mitchelli; Trichoglossus, 15, modularis, Accentor, 64. mollissima, Oreocincla, 79, 80, 81. mongolicus, Lyrurus, 91. monorthonyx, Anurophasis, 103, monticola, Stigmatops, 5. , Zoothera, 82. montifringilla, Fringilla, 28. Moorhen, 96. Motacilla citreoloides, 75. mufumbiri, Laniarius, 85. multistriata, Charmosynopsis, 104. murrayi, Porzana, 61, 77. Muscicapa striata, 47. Muscitreea macrocephala, 47. musicus, Turdus, 20, 68, 118. Myiospiza humeralis, 39. manimbe, 39. mystacea, Prinia, 85, 84. natalensis, Cossypha, 83, 84. nebularius, Totanus, 28. Vol. xxxi. | Nettion crecea, 21. niger, Heematopus, 35, 34. , Lymnocorax, 61. Night-Heron, 96. nigricauda, Laniarius, 32. nigricollis, Heterhyphantes, 84. Nigrita schistacea, 84. nigrogularis, Trichoglossus, 63. Ninox novee-zealandiz, 48. nove-hollandix, Trichoglossus, 51. novee-zealandiz, Ninox, 48. Numida meleagris X Gallus gallus, 54. x Pavo cristatus, 54. Nutcracker, 94. Nuthatch, 95. Nyroca peposaca X Aix sponsa, 53. —- X Anas platyrhyncha, 53. — — x N. ferina, 54. — x N. fuligula, 54, ——. ———. & _N. rufina, 53. — x Sarcidiornis melanotus, 53 “rufina x N. ferina, 54. obiensis, Stoparola, 2. Oceanodroma leucorrhoa, 39. ocularis, Accentor, 88. , Hyphanturgus, 84, Cinanthe botte, 87. cenanthe, 111. cnanthe, Saxicola, 62. (énanthe yemenensis, 87. omissa, Houdia, 26. Oreocincla dixoni, 81. mollissima, 79, 80, 80. whiteheadi, 79. Oreosterops pinale, 5. ornata, Cissa, 52. Ptilotis, 68. orpheus, Pachycephala, 46. ostrinus, Pyrenestes, 84. Otis melanogaster, 83, 84. Owl, Brown, 95. ——, Little, 95. ——,, Short-eared, 93, Pachycephala orpheus, 46. pacificus, Cypselus, 57. Paleornis torquatus, 48. pallasi, Phasianus, 91. pallidigula, Bleda, 84. pallidipes, Cyornis, 83. panayensis, Stoparola, 2, 3. Paradigalla brevicauda, 106. carunculata, 105. intermedia, 104, 105. Paradisea apoda, 63. 2 paradoxus, Syrrhaptes, 91. Parisoma buryi, 87. Parotia carole meeki, 104. Partridge, Grey, 96. Passer diffusus, 84. patagonica, Aptenodytes, 50. pavonina, Balearica, 83, 8+. Peewit, 96. Pelican, 96. pelios, Turdus, 84. pella, Topaza, 39. pelzelni, Sitagra, 84. penelope, Anas, 49. percivali, Rhynchostruthus, 112. peregrinator, Falco, 8. Peregrine, 96. peregrinus, Falco, 62. Phasianus chonensis, 16, 27. colchicus, 40, 45. elegans, 16. pallasi, 91. strauchi, 16. stiehshanensis, 16. torquatus, 45. —— versicolor, 45. ° pheenicea, Campophaga, 84. Phyllergates batjanensis, 2. dumasi, 2. everetti, 2. Pigeon, Wood-, 94. pinale, Oreosterops, 5. Pintail, 94. piscator, Sula, 61. Platycercus elegans, 48. eximius X Barnardius semi- torquatus, 51. x P. elegans, 51. ———— in aveOlUStOll: —— X Psephotus hxematonotus, 51. platyrhyneha, Anas, 51. Platystira cyanea, 84. Plover, Little Ringed, 92. Pochard, 93. poliopse, Edoliisoma, 105. Poliospiza elgonensis, 17, 18. leucoptera, 17. leucopygius, 90. menachensis, 90. reichardi, 18, 90. tristriata, 17. Polytelis alexandres X P. barrabandi, 52 barrabandi X P. melanura, 52. Porzana murrayi, 61, 77. tabuensis, 61. prasina, Erythrura, 46. Prinia blanfordi, 111. extensicauda, 111. inornata burmanica, 111. _Prinia inornata formosa, 111. —— mystacea, 83, 84. Prion ariel, 50. Prioniturus mada, 15. Procelsterna czerulea, 61. pryeri, Lusciniola, 11, 12, 13. Psephotus blaauwi, 56. chrysopterygius, 55, 56. chrysotis X P. multicolor, 52. cucullatus, 55, 56. dissimilis, 55, 56. Pseudacanthis, 88. yemenensis, 88, 89. Pseudominla cinerea, 83. psittacea, Erythrura, 46. Ptilopus, chalcurus, 61, 77. -—— coralensis, 61, 77. insularis, 77. zonurus, 63. Ptilotis ornata, 68. tailemi, 68. — underbooli, 68. wesleydalei, 68. Puerasia darwini, 7. joretiana, 7. pugnax, Machetes, 50. punctatissima, Strix, 37. pusilla, Sitta, 78. Pycnonotus layardi, 84. Pyrenestes ostrinus, 54. quadricolor, Laniarius, 32. Querquedula crecca, 38. quiscalina, Campophaga, 18. Rallicula forbesi, 104. klossi, 104. Rallus aquaticus, 50. Raven, 94. Redbreast, 92. Redstart, Black, 92. Reed-Bunting, 94. regulorum, Balearica, 24. regulus, Grallaria, 13. yeichardi, Poliospiza, 18, 90. reichenowi, Burnesia, 84. , Heterhyphantes, 32. Rhamphocorys clot-bey, 106. Rhipidura rufofrontata, 47. Rhynchostruthus percivali, 112. socotrana, 113. yemenensis, 112. richardi, Anthus, 82. ridibundus, Larus, 50. rikeri, Berlepschia, 39. Rook, 93. roraime, Chlorophonia, 39. 123 [Vol. xxxi. rostrata, Mellopitta, 104. rothschildi, Leucopsar, 4. rubecula, Hrithacus, 62. Rubigula melanicterus, 82. rubra, Foudia, 27. ruddi, Heteromirafra, 114, rufigenis, Staphidia, 83. rufofrontata, Rhipidura, 47. rufula, Chelidon rufula, 107. rufulus, Anthus, 82. rustica, Hirundo, 20. rusticola, Scolopax, 50. sakaiorum, Abrornis, 27. Sandpiper, Common, 92. Saxicola cenanthe, 62. schistaeca, Nigrita, 84. schceenobzenus, Acrocephalus, 47. sehwaneri, Abrornis, 28. scintillatus, Chalcopsittacus, 63. Scolecophagus carolinus, 46. Scolopax rusticola, 50. scoticus, Lagopus, 41. semilarvata, Eos, 15. senator, Lanius, 106. sericea, Loboparadisea, 104. Serinus sharpei, 84. severus, Falco, 8. sharpei, Grus, 25. , Serinus, 84. Shelduck, 93. Shrike, Great Grey, 93. sinensis, Lusciniola, 11. Siskin, 93. Sitagra pelzelni, 84. Sitta minor, 78. pusilla, 78. Sky-Lark, 95. smaragdulus, Topaza, 39, Snipe, 93. socotranus, Rhynchostruthus, 113. somereni, Cossypha, 3. Song-Thrush, 93. Sparrow-Hawk, 95. Sparrow, House-, 94, , Tree-, 94. Spatula clypeata, 50. Speotyto cunicularia, 48. grallaria, 48. Spizixus canifrons, 82. splendidissima, Astrapia, 104. sponsa, Aix, 51. Staphidia rufigenis, 83. Starling, Common, 93. , Sardinian, 93. stentoreus, Acrocephalus, 47. stepheni, Vini, 77. Sterna fluviatilis, 112, Vol. xxxi.] Stigmatops deningeri, 6. monticola, 3. Stizorhina grandis, 32, 108. vulpina, 107, 108. Stonechat, European, 92. Stoparola harterti, 2. obiensis, 2. panayensis, 2, 3. Stork, 92. strauchi, Phasianus, 16. streperus, Acrocephalus, 63. striata, Muscicapa, 47. striolata, Hirundo, 8&3. striolatus, Anthus, 82. Strix insularis, 37. punctatissima, 37. Sturnus vulgaris, 64. subalpina, Sylvia, 47. siiehshanensis, Phasianus, 16. Sula piscator, 61. Suya atrigularis, 109. crinigera, 109, 110. cooki, 109. yunnanensis, 110. Swallow, 92. Swan, Wild, 96. swynnertoni, Turdus, 56. sylvia, Cisticola, 84. Sylvia communis, 62. subalpina, 47. Synoicus lodoisiz, 45. Syrrhaptes paradoxus, 91. tabuensis, Porzana, 61. tailemi, Ptilotis, 68. taiti, Acrocephalus, 58, 77. tangorum, Acrocephalus, 10. Terpsiphone emini, 84. tertia, Gracupica, 15. tetrix, Lyrurus, 39, 54, 91. Thrush, Song-, 93. Tit, Blue, 98. -———, Great, 95. —, Marsh-, 95. , Sombre, 93. Topaza pella, 39. smaragdulus, 39. torquatus, Palzeornis, 48. , Phasianus, 45. Totanus incanus, 61. nebularius, 28. Tree-Creeper, 95. Tree-Sparrow, 94. Tribura luteiventris, 82. major, 82. mandellii, 82. Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, 51. intermedia, 107-108. 124 Trichoglossus hrematodus, 15. mitchelli, 15. ; nigrogularis, 63. — nove-hollandia, 51. trigonostigma, Diceum, 82. trinitatis, Geotrygon, 13. tristis, Acridotheres, 46. tristriata, Poliospiza, 17. Trochalopterum bakeri, 82. chrysopterum, 82. trochiloides, Acanthopneuste, 386, 82. Trypanocorax frugilegus, 76. Tufted Duck, 94. Turdus atrigularis, 87. cabanisi, 56. deningeri, 4. hebridensis, 113, 114. menachensis, 86. merula, 20, —— milanjensis, 56. — musicus, 2), 63, 113. hebridensis, 113, 114. pelios, 84. swynnertoni, 66. Tyto alba, 38. detorta, 38. — insularis, 38. maculata, 38. umbrovirens, Cryptolopha, 90. undatus, Melizophilus, 62. underbooli, Ptilotis, 68. undulatus, Melopsittacus, 20, 21. Ureginthus cyanocephalus, 82. urbica, Chelidon, 64. Urocichla longicaudata, 83. utakwensis, Edoliisoma, 105. yagans, Halcyon, 48. vaughani, Acrocephalus, 59. versicolor, Phasianus, 45. Vini australis, 60. hendersoni, 60, 77. kuhli, 60. stepheni, 77. virens, Andropadus, 84. vordermanni, Abrornis, 27. vulgaris, Sturnus, 64. vulpina, Stizorhina, 107-108. Wagtail, Grey, 95. , White, 92. Warbler, Willow-, 92. x T. chlorolepidotus, 51. wesleydalei, Ptilotis, 68. Wheatear, 92. whitakeri, Garrulus, 106, 107. whiteheadi, Oreocincla, 79. Wigeon, 94. x Teal, 74. wilhelmine, Aprosmictus, 104. Willow-Warbler, 92. wollastoni, Anthus, 105. Woodpecker, Greater Spotted, 95. , Grecian Spotted, 95. ——, Green, 95. , Lesser Spotted, 95. Wood-Pigeon, 94. Wren, 95. 5 [ Vol. xxxi. Xanthomelas ardens, 104. xanthops, Hyphantornis, 83, 84. Yellow Hammer, 94. yemeneusis, Cryptolopha, 90. , Gnanthe, 87. ——, Pseudacanthis, 88, 89. , Rhynchostruthus, 112. yessoénsis, Emberiza, 74, 75. yunnanensis, Suya, 110. zedlitzi, Hrythrospiza, 106. zonurus, Ptilopus, 63. Zoothera marginata, 82. monticola, 82. Printed by Taytor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Leo ae Reh ey BULLETIN BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. CLUB. EDITED BY W. RK. OGILVIE-GRANT, : VOU EE” XOCKE 95 REPORT ON THE IMMIGRATIONS OF SUMMER RESIDENTS IN THE SPRING OF 1912: ALSO NOYES ON THE MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS AND RECORDS RECEIVED FROM LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHT-VESSELS DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1911. ye BY . THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. : } LONDON; 13 WITHERBY & CO., 326 HIGH HOLBORN, | a y ‘ — V SEPTEMBER 19138. 221079 BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH = ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. EDITED BY W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT. VOLUME XXXII. KEPORT ON THE IMMIGRATIONS OF SUMMER eo SED ENS EN ED SPRING OF (G12: ALSO NOTES ON THE MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS AND RECORDS RECEIVED FROM LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHT-VESSELS DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1911. BY THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BRITISH ~ ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. LONDON: WITHERBY & CO., 326 HIGH HOLBORN. 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Tas Report, which deals with the autumn-migration of 1911 and the spring-migration of 1912, has been drawn up on the same lines as those previously issued. The number of records supplied by our observers again shows a gratifying increase, and to these have been added many others which had appeared in different publications up to the time these pages were revised. The secticns dealing with the records from the light-stations reund our coasts will be found somewhat less voluminous than in previous years, and this is chiefly accounted for by the fact that in both seasons under consideration the weather, on the whole, was favourable to the birds during their passage- movements, and consequently unfavourable for making observations at light-stations. During the period of the spring-migration, the weather over the area defined in the Report (p. 13), with the exception of a few days, was favourable to migration. During March it was exceptionally mild, and though fre- quently stormy, the winds were mostly from the south-west and seldom of sufficient force to hinder movement, while in April and May it was generally favourable. Consequently, B 10 migration began early (on the 6th of March) and individuals of many species arrived in various parts of the country on unusually early dates. With the continuance of favourable conditions, the stream of migrants was almost uninter- rupted and the period over which it lasted was proportionally curtailed. From the 6th to the 24th of March the migration consisted mostly of stragglers, and included only nine species ; but on the 25th our summer-birds began to arrive in force, and from that date till the 3rd of April considerable numbers were arriving daily. The main movement seems to have begun on the 5th of April and to have lasted with but slight fluctua- tions until the 22nd, the period of greatest activity being between the 17th and 22nd. No fewer than twenty-one species were recorded as having arrived on our coasts on the 20th. A second and less considerable movement took place between the 25th of April and the 1st of May, and the third, a larger one, between the 3rd and 15th of May: thereafter, the number of species arriving dwindled rapidly, and after the 20th migration was apparently confined to small parties of stragglers and finally ceased during the first week in June. The migrations of the Wheatear (two races) which lasted from the 6th of March to the 15th of May and of the House- Martin from the 25th of March to the 29th of May, covered the longest periods among the species recorded ; while those of the Wood-Warbler (from the 18th of April to the 12th of May) and the Reed-Warbler (from the 19th of April to the 13th of May) occupied the shortest time. The following is a list of the species showing the routes by which they appear to have reached this country ; in a few instances where the evidence was incomplete, the species have been placed in that section which the data seemed to indicate (e. g. Grasshopper-Warbler); the others, which are somewhat doubtfully placed, must be read in conjunction with their corresponding footnotes :— JEJE A. Species arriving solely on the western half of the south coast. Ring-Ouzel*, Grasshopper- Warbler, Pied Flycatcher*, Land-Rail *. B. Species arriving along the whole of the south coast, but first and chiefly on its western half. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, White Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper *. C. Species arriving along the whole of the south coast, but first and chiefly on its eastern half. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden-Warbler, Wood-War- bler, Reed-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Nightjar. D. Species arriving along the south-east coast, from Suffolk to Hampshire. Nightingale ft, Tree-Pipit{, Red-backed Shrike, Wry- neck, Turtle- Dove. During the early months of 1912, considerable movements due to weather-influences were recorded, chiefly on the part of ‘‘ Thrushes,” Starlings, Larks, Waders, and Wildfowl, and these will be found briefly recorded in their appropriate sections. Amongst them attention may be drawn to the remarkable irruption of the Little Auk. With regard to the autumn-migration of 1911, there is nothing to which attention need be specially drawn. The weather during the early autumn was unusually warm and fine, and singularly devoid of influences tending to hold up the stream of departing migrants. Consequently, observa- tions were difficult to make aud our summer-birds seem, for * Arrivals on the eastern half of the south coast were probably those of passage-migrants only. | The later immigrants probably landed as far west as the east of Devon. B2 12 the most part, to have slipped away in small parties, mostly unobserved, so that our records during that period are neither so complete nor so detailed as we could have wished. During the latter part of 1912 Mr. J. L. Bonhote, one of the original members of the Committee, having taken up work abroad, found it necessary to resign his post, and Mr. M. Vaughan took his place on the Committee. It is with much regret that we lose the help of our colleague, who during the earlier years of our work filled the onerous post of secretary, and it was largely owing to his powers of organisation that our scheme was succes sane started. The immense amount of time and labour that he devoted to it can only be fully appreciated by those actually engaged in the work. Our best thanks are again due to the Master and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House for the continuance of their permission to enlist the services of the light-keepers, and to the latter as well as to our many inland observers, without whose kindly co-operation our enquiry could not be carried on. F. G. Penrose, Cha‘rman. W. R. Ogitviz-Grant, Editor. C. B. RIcKkEttT. W. L. Sciater. C. B. Ticenursr. N. F. Trcenurst, Secretary. M. VAUGHAN. 13 WEATHER-REPORT FOR THE PERIOD COVERED BY THE SPRING-IMMIGRATION OF 1912. THE weather-reports are abstracted from the weekly returns of the Meteorological Office, and include the conditions prevailing between Parallels of Latitude 40° N. and 60° N. Longitude 10° E. and 10° W. Special attention has been paid to the conditions observed over the north coast of Spain, the Bay of Biscay, the coast of France bounding the Bay, the English Channel, and our southern shores. Opposite the date will be found a record of the height of the barometer, the direction and force of the wind, the temperature and weather-conditions prevailing at 7.0 A.M. on each day at Portland Bill. The weather-conditions will be much more readily under- stood if the meteorological maps are themselves consulted. 39 Summary of the Weather-Conditions. Manrcu.—On the whole the weather was wild, wet, and stormy through- out the month, but it was exceptionally mild, owing to a preponderance of south-westerly winds. Fog was less prevalent than usual, but there was a good deal along the coasts on the 11th, 12th, and 14th, and also on the 24th and 25th. Aprit.— Weather beautiful, but with a good deal of fog along the north coast of Spain. Masy.—The weather was less fine and bright than in April, but the conditions were anticyclonic, with few gales. Marcu dth Marcu 6th Marcu 7th Marcu 8th Marcu 9th 14 Daily details of Weather- Conditions with the corresponding Arrivals of the Summer-Residents *. Bar. 29°31 in. Wind W., strong. Weather, overcast. A deep depression that had appeared over Ireland on the 4th moved slowly across the North Sea and became less deep, while some small secondary dis- turbances passed across our Islands. A strong gale along our S. coasts from the W. or S.W. Thunder- storms at Valencia and in Brittany. Temp. just below 50° F. B. Wheatear. Bar. 29°46 in. Wind W., moderate. Weather, fair. Pressure increased briskly over these Islands during the day, and the wind veered towards N.W. and increased somewhat in force; a little rain in some parts of our Islands with as much as ‘8 inch at Jersey ; also much rain over France. Temp. about 45° F, A. Ring-Ouzel. Bar. 29°91 in. Wind N.W., moderate. Weather, fair. Pressure gave way decidedly over the W. of these Islands during the day and the winds were from the S. Some rain. Temp. rose to about 50° F. Bar. 29°74 in. Wind S., moderate. Rain. Depression moved N. along our extreme W. coasts. Rain over Brittany and these Islands. Moderate or strong winds from the 8. Temp. about 50? F. Bar. 29°66 in. Wind 8.S.W., moderate. Weather, fine. Our area under the influence of a large depression in the Atlantic to the S.W.of Ireland. Rain over our Islands and the N. and W. of France and in the Spanish Peninsula. Winds from 8. Temp. about 50° F, * The species are arranged in accordance with the grouping in the Introduction. Marcu 10th .. Marcu llth .. a \| Marcu 12th .. Marcu 18th .. Marcu |4th , Marcu ldth .. Marcu 16th ,, 15 B. Wheatear, Willow- Warbler. Bar. 29°65 in. Wind E.S.E., light. Weather, fine. General conditions much the same, with 8. winds. Warm and rainy, much fog and mist along the coasts of these Islands and the Bay of Biscay. B. Wheatear. Bar. 29°91 in. Wind N.E., almost calm. Weather, dull. The Azorean-Madeiran anticyclonic system extended towards the Bay of Biscay and our S.W. coasts during the day, but with a shallow depression at the mouth of the English Channel. Winds slight from some 8. or S.E. point, with rain. Temp. about 50° F. Fog along our S. coasts. B. Wheatear. Bar. 30°30 in. Calm. Weather, misty. Little change during the day. Winds light, some rain with fog along our S. coasts. Max. Temp. about 50° I. Bar. 60°17 in. Wind 8.W., moderate. Weather, drizzling. Conditions remaining much the same. Warm, rainy, fogey along the shores of the English Channel, but clear along the N. coast of Spain. B. Chiffchaff. Bar. 30:07 in. Wind W.S.W., light. Weather, | misty. Conditions much the same, but foggy at Cape Finis- terre. Bar. 29:76 in, Wind W., moderate. Weather, rainy. A large V-shaped depression moved E. over these Islands accompanied by showers of rain or hail. Max. Temp. generally rather below 50° F. No fog reported. B. Wheatear, Chiffchaff. C. Yellow Wagtail. Bar. 29:92 in. Wind W.S.W. Weather, fair. Marcu 16th .. (con.). Marcy 17th .. Marcu 18th , Marcu 19th .. Marcu 20th ,, Marcu 21st ge 16 Pressure fell during the day in Ireland and in S.W. of England. Moderate or strong winds from S. or S.W. Rain generally, with fog at Oporto and along W. coast of Ireland. Max. Temp. about 50° F. B. Chiffchaff. D, Wryneck. Bar. 29°38 in. Wind S.W., strong. Rainy. Barometer fell, due to extension of large depression on the Atlantic with winds of increasing force from some 8. point. Still rainy with warm Temp. No fog reported, except along the W. coast of Den- mark, B. Sand-Martin. Bar. 28:84 in. Wind 8.E,, strong, Rainy. A small depression travelled HE. across the S. of England during the day. A gale from the W. along the coasts of Cornwall. Much rain. Max. Temp. did not reach 50° F. Fog in the 8.1. area of England. Woheatear. Bar. 29:15 in, Wind W., strong. Weather, fair. Conditions still cyclonic, strong winds from the W. Much rain, but no fog reported. Temp. did not reach 50° F. D. Wryneck. Bar. 29°45 in. Wind W., light. Weather, cloudy. Weather very unsettled. Thunderstorms with rain and hail at the south-western stations, due to a small secondary disturbance. Strong winds from the W, B. Swallow. Bar. 29:06 in. Wind S.W., strong. Rainy. Deep depression with centre 28°7 in. to the W. of Ireland. Strong winds circulating cyclonically round this centre. Weather, very unsettled, rainy, squally. Some fog on S. side of the Channel and also at Cape Finisterre. Thunderstorm at the Scilly Isles. Temp. under 50° F. Marcu 22nd . Marcu 28rd .. Marcu 24th .. Marcu 25th .. Marcu 26th .. iL 7 Bar. 29:22 in. Wind W., strong. Weather, stormy. The depression moved E. and the wind veered towards N.W. on our W. coast, with a gale at the Scilly Isles. Thunderstorms in 8. England, also at Biarritz. Squalls of rain or hail over the greater part of our area. Some fog on the W. coast of Ireland. Rain along the N. coast of Spain. Temp. about the same. Bar. 29°74 in. Wind W.S.W., light. Weather, dull. A fresh depression approaching W. of Ireland from the Atlantic. Much rain over our area, Wind moderate or strong from §8.W. or W.S.W. Temp. remaining about the same. No fog. B. Blackcap, Swallow. Bar. 29°66 in. Wind W., moderate. Weather, rainy or misty. Barometer rising. Winds for the most part W. over the Bay of Biscay, Channel, and S. England; but H. over Scotland. Much mist and fog along the W. and 8. coasts of these Islands. Temp. warmer, over 50° F’. on both sides of the Channel. Weather, fine along the N. coast of Spain. A, Ring-Ouzel. B. White Wagtail, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand- Martin. D. Wryneck. Bar. 30:06 in. Wind W.S.W., moderate. Weather, thick. Wind 8.W., with fog or mist along the N. coast of Spain, Brittany, and on our W. and S. coasts. Temp. rose during the day. Weather, showery. A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Wheatear, Blackeap, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Cuckoo. Bar. 30°25 in. Wind 8.8.W., light. Cloudy. Barometer had risen generally. Conditions becoming anticyclonic over our area. Winds moderate from S.5.W., but E. along the coast of Brittany. Weather, fine along the Spanish coast, but cloudy or overcast in the Channel and along our shores, Temp, rather warmer, Marcu 27th . Marcu 28th .. Marcu 29th .. Marcu 30th .. Marcu 81st .. 18 B. Wheatear, Redstart, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin. Bar. 80°20 in. Wind W., light. Weather, cloudy. A depression in the North Sea causing high wind from the W. over our area. Weather, rainy. Winds from some 8.W. point. Fog at Ushant and along the E. shores of the North Sea. B. Wheatear, Chiffchaff, Cuckoo. Bar. 30°15 in. Wind W.S.W., moderate. Weather, overcast. An anticyclone was approaching the mouth of the Channel. Winds moderate or strong from some W. point. Weather, showery, with fog in the W. half of the Channel and also along the W. coast of Denmark and at Cape Finisterre. Some rain. Temp. still about 50° F. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, White Wag- tail, Swallow, House-Martin, Common Sandpiper. Bar. 30°33 in. Wind N.W., moderate. Weather, fine. Conditions anticyclonic over a great part of our area. Weather, showery. Winds from some W. or N.W. point, moderate or strong over a great part of our area. Conditions ever the Bay of Biscay and Channel mostly fair. B. Wheatear, Blackcap, Swallow. C. Yellow Wagtail. Bar. 30°16 in. Wind W., moderate. Weather, un- settled. The Barometrical conditions were apparently under the influence of a low-pressure system in the far north. Winds from some W. point, moderate or strong. Weather, very unsettled with hail, sleet, and snow- showers over these Islands. Temp. much lower. The conditions, however, over the Bay of Biscay and adjacent shores generally fair, and subject to the high-pressure system which had extended E. Some fog at Biarritz, A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Common Sandpiper. Bar. 29:30 in. Wind S,W., moderate. Weather, cloudy. Marcu 81st .. (con.). APRIL Ist .... APRIL 2nd.... APRIL Ord... APRIL 4th .... 19 A depression moved S.E. over our W. districts, in- creased in intensity and caused a gale from the N.E. and N. on the N. and W. coasts of our Islands, with haii, sleet, and snow in many localities. Much colder. A thunderstorm at Spurn Head. B. Wheatear, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin. C. Yellow Wagtail. D. Wryneck. Bar. 29°65 in. Wind N.N.E., strong. Weather, unsettled. An anticyclone in the Atlantic affecting weather over our area. Winds strong from some N. quarter. Weather, showery generally, but fine over the greater part of the Bay of Biscay, the W. half of the Channel, S. Ireland, and St. George’s Channel. Temp. about 45° F. A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Wheatear, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, White Wagtail, Swallow, Sand-Martin. D. Wryneck. Bar. 30°38 in. Wind N.W., moderate. Weather, fine. The anticyclone had reached S. England. Winds over our area N.W. Temp., cold. Weather, fine. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow - Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, House- Martin, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo. Bar. 30°47 in. Calm. Weather, cloudy or misty. The anticyclone with centre 30°6 in. in Bay of Biscay. Light airs from the W. in the Channel, from the E. along the N. coast of Spain. Weather-conditions calm with much fog in the Channel and along our W. shores. Temp. under 50° F. B. Blackcap. Bar. 30°49 in. Wind W.N.W., light. Weather, fair. Barometer steady. Winds W. over our Islands, moderate. Weather, cloudy and overcast. Nain Ha 55. APRIL 6th . Aram fad oo gc APRIL 8th .... 20 B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, White Wagtail, Swallow, Sand-Martin. D. Wryneck. Bar. 32:27 in. Wind W.S.W., moderate. Cloudy. Conditions remaining much the same over our area. Some fog at the Scilly Isles and along the W. coast of Ireland. A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Redstart, Blackcap, Chiftchaff, Swallow, House- Martin, Common Sandpiper. Bar. 30:28 in. Wind W.S,W., moderate. Weather, cloudy. A good deal of fog along the N. coast of Spain, the French shores of the Channel and Bay of Biscay, and our S. coast. Temp. warmer, exceeding 50° F. everywhere. Weather, fine. B. Whitethroat, Chiffchatf, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Common Sandpiper. C. Sedge- Warbler. D. Tree-Pipit, Wryneck. Bar. 30°34 in. Wind W.N.W.,, light, Weather fair. Barometer falling slightly. Much fog and mist along the shores of the Bay and Channel. No rain in England, but rain in Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark. Weather-conditions fine on the N. coast of Spain, in the Bay of Biscay, the Channel, and in England. A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Blackcap, Chiff- chaff, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Common Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Nightjar. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 29°96 in. Wind W.S.W., moderate. Weather, cloudy. The Bay of Biscay, the Channel, and S. England still under the influence of the anticyclone, with moderate W. winds and fog at Cape Finisterre. There was a deep depression with centre 29-0 in. over the N. of Scotland, with rain and stormy weather over Ireland, Scotland, and N. England. PIA, QIN 5.4 9 Aprit 10th APRIL 11th APRIL 12th Apri 138th 20 A. Ring-Ouzel. B. Wheatear, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge- Warbler, Yellow Waetail. - D. Turtle-Dove. Bar. 29°87 in. Wind N.W., moderate. Weather, fair. Winds strong from the N.W. over the greater part of our Islands, with rain, hail, or sleet; but the weather fine, though cold generally, along the S. coasts. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Chiftchaff, White Wactail, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. C. Yellow Wagtail. Bar. 29:74 in. Wind W.N.W., moderate. Weather, - cloudy. Weather over these Islands showery, except along our S. shores. Fog on the W. coast of Ireland and at Cape Finisterre. Temp. under 50° F. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand- - Martin. Bar, 29°99 in. Wind N.W., light. Weather, cloudy. Winds mostly from N. over our area. Weather, cold. Some fog at Cape Finisterre, weather fine along our S. shores. . ‘A. Grasshopper- Warbler. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo. C. Garden-Warbler. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 30°39 in. Wind N.N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Conditions anticyclonic. Winds from some N. or E. point. Weather, fair generally. A. Ring-Ouzel, Land-Rail. B, Wheatear, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin. ApRIL 13th (con.). Aprit 14th Apri 15th APRIL 16th Aprit 17th 22 C. Garden-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wag- tail. Bar. 30°49 in. Wind N.N.E., light. Weather, fair. The centre of the anticyclone 80°5 in. to the S. of Ireland. Conditions generally fine. Much warmer along the N. coast of Spain. A. Grasshopper- Warbler. B. Wheatear, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo. C. Garden- Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale, Wryneck, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°44 in. Wind N,, light. Weather, fair. Weather-conditions, light N. breezes with fine calm weather over our Islands, the Channel, and Bay of Biscay. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, White Wagtail, Swallow, House-Martin. C. Lesser Whitethroat. Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wag- tail. D. Nightingale, Wryneck. Bar. 30°38 in, Wind N.N.E., light. Weather, fair. Weather-conditions remaining unchanged generally, but some mist along both shores of the W. half of the Channel. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale. Bar. 80°30 in. Wind E.N.E., ight. Weather, fine. Conditions fine generally over our area with light KK. breezes. Some mist along the EK. half of the shores of the Channel. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wag- tail. D. Nightingale, Wryneck. Bar. 30°04 in. Wind N.E. Weather, fair. Weather-conditions fair generally, rather colder, es- pecially during the eclipse of the sun. Temp. only 45° F. at Corunna, where there was some fog. a Apri 18th Apri 19th APRIL 20th IAG Ria Stee APRIL 22nd 23 B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Blackcap, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden-Warbler, Wood- Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit, Red-backed Shrike, Turtle- Dove. Bar. 29:94 in. Calm. Weather, fine, Weather fine generally, with some mist over Brittany. Temp. still for the most part under 50° F’. A. Ring-Ouzel, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Wood-Warbler, Reed- Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 29:99 in. Calm. Weather, fine. Conditions generally remaining the same, Still, calm weather, with fog at Cape Finisterre and Cher- bourg, but fine along our 8. shores. A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Pied Flycatcher. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. C. Wood-Warbler, Reed-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit, Wryneck, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 80°15 in. Wind E., light. Weather, fine. Weather-conditions fine generally, but rain along the W. coast of Ireland and Scotland. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Whitethroat, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Cuckoo, Common Sand- piper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden- Warbler, Reed- Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit. Bar. 30:29 in. Wind E., light. Weather, fine. The fine weather-conditions continuing generally, some fog along the shores of the Bay of Biscay. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Blackcap, Willow-Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Cuckoo. C. Wood-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Nightjar. APRIL 22nd , (con.), APRIL 23rd Apri 24th Aprin 25th APRIL 26th Aprit 27th 24 D. Nightingale, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°32 in. Wind N.E., light. Weather, fine. Calm still weather, with fog along our S. coast and also along the N. coast of Spain. B. Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow-Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow. C. Wood- Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. Bar. 30°35 in. Wind N.E., light. Weather, fine. Fine conditions with light EK. breezes continuing generally. Temp. 55° F. in the Channel, but only 40° F, along the W. coast of the North Sea. Bb. Willow-Warbler, Swallow, Common Sandpiper, C. Yellow Wagtail. D. Red-backed Shrike. Bar. 30°27 in. Wind N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Fine weather with light N. breezes over the whole of our area, A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Land-Rail. B. Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Com- mon Sandpiper. C. Garden-Warbler, Yellow Wavtail. Bar. 50:18 in. Wind N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Same conditions as previous day. Some fog at Cape Finisterre. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Willow-Warbler, White Waetail, Swallow, House-Martin, Swift. C. Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale. Bar, 30°01 in. Wind N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Same conditions as previous day. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Whitethroat, Blackeap, Willow-Warbler, White Wagtail, Swal- low, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit. Bar. 29°78 in. Wind N.E., moderate. Weather, fair. APRIL 27th (con.) APRIL 28th Apri 29th Aprit 30th May Ist 25 Conditions over our Islands fine generally and much warmer along our 8. coast; EH. coast of England still cold. Heavy rain over the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, with fog at Cape Finisterre. A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Blackcap, Willow-Warbler, White Wagtail, Swallow, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. C. Wood-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Nightingale. Bar. 29°87 in. Wind E.N.E., moderate. Weather, fair. Weather-conditions fine generally, but some fog over Brittany. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Whitethroat, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge- Warbler. D. Nightingale, Red-backed Shrike. . Bar. 50°08 in. Wind N.N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Weather fine, with a cold N. breeze over the whole of our area. Some fog at Cape Finisterre. PAG andolail: B. Chiftchaff, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. D. Tree-Pipit, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°30 in. Wind H.N.E., moderate. Weather, fine. Light N. winds over the whole of our area, the weather remaining fine over the greater part, but showery along the EK. coast of England and the E. half of the Channel. ; A. Grasshopper- Warbler. B. Wheatear, White Wagtail, Swallow, House- Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift. C. Reed-Warbler, Nightjar. D, Tree-Pipit. Bar. 30:29 in. Wind N.W., light. Weather, fair. Barometrical conditions still anticyclonic. Winds moderate from the 8. over our Islands. Weather, fine generally, but showery in the Channel and over Ireland and Scotland. Temp. just under 50° F, Some fog or mist at Cape Vinisterre and on both shores of W. half of the Channel. Cc May 2nd May 38rd May 4th May Sth or oe 26 B. Whitethroat, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand- Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. C. Yellow Wagtail. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 80:13 in. Wind N.N.W., light. Weather, fine. Conditions remaining the same. Fine weather along .N. of Spain. Some fog along the shores of Brittany. Fine along both shores of the Channel, but showery over Ireland, St. George’s Channel, the N. of England, and the North Sea. Temp., warm. A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Land-Rail. B. Redstart, Whitethroat, Blackeap, White Wagtail, Swallow, House- Martin, Sand- Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Wood-Warbler, Nightjar. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit. Bar. 30°04 in. Wind N.W., light. Weather, mild; some mist. Same conditions prevailing as on previous day. A. Pied Flycatcher. B. Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Common Sand- piper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden-Warbler, Wood- Warbler. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 29°97 in, Calm. Weather, still and misty. Misty showery weather generally over our area. Winds very light from the E. Thundery along the E. coast of England, with fog about the Straits of Dover. . A. Grasshopper- Warbler. B. Whinchat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden-Warbler, Wood- Warbler, Reed- Warbler, Sedge- Warbler. D. Tree-Pipit, Red-backed Shrike, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 29°97 in. Wind E., light. Weather, overcast. Barometer falling. Winds E. over the greater part of England and the EK. half of the Channel, but W. over the Bay of Biscay and W. half of the Channel. Weather mild, overcast and showery. May 6th May 7th ‘May 8th May 9th Ar | A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow-Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, Com- mon Sandpiper. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge-Warbler, Nightjar. D. Red-backed Shrike, ‘Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30:05 in. Wind W.N.W., light. Weather, misty and showery. Barometer falling over the W. of our Islands, due to a depression in the Atlantic. Weather, overcast and rainy, with fog along the W. coast of ireland and along both sides of the Channel. A. Pied Flycatcher. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow-Warbler, White Wagtail, Swal- low, House-Martin, Swift. C. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden- Warbler, Wood- Warbler, Reed- Warbler, Sedye-Warbler. D. Nightingale, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°13 in. Wind 5.S.W., light. Weather, misty. Misty, rainy, warm, close weather, with light S. winds. A. Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow-War- bler, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Sand-Martin, Common Sandpiper. C. Garden-Warbler, Reed-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Nightjar. D. Nightingale, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°34 in. Wind W.S.W., light. Dull, fogey weather. Conditions similar to previous day, with more fog, A. Pied Flycatcher, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whinchat, Whitethroat, Swallow, House-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. C. Reed-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Nightjar. D. Tree-Pipit, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°36 in. Calm. Weather, foggy. Weather remaining warm, fogey, sultry. c2 May 10th May 11th May 12th May 13th ... May ace 28 B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Willow-Warbler, Spotted , Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Swift, Cuckoo. ©. Lesser Whitethroat, Garden- Warbler, Sedge- Warbler, Yellow Wagtail. D. Turtle-Dove. Bar. 80:16 in. Wind S.E., light. Weather, calm, foggy. Sultry, forey weather still continuing. A. Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Swal- low, House-Martin. ©. Garden-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler. D. Nightingale, Tree-Pipit, Red-backed Shrike. Bar. 29°88 in. Wind S.W., ight. Weather, foggy. Barometer: a well-marked shallow depression over our Islands. Winds 8S. Weather, sultry, showery with fog over Brittany, but fine along N. coast of Spain. Temp., warm. A. Pied Flycatcher, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Willow-Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, C. Garden-Warbler, Wood-Warbler, Sedge- Warbler, Nightjar. D, Tree-Pipit. Bar. 29°76 in. Wind W.N.W., light. Weather, overcast. Barometer: a shallow secondary depression over the Channel. Thunderstorms in our §.E. counties. Weather, very warm for the time of year. A, Land-Rail. B. Wheatear, Redstart, Whitethroat, Swallow, Cuckoo, C. Garden-Warbler, Reed-Warbler, Sedge- Warbler. Bar. 30°12 in. Wind N.E., light. Weather, cloudy. Barometer: anticyclonic over our Islands, with centre 30°2 in. over Ireland. Windslight. Weather, fair on the whole. Slightly colder. B. Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin, Swift. D. Red-backed Shrike, Turtle-Dove. Bar. 29:99 in. Wind E.N.E. Weather, fine. Barometer: a shallow depression over the Bay of Biscay with showery weather over our area generally. MiAwve lotlierere May 16th .. May 7th .... May 18th .... Wa DESH Be 29 A. Grasshopper- Warbler, Land-Rail. : B. Wheatear, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow- Warbler, Swallow, Hotise-Martin. C. Garden-Warbler, Sedge-Warbler, Nightjar. D. Turtle-Dove. Bar. 29°57 in. Wind E.N.E., light. Weather, cloudy. Barometer: a depression over our Islands. Weather, rainy, with moderate W. winds. No fog. B. Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House-Martin. C. Nightjar. Bar. 29°71 in. Wind W.N.W., moderate. Weather, showery. Barometer: the centre of depression passing on to the North Sea. Weather, rainy over our area; fine along the N. coast of Spain, the French shores of the Bay of Biscay, and both sides of the W. end of the Channel. B. Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow. Bar. 30°09 in. Wind W.N.W., moderate. Weather, fair. Barometer rising over our Islands, Winds strong from the W. Fair generally, but showery over Treland, the N. of Scotland, and the W. half of the Channel. B. Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, House - Martin, Cuckoo. C. Nightjar. Bar. 30°04 in. Wind W., light. Weather, fair. Weather fair generally over our area, but showery between Cornwall and the 8. of Ireland and along W. coast of Ireland and N. coast of Scotland. Some rain at the Scilly Isles, A. Pied Flycatcher. B. Swallow, Swift. D. Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°05 in. Wind 8.8.E., light. Weather, misty. The depression to the W. of Ireland caused some rain over Iveland and Scotland. Weather generally fair with light winds. Some fog on our 8. coast and also along the shores of Holland. Temp. warm. Some fog off Cape Finisterre. May 20th . May 21st MAy 22nd .... WSs BRI Gee e May 24th .... Wise Pisin sooc May 26th 3... May 27th . 30 B. Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, House-Martin. I). Turtle-Dove. Bar. 29°80 in. Wind S.W., moderate. Weather, cloudy. Weather, dull or showery all over our Islands, but fine over the Bay of Biseay and the French coast of the Channel. B. Swallow, House-Martin, Swift. Bar. 29°79 in, Wind K., light. Weather, rainy. Warm, cloudy and rainy weather all over our area, with some fog along the coast of Brittany. Bar. 29°61 in. Wind 8.W., moderate. Weather, showery. A depression over the S. of our Islands, with rainy, warm, mugey weather. Bar. 29°65 in. Wind W.S.W., light. Weather, fair. The depression had passed E. with a general clearing up of the weather over the Channel, S.W. England, and Ireland. Weather showery elsewhere. B. House-Martin, Swift. Bar. 30°11 in. Wind N., moderate. Weather, fine. Light N. winds and fine weather over the greater part of our area. Rather colder. B. Spotted Flycateher, Sand-Martin, Swift. D. Tree-Pipit. Bar. 30°35 in. Wind E.N.E., light. Weather, fine. Conditions over our area anticyclonic. Weather, very fine. Some mist at Cape Finisterre. B. Swift. C. Nightjar. D. Turtle-Dove. Bar. 30°25 in. Calm. Weather, fine. Fine bright weather over our area. D. Red-backed Shrike. Bar. 30:13 in. Wind N.W., light. Weather, fine. Anticyclonic conditions with fine weather generally over our area. Some mist over Cape Finisterre. | May 28th .... May 29th .. May 30th .... May 31st JUNE Ist...... JuNE 2nd .... ol B. House-Martin. C. Nightjar. Bar. 3002 in. Wind N.W., light. Weather, fine. Fine weather with calms over our area generally, some mist along the N. coast of Ireland. Showery in the North Sea between Denmark and England. B. House-Martin. Bar. 29°97 in. Calm. Weather, fair. Warm close weather, fine generally, but with some fog along the coast of Brittany. Bar. 29°85 in. Wind N.N.W., light. Weather, fine. Barometrical conditions: scattered small depressions bringing W. winds and showery weather over the greater part of our area. Temp. continuing about 55° F, Some fog along the N. coast of Spain. Bar. 29°83 in. Wind 8.E., light. Weather, showery. Our area under the influence of a depression with centre over the Scilly Isles. Winds circulating cyclonically round this centre, but the weather on the whole remaining fair, but with rain along our S.W. and E, coasts. B. Spotted Flycatcher. Bar. 29°70 in. Wind E.8.E., light. Weather, fine. Rain generally over our area, but fine over Brittany and the Scilly Isles. The Barometrical depression had passed E., the centre being over the Channel Islands. Temp., lower along the N. coast of Spain than in the Channel. A. Pied Flycatcher. Bar. 29°45in. Wind S.8.W., light. Weather, cloudy. The centre of the Barometrical depression was over the S. of England, with winds of moderate intensity circulating cyclonically. Temp. rather colder, Weather, rainy, some fog along the W. coast of Denmark. 32 Nore.—In the maps which illustrate the migrations of the following species an attempt has been made to trace their course by separating and grouping the different move- ments, but it must be understood that this grouping is to a certain extent artificial and is only done for the sake of clearness. ‘These successive immigrations are indicated in the maps by the following signs :— First immigration thus :— Second be $3 6) Third 55 a Fourth , 4 €> Fifth 7 (29) Sixth 5 ie THE RING-OUZEL. Turdus torquatus, L. So far as can be ascertained from the somewhat scanty material supplied, our British-breeding Ring-Ouzels appear to have arrived entirely on the western half of the south coast, the few records from south-eastern and eastern counties probably indicating the northward progress of small numbers of passage-migrants bound for breeding-places in northern continental Hurope. Stragglers made their appearance at the end of the first week in March, but it was not until the last week of that month that the main body of our breeding-birds began to arrive. By the Ist of April an augmentation was evident, and the majority of our summer-visitors would seem to have arrived between the 1st and the Ldth. They were reported as already nesting in Devonshire on the 12th and as having settled down in Cheshire and Carnarvon by the 15th and 17th, while nests containing eggs were found in Renfrew on the 24th, in Lancashire on the 25th, and in Cheshire on the dth of May. Nests with young birds were found in Radnor on the 5th of May, in Yorkshire on the 12th, and in Mon- mouth on the 19th. After our breeding-birds had settled down, further arrivals, comprised no doubt of passage-migrants, made their appear- ance; thus, Ring-Ouzels occurred at Hanois light (Guernsey) on the 18th/19th of April, and others were recorded from Suffolk on the 19th, from the Isle of Man on the 21st and 28th, and from the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) as late as the 16th of May. (CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. March 6th. Staffordshire. me 7th. Kent, Yorkshire. March 25th. PP) bP) 2nd. 5th. 6th. 8th. 9th. 10th. 12th/13th. 12th. 13th. 14th. 15th. 16th. 17th. 18th/19th. 19th. 21st. 24th. 25th. 26th. 28th. Ist. 4th. 5th. 12th. 16th. 19th. 34 Somerset. Devon, Westmoreland. Carnarvon. Derby. Worcester. Somerset, Cheshire. Carnarvon (increase). Devon (passing). Merioneth, Lancashire, Staffordshire. Hants (passing). Yorkshire (slight in- crease). Gloucester. Devon (increase). Hants and Northumber- land (passing). Hssex. Shropshire. Carnarvon light. Devon (nesting). Somerset (slight increase). Lancashire (slight increase). Cheshire (settled in the east of the county). Yorkshire (slight increase). Carnarvon (usual numbers). Guernsey light. Suffolk (passing). Cumberland. Isle of Man (passing). Renfrew (nest with eggs). -Monmouth. Lancashire (nest with eggs). Shropshire (usual numbers). Isle of Man (passing). Radnor. Montgomery. Radnor (increase). Radnor (young hatching). Cheshire (nest with eggs). Morkehinel (young fully fledged). Pentland Skerries (one passing). Monmouth (nest with oan Cumber- land (nest with eges THE WHEATEAR. Savicola enanthe (L.). Tue Wheatear arrived along the whole of the south coast, but in greatest numbers on the western half. A single bird was reported as having been seen on the Sussex Downs on the 6th of January and several were noted on the S.E. coast of Suffolk on the 28th of February, but it was not until the end of the first week in March that others were observed, and from that date until the 25th stragglers were recorded from many counties, chiefly in the west, as far north as North- umberland, where a male was seen on the 15th. The first large immigratory movement took place between the 26th and 30th of March, the area of arrival covering the whole of the south coast from Devonshire to Kent. The advent of these migrants was at once apparent by the increased number of arrivals recorded in the western Midlands and Wales on the one hand and in the Home counties and Hast Anglia on the other. The northward passage on the east coast was also indicated by the returns from light-stations on the Norfolk and Yorkshire coasts on the 29th and 31st. On the west side the Isle of Man was reached on the 30th, Lanark on the 1st of April, and Argyll on the 4th. A second, smaller, immigration occurred between the 2nd and 5th of April, and indications of the northward passage of these birds was also furnished from the lights on the east coast on the 5th and on the west coast on the 8th, but otherwise their influence on the numbers already present does not appear to have been very marked. The third immigration, a large one, seems to have supplied 30. WIITEATEAR. oO ENGLAND asp WALES Mch=March, M= May Dates without initial are in April a7 the bulk of the nesting-birds for the northern counties, but it also contained a number of passage-migrants, as was shown by the presence for the tirst time of birds of the larger race. Commencing on the 8th of April it seems to have lasted until the 18th or 20th, as was indicated by the records from Hanois light (Guernsey) and corroborated by the subsequent occurrences at lights off the Welsh and Yorkshire coasts, though our observers on the south coast did not record any arrivals between the 16th and 21st. The fourth and fifth immigrations were small ones and occurred on the 22nd of April and between the 26th and the Ist of May, but with the exception of the arrival of small numbers in Kent on the 28th, the area of arrival was con- fined to the western end of the south coast. The sixth immigration was again a large one and occurred between the 6th and 15th of May ; during the first few days it comprised birds of both races, but the greater number of birds were of the larger race. The passage through the Channel Islands was most marked and arrivals took place along the whole of the south coast. The inland records were somewhat meagre, owing, no doubt, to the number of birds already settled in the country and the inability of many observers to distinguish one race from the other. The light- records, however, particularly those from. the west coast, furnish evidence of the northward passage of these migrants, and those from the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) between the 10th and the 16th of May also seem to be connected with this movement. Wheatears were reported to be nesting in Sussex on the 11th of April, a nest ready for eggs was found in Northum- berland on the 24th, and another half constructed in Renfrew on the 4th of May. \HRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REcoRDs. Jan. 6th. Sussex. Feb. 28th. Suffolk. March 6th. Somerset, Oxford. March 10th. 99 9 11th. 12th. 15th. 16th. 19th. 24th. 2 ule 26th. Qi: 28th. 29th. 30th. 31st. Ist. 2nd. 3rd. 3rd/4th. Ath. 5th. 6th. 7th. 7th/8th. Sth. 38 Sussex, Suffolk. Pembroke light. Devon, Staffordshire. Northumberland. Scilly Isles, Sussex, Berks, Lancashire, Yorkshire. Cornwall, Hants. Cheshire. Yorkshire light. Northampton. Sussex (increase). Kent, Herts, Glamor- gan, Radnor. Somerset (increase). Hants and Kent (slight increase). Surrey, Brecknock. Sussex (increase). Wilts. Norfolk light. Kent (increase). Hants (slight increase). Sussex (decrease). Berks, Warwick, Derby. Kent and Suffolk (increase). Herts and Devon(passing). Worcester, Isle of Man. Yorkshirelight. Middlesex, Essex, Bedford. Carnarvon (great increase). Glamorgan (increase). Lanark. Kent and Lancashire (increase). Corn- wall, Gloucester. Sussex (increase). Denbigh. Anglesey light. Argyll. Yorkshire light. Sussex and Wilts (in- crease). Berks and Radnor (passing). Shropshire (usual numbers). Derby (increase). Carmarthen, Merioneth, Westmoreland, Ayr. Cheshire. Anglesey light. Suffolk and Staffordshire (increase). Derby (usual numbers). Lincoln, Cum- berland. 8th to12th. Devon (passing). Avail Sida 9 ”) 9 99 39 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 29 10th. illo 12th. 12th/13th. 13th. 13th/14th. 14th. 14th/15th. 15th. 15th/16th. L5th to 21st. 16th. 16th/17th. 17th. 17th/18th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 20th/21st. 21st. 21st/22nd. 22nd. 23rd. 24th. 39 Hants (larger race, first record). Pembroke. Brecknock and Yorkshire (increase). Kent, Gloucester and Northumberland (slight increase). Somerset (increase). Isle of Man and Northumberland (slight increase). Wilts (decrease). Sussex (nesting). Yorkshire (increase). Cornwall and Carnarvon lights. Lancashire (increase). Brecknock and Yorkshire (decrease). Hants, Carnarvon and Yorks lights. Cheshire (increase). Northampton (slight increase). Cornwall, Carnarvon and Anglesey lights. Cornwall and Dorset (increase). Warwick (passing). Guernsey light. Cheshire (great increase). Surrey (passing). Renfrew. Guernsey light. Renfrew (increase). Gloucester (females arriving ). Anglesey light. Westmoreland (slight increase). North- umberland (usual numbers). Middlesex (passing). Bedford (slight increase). Ayr. Carnarvon and Yorkshire lights. Yorkshire (increase). Herts (passing). Leicester, Norfolk. Carnarvon light. Cornwall and Somerset (increase). Angle- sey. Yorkshire (decrease). Montgomery. Denbigh (increase). | Northumberland (nest ready for eggs). 40 April 26th&27th. Devon (passing on the south coast). 99 28th. 29th. 29th to Denbigh (de- Radnor (slight increase). crease). Kent (passing). Dorset (increase). Cumberland (slight increase). May 5th. ha Merioneth (passing). 30th. ets 2nd. ard. 4th. 4th/5th. 5th/6th. 6th to 12th. 6th/7th. 7th/sth. 9th. 10th/11th. 10th. lath 11th/12th. 12th. 12th/13 sth, 14th. 14th/15th. Hilo 16th. 20th/21st. Yorkshire (slight increase). Cumberland (nesting). Devon (passing). Isle of Man (increase). Bedford (slight increase). Yorkshire (decrease). Staffordshire (passing). Radnor (increase). Renfrew (nest half built). Isle of Man light. Guernsey, Hants, Carnarvon, Lancashire and Isle of Man lights. Kent (passing, larger race). } Guernsey and Hants lights. Merioneth and Isle of Man (increase). Isle of Man light. Devon and Somerset (passing). Anglesey (usual numbers). Pentland Skerries » (arrivals). Yorkshire (slight increase). Pentland Skerries (increase, larger race). Guernsey light. Glamorgan (increase). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Cheshire (nesting). Guernsey light. Pentland Skerries (increase, both races). Guernsey and Anglesey lights. Pentland Skerries (further increase). Gloucester (passing). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Isle of Man light. 4] THE WHINCHAT. Pratincola rubetra (L.). Tuts bird appears to have arrived along the whole of the south coast, but perhaps in largest numbers on the western half ; its actual area of entry was, however, so incompletely recorded that the point must remain a doubtful one. The first arrival reported was in Devonshire on the 8th of April, and from that date up to the 18th the records were mostly of single birds, in widely scattered localities. The first small increase was apparent on the 20th of April and seems to have consisted mainly of migrants bound for the western half of the country. A rather larger immigration took place between the 27th and 29th, the area of arrival probably extending from Devonshire to Hampshire. These birds seem also to have distributed themselves mainly over the western half of the kingdom. | A third immigration arrived on the south coast from Devonshire to Sussex between the 5th and 9th of May, and besides supplying residents for the eastern and northern counties, seems to have included a certain number of passage-migrants. Whinchats were nesting in Devonshire on the 2nd of May, and in Staffordshire on the 9th. Nests with eggs were found in Northamptonshire on the 12th, in Cambridge on the 13th, in Glamorgan on the 16th, and in Derbyshire on the 18th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REecorRDSs. April 8th. Devon. iter Berks. 99 Db 2th. 13th. 14th. 15th. 16th. 18th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 26th. 27th. 28th. 29th. sce 2nd. 3rd. Ath. 5th. 6th. 6th/7th. 7th. Oth. 10th. 11th. 12th. 13th. 14th. Leicester. Yorkshire. Worcester. Surrey. Carmarthen. Kent. Somerset, Brecknock, Bedford, Suffolk. Wilts. Shropshire. Yorkshire (slight increase). Gloucester, Cambridge, Cumberland. Lanark. Hants, Radnor, Cheshire. Glamorgan, Northumberland, Renfrew. Glamorgan (increase). Dorset (a few). Merioneth, Staffordshire, Derby. Monmouth, Middlesex. Bedford (increase). Merioneth (slight increase). Devon (nesting). Derby (slight increase). Yorkshire (increase). Lancashire. Somerset (increase). | Northumberland (slight increase). Warwick. Derby (increase). Somerset (decrease). Northampton. Hants light. Cumberland (slight increase). Herts. Staffordshire (nesting). Sussex, Westmore- land. Merioneth (increase). Radnor (slight increase). Herts (slight increase). Anglesey, Oxford, Rentrew, Pentland Skerries. Northampton (nest with eggs). Nor- folk. Cambridge (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (decrease). 16th. 17th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 29th. 43 Glamorgan (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (passing). Cumberland (increase), Yorkshire (increase). Derby (nest with eggs). Yorkshire (decrease), (building). Lancashire (usual numbers). Yorkshire (increase). 44 REDSTART. | IE NGLAN om Hy Pee, E arp WALES Engush Miles. 10 2 4 Mch=March. M= May Dates without initial are in April THE REDSTART. Ruticilla phenicurus (L.). Tux Redstart entered the country along the whole of the south coast, but was perhaps more numerous on the western half. A few birds were reported as passing in Devonshire as early as the 27th of March, and stragelers were noted in Surrey, Gloucestershire, and Derbyshire by the 6th of April. There does not seem to have been any marked immigration, and the birds apparently arrived in small numbers at different points over a large area and extended their migration over a considerable length of time. Small numbers seem to have come in during the second week of April and rather larger flocks between the 16th and 22nd and again on the 27th, so that by the end of the month Redstarts were thinly spread over the whole country, reaching Yorkshire and Cumberland by the 20th, Northumberland on the 23rd, and Renfrew on the 2nd of May. Further arrivals took place during the first week of May, being recorded from St. Catherine’s light (Hants) on the 3rd,and Hanois light (Guernsey) on the 6th/7th, but beyond increasing the numbers in a few localities no very marked effect was observed. On the 12th/13th small numbers again occurred at St. Catherine’s light, and an increase was noted in Kent on the 20th, possibly indicating another small immigration. There are indications in the records trom Spurn Head light (Yorkshire) on the 8th/9th of May, from the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) on the. 11th, and from Southwold light (Suffolk) on the 15th/16th of northward passage-movements along the east coast. 46 Nests in course of construction were found in Shropshire on the 26th of April, in Radnor on the 6th of May, and in Suffolk on the 8th, while nests with eggs were found in Somerset on the 4th of May, in Yorkshire and Westmoreland on the 12th, and in Northumberland on the 13th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDs. March 27th. Devon. April 6th. Surrey, Gloucester, Derby. ie 8th. Devon. os 2th: Hants. * Sid, Surrey. ae 14th. Herts, Leicester, Shropshire. x 16th. Surrey (increase). 5 17th. Somerset. . 18th. Surrey (increase). Kent, Lancashire. i 19th. Sussex, Wilts. is 20th. Surrey (decrease). Brecknock, Bedford, Worcester, Yorkshire, Cumberland. AS 2i'st: Dorset, Northampton, Suffolk. E 22nd. Hants (passing). Radnor, Warwick, Northumberland. Pm 23rd. Cumberland (increase). Westmoreland. . 26th. Shropshire (nesting). Cheshire. i 27th. Hants (passing). Oxford. s; 28th. Warwick (slight increase). Hssex, Cam- bridge. a3 29th. Cumberland (increase). Monmouth, Staf- fordshire. i 30th. Warwick (decrease). May Ist. Cambridge (increase). ip 2nd. Renfrew. a drd. Hants light, Northumberland (increase). Merioneth. Hee 4th. Radnorand Yorkshire (increase). Somerset (nest with eggs). * 5th. Northumberland (increase). Bedford (slight increase). May 99 9 39 ,, 12th/13th. bb) 99 39 39 99 99 6th. 6th/7th. 8th. 8th/9th. 9th. SEG Io 12th. 13th. 16th. 15th/16th. 19th. 20th. 27th, 47 Northampton and Cumberland (increase). Shropshire (usual numbers). Radnor (nesting). Guernsey light. Suffolk (nesting). Yorkshire light. Berks. Merioneth (increase). Anglesey, Pentland Skerries. Yorkshire (increase), (nest with eggs), Pentland Skerries (decrease). Loch Lomond. Hants light. Lancashire (nesting). Northumberland (nest with egg). Somerset (nest with young). Suffolk light. Cambridge (nest with full clutch). Kent (increase). Berks (increase). (op) I oe -— : \\= = — ENGLAND M= May Dates without initial are in April 49 THE NIGHTINGALE. Daulias luscinia (L.). Tus species arrived on the south-eastern and southern coasts of England, possibly extending as far west as Dorset. The first reports were from Northamptonshire and Sussex on the 8th and 14th of April, and small numbers seem to have straggled into the country between the latter date and the 18th. It was not until the 20th that any marked influx took place, and during that and the two following days a considerable number arrived on the coast between Essex and Hampshire. The advent of these migrants was at once apparent by the increase in numbers in the southern and eastern counties and an extension westward inio Wiltshire, Dorset, Devonshire, Somerset, Gloucester, Monmouth, Worcester and Shropshire. From the 26th to the 29th a second immigration took place over the same area, the records indicating a similar spread to the west and north-west, the first arrival in Yorkshire being recorded on the 29th. By that date the greater number of our Nightingales seem to have arrived ; by the Ath of May they had begun to nest and the normal number had settled down in several localities. Small numbers of migrants, however, continued to arrive till the end of the second week of May, viz.: on the 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 11th, but their effect on the numbers already present was not appreciable. Nightingales were nesting in Suffolk on the Ist of May, in Hampshire on the 5th, in Somerset on the 8th, in Cambridge on the 9th, and in Berkshire on the 13th; while nests with eggs were found in Essex on the 10th, in Oxford on the 19th, D0 and in Lincoln on the 25th. Young were hatched in Dorset on the 26th of May and fledged in Glamorgan on the 2nd of June. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. April) 8th. a 14th. a 15th. a 16th. : 17th. a3 18th. 53 19th. i 20th: a; 21st. 22nd. a 25th. “ 26th. -, 27th. es 28th. Ms 29th. May Ist. aN 2nd. 55 3rd. . Ath. - 5th. oy Guay Cela 2 7th. , 7th/8th. Northampton. Sussex. Somerset, Surrey. Hants, Oxford. Isle of Wight, Essex, Cambridge. Kent, Suffolk. Berks, Glamorgan. Kent (increase). Surrey and Northampton (slightinerease). Herts, Norfolk, Shrop- shire. Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Berks, Somerset and Essex (increase). Dorset, Monmouth. Kent, Somerset, Northampton and Shrop- shire (increase), Sussex and Suffolk (slight increase). Gloucester, Wor- cester. Cambridge (slight increase). Devon. Isle of Wight (increase). Bedford. Hants (increase). Worcester (slight in- crease). Middlesex. Dorset (increase). Essex and Suffolk (increase). Berks and Shropshire (usual numbers). York- shire. Cambridge (increase). Suffolk (nesting). Herts (increase). Leicester. Hants and Sussex (increase). Oxford (slight increase). Worcester (usual numbers). Bedford (increase). Hants (nesting). Hants light. Lincoln. Hants light. June 8th. 9th. 10th. ILA, 13th. che 19th. 25th. 26th. 2nd. dL Glamorgan (slight increase). Somerset (nest half built). Cambridge (nesting). Essex (nest with one egg). Dorset and Sussex (increase). Wilts (increase). Berks (nesting). Cheshire. Oxford (nest with eggs). Lincoln (nest with eggs). Dorset (nest with young). Glamorgan (young fledged). 52 WHITETHROAT. 50 ENGLAND ann WALES Oo 0 =—380 40 Geographical, Mies 40 40 «50 20 M= May Dates without initial are in April THE WHITETHROAT. Sylvia cinerea, Bache WuHitETHROATS arrived along the whole of the south coast, but first and principally on the western portion. Stragelers were noted in Devonshire and Kent as early as the 27th and 29th of March, but up to the 18th of April the records were mostly of single birds, in widely scattered localities. To a large extent they were derived from a small immigration that landed on the western end of the south coast between the 7th and 12th. The second immigration, which was a large one, arrived in two divisions ; the western portion landed between Cornwall and Hampshire on the 19th and 20th, and the eastern portion landed in Sussex and Kent on the 21st and 23rd. This, together with another large immigration that arrived along the whole of the south coast between the 25th and 29th, seems to have furnished the greater portion of the breeding- stock of Whitethroats in England and Wales. Northumber- land was reached by the 22nd, Cumberland and Renfrew on the 24th and Stirling on the Ist of May, while the species was stated to be present in its normal numbers in the southern counties and to be already nesting by the beginning of May. Migration, however, continued to be actively in progress until the fourth week of May, and birds were passing the Channel Islands up to the L5th. From the 2nd to the 13th arrivals were taking place daily at one or more points on the south coast, and the northward passage of these migrants is well shown by the numerous records from the light-stations on both the east and west coasts, as well as by the fluctuating numbers reported from inland localities. Many of these birds appear to have settled down in Wales, o4 the northern midlands and the northern counties, as well as in Scotland : the usual number was not recorded in Shrop- shire and Derbyshire until the 6th, or from Cheshire and Renfrew until the 13th. Others seem to have been passage- migrants on their way to more northern localities, as was indicated by the records from the Pentland Skerries between the 8th and 17th. Whitethroats were building in Surrey on the 21st of April, in Devonshire on the 24th, and in Yorkshire on the 29th, on which date finished nests were found in Kent and Shrop- shire. A nest with two eggs was reported in Somerset on the 2nd of May, one with a single egg in Westmoreland on the 6th of May, and others with four eggs in Warwick on the 15th and in Glamorgan and Gloucester on the 16th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. March 27th. Devon. - 29th. Kent. April ard. Surrey. . 5th. Kent, Cheshire. . 6th. Gloucester, Yorkshire. x (th. Cornwall (passing). Ms 10th. Dorset. 33 ithe Dorset (increase). Devon (slight in- crease). 12th. Cornwall (passing). Sussex, Suffolk. as 13th. Somerset, Wilts. nf 14th. Leicester. 15th. Derby. 16th. Berks. vs IN Essex, Northampton, Merioneth, Isle of Man. i) 18th. Shropshire. M, 19th. Somerset (increase). Hants, Herts, Notts. »» 1L9th/20th. Cornwall light. BS 20th. Somerset and Surrey (increase). Nor- thampton (great increase). Wilts (slight increase). Bedford, Worcester, Lincoln. April Zils. 22nd. 29th. Ath/dth. 5th. ay) Kent, Surrey and Yorkshire (increase). Herts (slight increase). Surrey (build- ing). Glamorgan, Warwick, Stafford- shire, Norfolk, Lancashire. Glamorgan (increase). Shropshire and Derby (slight increase). Hereford, Cambridge, Northumberland. Sussex and Leicester (slight increase). Devon (nesting). Brecknock, Cumber- land, Renfrew. Gloucester and Warwick (increase). Isle of Wight, Radnor. Isle of Wight, Somerset and Berks (in- crease). Oxford, Middlesex. Essex, Somerset, Worcester and Yorkshire (increase). Carmarthen, Cardigan. Middlesex, Radnor and Yorkshire (in- crease). Shropshire (great increase). Denbigh. Dorset, Kent, Oxford, Radnor, Stafford- shire and Cheshire (increase). Somerset (usual numbers). Kent and Shropshire (nests). Yorkshire (nesting). Cambridge, Radnor and Cheshire (in- crease). Berks (usual numbers). Herts and Derby (increase). Radnor (decrease), (nest). Stirling. Hssex and Leicester (increase). Hants (slight increase). Somerset (nest with eggs). Westmoreland. Wilts and Oxford (increase). Wilts and Radnor (increase). Lancashire (slight increase). Kent (nest with eggs). Bucks. Guernsey and Severn Estuary lights. Essex, Wilts, Bucks and Leicester (in- crease). Hssex and Herts (nests). May 99 33 9 dth/6th. 6th. 6th/7th. 7th. 7th/8th. 8th. 8th/9th. Oth. 9th/10th. 10th. 11th. 11th/12th. 12th. 12th/13th. 13th. 13th/14th. 14th/15th. 15th. 15th/16th. 56 Guernsey, Hants, Carnarvon, Lancashire . and Yorkshire lights. Hants, Sussex, Essex, Wilts and Cumber- land (increase). Shropshire and Derby (usual numbers). Staffordshire (nesting). Westmoreland (nest with egg). Guernsey, Hants and Yorkshire lights. Hssex and Lincoln (increase). Hssex (nest with ege). Pentland Skerries. Hants and Isle of Man lights. Hants, Essex, Norfolk and Lincoln (in- crease). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Yorkshire light. Wilts, Glamorgan, Hssex, Cambridge, Norfolk, Cheshire and Lancashire (in- crease). Suffolk (slight increase). Kent light. Sussex, Hssex, Glamorgan, Lancashire and Renfrew (increase). Cambridge (de- crease). Sussex (nest). Essex, Staffordshire, Cheshire and_Nor- thumberland (increase). Merioneth and Pentland Skerries (slight increase). Ayr, Lanark. Hants and Yorkshire lights. Hssex (increase). Pentland Skerries (de- crease). Cambridge (usual numbers). Lancashire (nesting). Guernsey and Hants lights. Cheshire and Renfrew (usual numbers). Hants (nest with young). Yorkshire light. Guernsey and Yorkshire lights. Warwick (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (increase). Yorkshire light. May 99 39 99 16th. {7th. 18th. 19th. 19th/20th. 20th. od Glamorgan and Gloucester (nest with eggs). Berks (nesting). Pentland Skerries (de- crease). Oxford (young hatched). Dorset (nesting). Lancashire light. Derby (nest with eggs), Bo LESSER WHITETHROAT. ee Aw .-: sve Bey 8 <2 TE = Bs gist THE LESSER WHITETHROAT. Sylvia curruca (L.). Tus bird appears to have arrived along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on the eastern half. The first arrivals reported were in Berkshire on the 8th of April and in Cornwall on the 9th. Between the 13th and the 19th there seems to have been a straggling immigration of small numbers along the whole of the south coast and a second small influx on the 21st and 22nd; the effect of these was to produce a thin and scattered distribution over the ereater part of the bird’s range. A third and somewhat larger immigration occurred on the 27th and 29th at both the eastern and western extremities of the south coast, which reinforced the numbers already present and filled up some of the gaps in the distribution of the species. There seems to have been a fourth arrival in the west during the first day or two of May, which augmented the numbers both in the western counties and in south Wales. After the 3rd the majority of the birds had evidently settled down and nesting soon became general. Migration on the eastern side of the country, however, continued actively up to the middle of the month, arrivals taking place in Kent on the 4th, 6th and 10th, and in Hamp- shire on the 7th. These birds seem to have been mainly passage-migrants on their way to more northern breeding- haunts. Nests with eggs were found in Surrey on the 4th of May, in Shropshire on the 5th, in Kent on the 6th, and in Derby and Yorkshire on the 13th and 15th, a %) vrs 29 ” 99 60 ‘HRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. 8th. 9th. 13th. 15th. 16th. yA oy 18th. 19th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 24th. Boule 26th. Dit. 28th. 29th. 30th. List: 3rd. Ath. 5th. 6th. 6th/7th. Berks. Cornwall. Somerset. Surrey. Surrey (slight increase). Surrey (decrease). Kent. Devon, Dorset, Herts. Sussex, Gloucester. Leicester. Berks (increase). Hants, Wilts. Somerset (slight increase). Cambridge, Yorkshire. Worcester. Denbigh. Gloucester (increase). Middlesex. Oxford, Shropshire, Cheshire. Somerset (increase). Hssex, Warwick, Derby. Shropshire (increase). Cheshire (slight increase). Glamorgan, Brecknock, Norfolk. Dorset (increase). Kent (slight increase). Northampton, Radnor, Staffordshire. Cheshire (increase). Herts (increase). Warwick (slight in- crease). Westmoreland. Glamorgan and Oxford (increase), Wor- cester (usual numbers). Essex (increase). Surrey (nest with eggs). Middlesex (slight increase). Shropshire (nest with eggs). Bucks. Kent, Essex, Somerset, Gloucester and. Shropshire (increase). Kent (nest witn eggs). Yorkshire light. 99 9th. 9th/10th. 10th. 11th. 12th. 13th. 14th. leyelie 20th. 61 Hants (increase). Cambridge (slight in- crease). Lincoln, Cumberland, Pentland Skerries. Lancashire. Kent light. Wilts (mest with eggs). Pentland Sker- ries (decrease). Pentland Skerries (increase). Hants and Hssex (nests with eggs). Anglesey. Pentland Skerries (decrease). Somerset, Radnor and Lincoln (nests with eggs). Shropshire (increase). Derby (nest with egos). Northumberland, Yorkshire (nest with eggs). Merioneth (nesting). BLACKCAP. Mch=March. M= May in April Dates without initial are 63 THE BLACKCAP. Sylvia atricapilla (L.). Tue Blackeap entered the country along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on the western half. A male seen in Somerset on the 14th and 15th of January, and killed by a cat three days later, had doubtless remained in the locality from the previous autumn. During the fourth week in March stragglers began to make their appearance in the southern counties, and from that date up to the 2nd of April single birds or small aumbers were recorded in Cornwall, Devonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Somerset and Gloucester. Between the 3rd and the 9th small immigrations occurred, chiefly in the west, which served to extend the bird’s range somewhat further north; but with the exception of an early straggler which reached Renfrew on the 5th, none seem to have penetrated beyond a line through north Wales, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Leicester before the 20th of April. On the 14th and 15th a second small immigration occurred, which apparently served to fill up gaps in the area already occupied. From the 18th to the 28th arrivals on rather a larger scale took place along the whole of the south coast, and the effect of these was at once apparent in extending the bird’s range towards the north. Derbyshire and Yorkshire were reached on the 20th and Cumberland and Northumberland on the following day. The northward passage of some of these migrants is also shown by their occurrence at Bardsey light (Carnarvon) on the 21st/22nd, while East Anglia, which had hitherto been but thinly populated, began to fill up about the same time. 64 Between the 3rd and 8th of May there were further con- siderable arrivals of Blackcaps on the western half of the south coast, followed by a final small arrival in Hampshire on the 15th. The majority of these birds seem to have been on their way to the northern counties. Nesting commenced in Berkshire on the 24th of pill in Glamorgan on the 30th, and in Hertford on the Ist of May, on which date a nest with eggs was found in Kent. Nests with eggs were also recorded in Somerset on the 2nd, in Glamorgan and Surrey on the 4th, and in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Essex on the 11th of May. (CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. Jan. 14th & 15th. Somerset. March 24th. Berks. a 26th. Sussex, Gloucester. Pe 28th. Somerset. a 30th. Devon, Surrey. April St. Cornwall. - 2nd. Hants. x ord. Devon and Somerset (passing). Sussex, Wilts, Worcester. } Ath. Gloucester, Kent. - 5th. Berks, Renfrew. f 6th. Kent (slight increase). Essex. a 7th. Hereford. Ss Sth. Somerset (increase). Oxford. i 9th. Devon (increase). Shropshire. , 10th. Devon (decrease). Leicester. a 12th. Bedford, Cambridge, Suffolk, Cheshire. i 13th. Gloucester (increase). Herts, Warwick. , 13th/14th. Hants light. es 14th. Berks (increase). Middlesex, Merioneth. 15th. Isle of Wight, Dorset, Glamorgan. 17th. Somerset (increase). Carmarthen, Mon- mouth, Staffordshire. April >) 29 99 99 18th. 19th. 20th. Zists 21st/22nd. PATONG 23rd. 24th. 25th. 26th. Dike lie 28th. 29th. 30th. JUS 2nd. ae Ath. 5th. 6th. 7th. 7th/8th. Chole 10th. 65 Devon, Somerset and Berks (increase). Hants (slight increase). Kent (increase). Somerset (decrease). Cardigan, Denbigh. Shropshire (increase). Wilts and Suffolk (sight inerease). Norfolk, Derby, Yorkshire, Northampton, Cumberland, Northumber- land. Carnarvon light. Kent and Somerset (increase). Cornwall. Berks (nesting). Isle of Wight (increase). Cheshire (slight increase ). Bedford and Glamorgan (slight increase). Carnarvon. Somerset, Surrey and Essex (increase). Hants (slight increase). Radnor. Northampton (slight increase). Glamorgan (nesting). Lancashire. Kent (nest with eggs). Herts (nesting). Middlesex and Cambridge (slight in- crease). Sussex (nesting). Worcester (usual numbers). Isle of Wight and Glamorgan (increase). Herts (slight increase). Surrey (nest with eggs). Bucks. Bucks (increase). Wilts (slight increase). Dorset (increase). Somerset (great in- crease). Shropshire (usual numbers). Lincoln, Westmoreland. Hants and Yorkshire (increase). Hants light. Somerset (nest with eges). Anglesey (usual numbers). May 11th: Sea a LEN: ate oath: , 14th/15th. a3 15th. ra 18th. 19th. 66 Lincoln (increase). Dorset, Hants, Wilts and Essex (nests with eggs). Merioneth (increase). Lancashire (increase). Leicester (great increase). Hants light. Suffolk (nest with eggs). Oxford (slight increase). Radnor (slight inenease) Middlesex and Derby (nests with eggs). Yorkshire (young birds hatched). THE GARDEN-WARBLER. Sylvia hortensis, Bechst. Tuts bird appears to have arrived along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on the eastern half. Single birds were recorded in Sussex, Cornwall and Kent on the 12th, 13th and 14th of April, but little in the way of immigration appears to have taken place up to the end of the month. Small arrivals apparently took place about the 16th, 18th and 21st, and a rather larger one be- tween the 25th and 27th; up to the 3rd of May, though there were large numbers in one or two places, the species was thinly distributed over the greater part of England and Wales. Stragglers reached Yorkshire on the 23rd, Westmoreland on the 27th of April, Cumberland on the 2nd and Northumberland on the 6th of May. The first considerable arrival of Garden-Warblers took place between the 4th and 8th of May, several being observed at Hanois light (Guernsey) and St. Catherine’s light (Hants) on the night of the 6th/7th, and many at St. Catherine’s on the 7th/8th. As the result of these immigrations an increase in the number of birds throughout the country became apparent, particularly in the northern counties, Scotland being reached on the 12th and 14th. In the meantime the earlier arrivals had already commenced to nest, and were reported in Surrey and Somerset on the 5th and in Kent and Radnor on the 9th and 10th. Nests with eggs were found in Northamptonshire on the 5th, in Yorkshire on the 8th, and in Oxfordshire and Lancashire on the 18th and 19th. F'rom the 10th to the 15th of May a further immigration took place on the eastern half of the south coast, while 68 GARDEN-WARBLER. 50 30. 40 Geographical Miles 20 +30 40 50 uy, i initial are. Engush Miles. 410 20 M= Ma in April 10 Dates withou asp WALES ol 5 bi he SP? Cie, toe ¢ = } SS — = L —————— es = 69 migrants were also recorded at the Channel Islands on the last-named date. The majority of the birds partaking in this movement seem to have been passage-migrants either on their way to breeding-places in Scotland or passing by the east coast route to more northern summer-quarters. April 99 bb) CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. 12th. W3th. 14th. IL Didln. 16th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 25th. 26th. 27th. 28th. 29th. 30th. Ist. 2nd. Bye, Ath. 5th. 6th. Sussex. Cornwall. Kent. Bedford. Devon, Somerset. Somerset (increase). Dorset, Wilts, Shrop- shire. Herts. Gloucester. Hants, Northampton, Suffolk. Surrey, Derby. Yorkshire. Isle of Wight, Rutland. Monmouth. Surrey (increase). Middlesex, Leicester, Westmoreland. Rutland (slight increase). Somerset (nest). Glamorgan, Essex, Cambridge. Northampton (increase). Radnor, Che- shire. Radnor (increase). Berks. Oxford, Merioneth, Staffordshire. Lancashire, Cumberland. Gloucester (usual numbers). Hssex and Radnor (increase). Surrey and Shropshire (increase). Surrey (nesting). Northampton and Somer- set (nests with egos), Shropshire and Staffordshire (increase). Northumberland. May 6th/7th. 7th. 7th/8th. 8th. 9th. 10th. 11th 11th/12th. Ath 12th/13th. 14th. 14th/15th. thy 15th/16th. 16th. 18th. 19th. 23rd. 26th. 30th. 31st. 70 Guernsey and Hants lights. Hants andShropshire (increase). Cardigan, Lincoln. Hants light. Shropshire, Lincoln and Yorkshire (n- crease). Yorkshire (nest with egg). Kent (nesting). Brecknock. Sussex (slight increase), Radnor (nest- ing). Anglesey (usual numbers). Merioneth and Yorkshire (increase). .Sus- sex (slight increase). Dorset and Essex (nests). Hants light. Renfrew, Loch Lomond. Hants light. Ayr. Guernsey and Hants lights. Pentland Skerries. Suffolk and Yorkshire lights. Pentland Skerries (slight increase). Tanark and Loch Lomond (increase). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Oxford (nest with eggs). Middlesex and Oxford (increase). Lan- cashire (nest with eges). Derby (nest with eggs) Warwick (nest aah ee Westmoreland (nest with eg s)- Northumberland (nest with eggs). 55” 71 THE GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. Locustella nevia (Bodd.). Tux information regarding the Grasshopper- Warbler was very meagre; in fact, it was probably seldom recorded except when special visits were made to known breeding-areas. It is almost impossible therefore to make any definite statement with regard to its area of arrival or subsequent passage through the country; but, on the whole, the evidence points to its having arrived almost entirely on the western half of the south coast. The first arrivals reported were in Dorsetshire on the 12th of April, but from the occurrence of the species at Bardsey light (Carnarvon) two nights later, it would appear that the earlier migrants were mostly overlooked. From the 16th to the end of the month first arrivals, mostly single birds, were noted in sixteen counties, including York- shire on the 24th and Cumberland on the 27th. During May one or two records of fluctuating numbers suggested that migration was still going on, but they were not sufficiently numerous for any conclusions to be drawn from them. A nest with four eggs was found in Norfolk on the 21st of May. The most interesting point with regard to this species was its occurrence at the light-stations. All the records but one from Spurn Head light (Yorkshire) on the 4th/5th of May were from west coast stations, where the birds occurred in comparatively large numbers. Many were recorded at the Isle of Man on the 23rd of April and there was evidently a considerable passage of Grasshopper-Warblers up the west coast on that date. The single east coast light-record perhaps points to a | similar passage up the east coast, but in the entire absence of any corroborative records or of any definite evidence of arrivals at the eastern extremity of the south coast, it would 72 be unsafe to draw any conclusion from it. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. April 12th. », 1dth/14th i 16th. i Iola & 20th. 53 23rd. = 24th. 3, Zou: a 26th. a 27th. . 28th. a 29th. b 30th. May Ist. is ord. Ss 5th. oun Obl 6th. » 6th/7th. 43 10th. a the i 12th: ‘ 13th. pathy loth: ae 18th. a 19th. Ks 21st. Dorset. Jarnarvon light. Surrey. Norfolk. Glamorgan, Northampton. Carmarthen, Isle of Man. Denbigh, Yorkshire. Wilts. Cheshire. Cumberland. Cornwall. Oxford, Worcester, Merioneth. Suffolk. Somerset. Cornwall (slight increase). Ayr. Cornwall (increase). Carnarvon light. Northampton (increase). Hants. Yorkshire light. Cornwall (decrease). Anglesey. Westmoreland. Oxford (increase). Anglesey light. Staffordshire. Derby, Lancashire. Norfolk (nest with eggs). THE CHIFFCHAFF. Phylloscopus rufus (Bechst.). CHIFFCHAFFS were reported to be wintering in some numbers at Penzance (Cornwall), but were not quite so numerous as usual. One was shot there in January, a second in west Somerset on the 16th of the same month, and a third was heard in the south of Cornwall on the last day of February. It has been suggested, apparently with good reason, by observers in Somerset that the birds seen in that county during the first half of March were some of the winter- residents, and this may be true of some of the other early records. This species entered the country along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on its western half. Making allow- ance for the winter-residents above mentioned, the first migrants seem to have landed between the 14th and 17th of March and distributed themselves sparsely over the southern counties and up the Welsh border as far as Shropshire and perhaps Lancashire. The first large immigration took place along the whole of the south coast between the 26th to the 29th of March, the majority of the birds coming in on the western side. Many of them seem again to have passed north along the Welsh border, spreading east and west into the western midlands and Wales, and reaching Denbigh, Yorkshire and West- moreland on the 28th. The eastern birds, fewer in number, seem to have spread more slowly through the Home counties and East Anglia, Northampton being reached on the 28th, Rutland and Lincoln on the 29th and Leicester on the 30th. The second tmmigration, a small one, arrived on the = 74 CHIFFCHAFF. Engush Miles. 10 20 30 40 SO raphical, Mies. 7020. 30 40 30 Mch.= March Dates without initial are in april EL ¥ Geog oid (0 western half of the south coast between the Ist and 3rd of April, but its effect cannot be traced for any great distance. On the 5thof Aprila very extensive movement began with an arrival at the eastern end of the south coast, followed by one in the west two days later. This migration, which seems to have contained the bulk of our nesting-birds, was continued without intermission in the west and at intervals in the east up to the 15th. ‘The arrival of some numbers in the west on the 17th of April may be regarded as the continuation of this extensive movement, and migration was also recorded at Hanois light (Guernsey) during the previous night. With the arrival of these birds the Chiffchaff’s distribution was quickly completed, and the usual numbers were reported from Cornwall on the 14th, Devon- shire, Worcestershire and Cheshire on the 15th, and Berkshire, Carmarthen, Suffolk and Carnarvon on the 22nd. Nesting was reported from Devonshire on the 15th, from Berkshire and Shropshire by ‘the 19th, and from Wiltshire on the 21st, while eggs were found in Somerset on the 25th, and in Dorsetshire and Lincolnshire on the 4th and 8th of May. There seem to have been further small immigrations on the 20th and 30th of April and the 4th and 6th of May, chiefly on the eastern half of the south coast, but their progress through the country cannot be traced. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. Jan. 16th. Cornwall, Somerset. Belen 929th Cornwall. March 4th. Somerset. be 10th. Somerset, Dorset. i Jiitthe Devon, Leicester. os 13th. Gloucester, Shropshire. 14th. Isle of Wight. 16th. Sussex, Surrey, Glamorgan. i) 17th. Cornwall, Worcester, Bedford. », Lith/24th. Cornwall (a few). March 21st. y 22nd. 5s 23rd. be 24th. cs 25th. ; 26th. £ 27th. A 28th. ft 29th. sy 30th. 9 31st. Fa 2nd. ; 3rd. ap Ath. th. - 6th es 7th. 8th. Hants. Essex. Kent, Bucks, Lancashire. Berks, Herts, Warwick. Wilts, Hereford, Northampton. Devon and Shropshire (increase). Isle of Wight and Somerset (slight increase). Surrey (increase). Hants and Tssex (shght increase). Devon (decrease). Carmarthen, Oxford, Middlesex, Nor- folk. Devonshire, Sussex and Shropshire (in- crease). Cornwall (great increase), Hssex (decrease). Monmouth, Denbigh, Derby, Notts, Yorkshire, Westmoreland. Kent and Shropshire (increase). Cornwall (great increase). Brecknock, Merioneth, Rutland, Lincoln. Yorkshire (increase). Leicester (slight in- crease). Cheshire. Shropshire (inerease). Wilts, Gloucester and Bedford (slight increase). Kent (decrease). Cardigan. Dorset and Worcester (increase). Cam- bridge. Glamorgan and Hereford (slight increase). Cumberland. Berks (increase). Carnarvon. Herts (slight increase). Kent and Surrey (increase). Warwick (slight increase). Radnor, Staffordshire. Kent and Surrey (increase). Leicester (slight increase). Suffolk... Cornwall, Kent and Bedford (increase). Notts and Lincoln (slight increase). Devon, Kent, Somerset, Gloucester and Staffordshire (increase). Carmarthen (slight increase). April 99 % 39 Py) oP) 99 >i) Sth. 10th. 11th. 12th: 16th/17th. 17th. 18th. 24th. tlie 26th. 27th. (7 Devon (inerease). Monmouth (slight in- crease). Devon and Leicester (increase). Shrop- shire (decrease). Anglesey, Isle of Man. Devon (increase). Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hants; Somerset, Gloucester and Middlesex (increase). Glamorgan and Merioneth (slight in- crease). Devon, Isle of Wight, Hants, Wilts, Herts and Essex (increase), Devon and Glamorgan (increase). Corn- wall (usual numbers). Hants, Kent, Wilts, Northampton and Shropshire (increase). Berks (decrease). Devon, Worcester and Cheshire (usual numbers). Devon (nesting). Guernsey light. Dorset, Hants, Denbigh and Yorkshire (increase). Middlesex, Denbigh and Carnarvon (in- crease). Berks (great increase). lincoln (increase). Berks (nesting). Shropshire (nest), Wilts, Suffolk, Radnor and Leicester (in- crease). Sussex (passing). Wilts (nesting). Cambridge (increase). Middlesex (de- crease). Hants (nest). Berks, Car- marthen, Suffolk and Carnarvon (usual numbers). Yorkshire and Leicester (decrease), Arran. Derby (increase). Cambridge (decrease). Somerset (nest with ego). Bedtord (increase). Gloucester (nest). Lincoln and Yorkshire uncrease,. 28th. 29th, |. _ 30th. 3rd. Ath. 5th. 6th. Sth. 10th. 71st. 78 Isle of Man (slight increase). Northum- berland. Staffordshire (usual numbers). Sussex (increase). Northumberland (increase). Wilts and Middlesex (inerease). Dorset (nest with eggs). Derby (decrease). Sussex (increase). Lincoln (nest with eggs). Anglesey (usual numbers). Isle of Man (increase). THE WILLOW-WARBLER. Phylloscopus trochilus (L.). THE Willow-Warbler arrived along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on the western half. The earliest record was of one seen in Dorsetshire on the 10th of March, and between the 14th and 29th stragglers were reported in a few districts as far north as Staffordshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. Between the 27th of March and the 8th of April small numbers arrived in a straggling manner at points along the whole of the south coast and scattered over the country, but with the exception of one or two birds that reached Westmoreland on the 4th of April and Yorkshire on the 6th, they do not seem to have penetrated any further north than their predecessors, though they spread laterally into Wales and Hast Anglia. On the 9th and 11th an immigration of somewhat larger dimensions occurred at the eastern end of the south coast, but if the birds composing it penetrated far from their points of entry, their subsequent course was lost in the very extensive movement that immediately succeeded it. his latter, which no doubt included the bulk of our breeding- birds, began with arrivals at both the eastern and western | ends of the south coast on the 12th and 13th. In the west fresh arrivals took place daily up to the 28th and. in Hampshire up to the 20th of April; between that date and the 28th in Hampshire, and up to the 21st in Sussex and Kent, the arrivals were intermittent and seem then to have ceased. During the earlier half of this movement con- siderable numbers occurred at the light-stations off the Devon and Cornish coasts, as well as in the Channel Islands. The progress of these birds northward is well shown in the Chronological Summary, the southern counties filling up WILLOW-WARBLER. ENGLAND Us May tes without iitial are in Apeil Mch=March. Da SL first, and those on the western side of the country being considerably in advance of those on the east: thus numbers had reached Lancashire and Cumberland, and others had penetrated some distance into the Clyde area before there was any appreciable increase in Hast Anglia, Nottingham and Lincoln, and the first record for Northumberland was coincidental with that from Argyll. The magnitude of the movement on the western side was also shown by the large numbers passing north by a coastal route. This was indicated by the number of records and the very considerable number of individuals recorded from the light-stations between Lundy Island (N. Devon) and the Isle of Man and the Lancashire coast during that period. A similar but smaller movement by a route up the east coast was indicated by the occurrences at the lights on the Yorkshire coast on the 19th and 20th. A second extensive immigration, chiefly on the western half of the south coast, took place during the first half of May: commencing on the 4th, arrivals took place daily up to the 8th and then intermittently up to the 15th. The majority of these birds were no doubt passage-migrants on their way to more northerly nesting-areas. It was doubtful from the records whether any considerable number passed through the country ; for our own birds being at that time very numerous, passage-migrants were difficult to detect. There can be no doubt, however, that very considerable numbers passed north by both the east and west coast routes as was shown by the records from the light-stations, which indicate that these passage-movements were in progress until the end of May. Willow- Warblers were nesting in Radnor on the 21st of April and in Glamorgan and Shropshire on the 24th and 25th, while nests with eggs were foand in Cheshire on the 29th, in Yorkshire on the 5th of May, in Wiltshire and Staffordshire on the 6th, in Derby on the 17th, in Oxford on the 19th and in Perthshire on the 23rd. An example of the Northern Willow-Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus eversmanni) was killed at Hanois light (Guernsey) on the bth/7th of May. g2 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REcorRDS. March 10th. 3) 14th. 15th. 19th. 24th. 26th. 27th. 29th. Sst: sts 2nd. 3rd. Ath. 5th. 6th. tl. 9th. 10th. 11th. 12th. 12th/13th. 13th. 13th/14th. 14th, 14th/15th. Dorset. Berks. Guernsey. Gloucester. Northampton. Somerset, Staffordshire, Leicester. Kent. Staffordshire (slight increase). Car- marthen. Cornwall, Essex, Bedford, Shropshire. Somerset (increase). Pembroke, Hereford, Norfolk. Sussex, Surrey, Suffolk, Derby. Devon, Hants. Carnarvon, Westmoreland. Dorset, Kent, Brecknock, Merioneth, Cheshire. Monmouth, Yorkshire. Bedford (great increase). Wilts, Here- ford, Cambridge. Kent (slight increase). Isle of Wight, Denbigh. Glamorgan, Berks. Sussex (increase). Lincoln. Devon and Gloucester (increase). Middle- sex, Herts, Radnor. Cornwall light. Isle of Wight, Hants, Kent, Surrey, Hssex, Herts and Derby (increase). Worcester, Warwick, Cumberland. Devon, Hants and Carnarvon lights. Surrey, Glamorgan and Shropshire (in- crease). Northampton (great increase). Teicester (slight increase). Oxford, Isle of Man. Cornwall, Carnaryon and Anglesey lights. April 99 99 99 9 99 bb) 99 99 99 ye) ) 2? otis 15th/16th. 16th. 16th/17th. E7the 18th. 8th/19th. 19th. 19th/20th. 20th. 20th/21st. 21st. 21st/22nd. 22nd. $3 Isle of Wight, Dorset, Essex, Worcester, Leicester and Cheshire (increase). Pembroke (slight increase). Cardigan, Lancashire, Renfrew. Guernsey and Hants lights. Cheshire and Lancashire (increase). Notts. Guernsey, Cornwall and Hants lights. Dorset, Hants, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Radnor, Shropshire and Denbigh (in- crease). Somerset (great increase). Renfrew, Ayr. Devon, Hants, Sussex, Berks, Wilts, Shrop- shire and Cumberland (increase). Norfolk (slight increase). (great Montgomery. Somerset and Car- narvon increase). Cornwall, Guernsey and Yorkshire lights. Devon, Hants, Berks, Gloucester, Oxford, Middlesex, Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Cumberland (increase). Northumber- land, Argyll. Yorkshire light. Devon, Hants, Wilts, Essex, Herts, Leicester, Warwick, Staffordshire, York- shire and Lancashire (increase), West- moreland (slight increase). Berks (de- crease). Carnarvon light. Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Suffolk, Radnor, Warwick, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Northumberland (in- crease). Renfrew and Argyll (great increase). Radnor (nesting). Carnarvon light. Devon, Somerset, Carmarthen, Cambridge, Staffordshire, Westmoreland, Cumber- land, Northumberland and Renfrew (in- crease). Brecknock and Staffordshire April 3”) 23rd. 24th. 25th. 26th. 27th. 28th. 29th. 30th. Ist. 3rd. 3rd/4th. Ath Ath/Sth. 5th. 5th/6th. 6th. 6th/7th. 7th. 7th/8th. sth/9th. 9th/10th. 84 (great increase). Shropshire, Cheshire - and Derby (usual numbers). Devon, Oxford and Renfrew (increase). Staffordshire (great increase). Yorkhire (usual numbers). Devon, Monmouth, Lincoln and Renfrew (increase). Shropshire (nest). Devon, Cambridge, Isle of Man and Ren- frew (increase). Glamorgan (nest). Devon, Bedford, Renfrew and Argyll (in- crease). Devon and Lincoln (increase), Devon (nest with eggs). Devon, Merioneth and Montgomery (in- crease). Somerset, Berks, Carmarthen, Stafford- shire and Cumberland (usual numbers). Cheshire (nest with eggs). Dorset (decrease). Merioneth (increase). Isle of Wight (nest with eggs). Hssex (nest). Somerset light. Dorset and Sussex (increase). Hants and Surrey (nesting). Somerset, Lancashire and Isle of Man lights. Bedford (increase). Yorkshire (nest with egos). Guernsey, Hants, Carnarvon, Isle of Man and Yorkshire lights. Wilts and Staffordshire (nests with eggs). Guernsey, Hants and Yorkshire lichts. Lancashire (increase). Somerset (nest with eggs). Hants and Somerset lights. Yorkshire light. Kent light. May 29) 10th. 10th/1 lth: 11th. 11th/12th. 13th. 14th/15th. 15th. 15th/16th. 16th. lithe 18th. 19th. Dance 30th/31st. 85 Lancashire (increase). Isle of Man light. Pentland Skerries (numbers arrived). Somerset light. Lancashire (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Guernsey aud Yorkshire lights. Pentland Skerries (slight increase). Yorkshire light. Westmoreland (nest). Derby (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (decrease). Oxford (nest with eggs). Perth (nest with eggs). Isle of Man light. 86 THE WOOD-WARBLER. Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechst.). No very definite evidence was furnished by the reports sent in as to the points of entry of this species on our southern coast, but it seems to have arrived mainly on the eastern half. The earliest record was from Cheshire on the 16th of April, and from that date to the end of the month the birds appear to have straggled into the country either singly or in very small numbers. A slight immigratory movement probably took place between the 18th and 23rd, when a few were noted in Devonshire and Dorsetshire, and several in Hampshire, the birds in the latter county passing on at once. It also seems probable that there was a second small immi- gration at the end of the month. The May records were likewise very scanty, and as no Wood-Warblers were observed at any of the lights it can only be said that a slightly more marked influx seems to have taken place between the 4th and 12th. Wood-Warblers were nesting in Somerset and Surrey on the 2nd of May, in Devonshire on the 11th, and in Northumberland on the 16th, while a nest with eggs was found in Radnor on the 10th and one with young in Berkshire on the 26th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. April 16th. Cheshire. is 18th. Dorset. bs 19th. Kent, Berks, Staffordshire, Denbigh. s 20th. Devon, Sussex, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnor, Leicester, Northumberland. 99 99 May 99 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 24th. 2 els 26th. 27th. 28th. 29th. 30th. 2nd. 3rd. 4th/5th. oth. 6th. (iar 9th. 10th. 11th. 12th. 16th. 18th. 23rd. 26th. 87 Wilts, Yorkshire. Hants, Westmoreland. Dorset (increase). Shropshire, Cardigan, Cumberland. Somerset. Monmouth. Surrey, Gloucester. Yorkshire (increase). Middlesex, War- wick. Essex, Herts, Lancashire, Arran, Dum- barton. Shropshire (increase). Carmarthen, Ayr. Merioneth. Somerset and Surrey (nesting). Derby. Bedford. Radnor (increase). Hssex, Surrey and Monmouth (slight increase). Oxford, Bucks. Derby (slight increase). Shropshire (usual numbers). Northampton. Hants (increase). Northumberland (slight increase). Merioneth . (increase). Anglesey (few). Radnor (nest with eggs). Worcester. Devon (nesting). Hssex (increase). Northumberland (nest). Derby (increase). Gloucester (slight increase). Berks (nest with young). ip 2) HK THE REED-WARBLER. Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). Like the Grasshopper-Warbler, the present species was seldom recorded unless a special visit was paid to its nesting- haunts. Consequently, owing to the scantiness and doubtful nature of many of the records (so many of them being based on single observations) its points of entry and subse- quent movements were very difficult to define. On the whole it seems probable that it entered the country mainly on the eastern half of the south coast. The first arrivals reported were in Hampshire and Surrey on the 19th of April, and on the following day a few were noted in Suffolk. An influx of migrants must have taken place about the 3rd week in April, as a few were observed in Cheshire on the 25th, and increased numbers were reported in the same county on the 26th and 27th. The larger number of our summer-residents, however, seem to have arrived during the first fortnight in May, an increase being recorded in Kent on the 1st, in Somerset on the 5th, and in Essex on the 8th and 13th, while a single bird was killed at St. Catherine’s light (Hampshire) on the night of the 6th/7th. Reed-Warblers were nesting in Hampshire on the 20th of May and in Westmoreland on the 30th. Nests with eggs were found in Hssex on the 21st, in Oxford on the 26th, and in Somerset on the 29th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REcoRDs. April 19th. Hants, Surrey. . 20th Suffolk. 26th. 26th/27th. 2 iie 29th. Ist. 2nd. 4th. 5th. 6th. 6th/7th. ack 8th. 9th. 10th. he 14th. 19th. 20th. 21st. 26th. 29th. 30th. 89 Kent, Herts. Cheshire. Somerset. Cheshire (increase). Cambridge, Leicester. Wilts, Essex. Kent (increase). Bedford. Laneashire. Somerset (slight increase). Cheshire (usual numbers). Hants light. _ Middlesex. Essex (increase). Sussex. Northumberland. Essex (increase). Derby. Oxford. Yorkshire. Hants (nesting). Fssex (nest with eggs). Oxford (nest with eggs). Somerset (nest with egg). Westmoreland (nesting). Northampton. G 90 SEDGH-WARBLER. Die ans Itial are m= Dates without in in April aL THE SEDGE-WARBLER. Acrocephalus phragmitis (Bechst.). Tun Sedge-Warbler arrived along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly on the eastern half. The first arrivals recorded were two birds in Somersetshire on the 7th of April. A few other stragglers appeared be- tween that date and the 14th, and were followed by slightly larger numbers in Hampshire and Kent on the 15th, and in Dorset on the 17th. Further smaller immigrations occurred on the south coast as far west as the Eddystone between the 20th and 22nd, at the Isles of Scilly on the 26th, and in Dorsetshire on the 29th, so that by the end of the month Sedge-Warblers were thinly but evenly distributed over the whole country. They reached Yorkshire by the 21st and Cumberland on the 25th, while arrivals were recorded in the Clyde area by the Ist and 2nd of May. In the latter half of the first week of May a larger immi- gration took place along the whole of the south coast, and was followed by another during the second week of the month, both of these movements being recorded in the Channel Islands. The first of these seems to have comprised both passage- migrants and our own summer-residents, more particularly those of the midlands, northern counties and Scotland, while the second seems to have consisted mainly of passa ge- migrants. The presence of the latter in both movements is shown by the occurrences at lights on the west and more particularly on the east coast, as well as by the records from the Pentland Skerries. These passage-movements continued until the middle of the third week in May. In the mean- while the earlier arrivals lost but little time in settling down, Ge 92 as they were nesting in Cheshire on the 3rd of May, in | Hampshire on the 5th, in Suffolk on the 8th, and in Berk- shire and Glamorgan on the 9th. Young birds were hatching out in Wiltshire on the 18th. April 3° May 9 99 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REcoRDs. 7th. 9th, 13th. 14th. 15th: 17th. 18th. 19th. 19th/20th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. 23rd. 24th. 25th. 26th. 27th. 28th. 29th. 30th. 1st. ard. Ath. Ath/5th. Somerset. Devon, Wilts. Berks. Herts. Hants, Kent. Dorset, Suffolk. Somerset (increase). Surrey. Herts (increase). Cambridge, Cheshire. Cornwall light. Isle of Wight, Radnor, Warwick, Shrop- shire. Suffolk (increase). Berks (slight increase). Sussex, Gloucester, Norfolk, Yorkshire. Hants and Kent (increase). Carmarthen. Worcester. Essex. Cheshire (increase). Cumberland. Isles of Scilly. Gloucester, Cambridge, Shropshire and Cheshire (increase). Derby, Cumberland (increase), Glamorgan. Dorset and Wilts (increase). Berks (usual numbers). Oxford, Staffordshire. Suffolk and Derby (increase). Yorkshire (slight increase). Merioneth. Oxford (increase). Merioneth (slight increase). Cornwall, Bedford, Clyde. Bedford and Cheshire (increase). Cheshire (nesting). Cornwall (decrease). Ayr. Clyde (increase). Bucks. Guernsey light. May 5th. 5th/6th. 6th. 6th/7th. tlie 7th/8th. Sch. 8th/9th. 9th. 9th/10th. 10th. 10th/11th. 11th. 11th/12th. 12th. 12th/13th. 14th. 14th/15th. 16th. 17th. 17th/18th. 18th. 19th. 26th. 27th. Se} Cornwall, Somerset and Herts (increase). Hants (nest). Lancashire. Guernsey, Hants and Yorkshire lights. Cumberland (increase). Derby and Cheshire (usual numbers). Northampton, Cardigan. Guernsey, Hants, Suffolk and Yorkshire lights. Worcester (usual numbers). Hants light. Essex and Yorkshire (increase). Suffolk (nesting). Isle of Man. Yorkshire light. Essex (increase), Berks and Glamorgan (nests). Middlesex, Ayr. Kent light. Yorkshire and Clyde (inerease). Anglesey. Isle of Man and Yorkshire lights. Kent (increase), Pentland Skerries. Hants light. Glamorgan and Clyde (increase). Corn- wall and Pentland Skerries (decrease). Hssex (nest). Renfrew. Guernsey and Hants lights, Leicester. Hants light, Pentland Skerries (incréase). Pentland Skerries (decrease), Yorkshire light. Wilts (young hatching). Kent (nest with eggs). Oxford (nest with eggs), Lancashire (nesting). Westmoreland. THE WHITE WAGTAIL. Motacilla alba (L.). THE reports sent in with regard to this species are too dis- connected and meagre for any concise account to be given of its movements. It apparently arrived in pairs or quite small parties at many points along the south coast from Cornwall to Kent, but possibly the majority arrived at the western extremity. It seems to have straggled through the country by no very definite route, though the records from the vicinity of the west coast are more numerous than those from elsewhere and perhaps point to a more or less “ coasting’? passage northwards. The earliest record was from Renfrew on the 23rd of March, so that the migration period must have lasted from about the third week of that month until at least the 20th of May, when birds were still passing the Pentland Skerries. The last arrival recorded on the south coast was indicated by a single bird taken at St. Catherine’s light (Hampshire) on May 6th/7th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE REcorRDs. Mareh 23rd. Renfrew. 25th. Sussex. “a 29th. Kent, Lancashire. April Ist. Worcester. B 2nd. Kent, Yorkshire. a 3rd. Brecknock. Ks Ath. Montgomery. a Sth. Kent, Worcester. 4 i . I Y i Apri LO yelng 12th. 1 Sthe 15th. 17th to 22nd. 19th. 20th. 22nd. 24th. Deolne 26th. ,, 26th to 28th. May 9° 28th. tse 2nd. 2nd to 12th. 3rd. Sth. 6th. 6th/7th. 8th. 9th. 10th. ILL, 95 Devon, Oxford, Ayr. Dumbarton (many). Herts. Berks, Leicester. Cornwall, Herts, Northampton, Lanark. Yorkshire. Cheshire. Gloucester. Derby. Merioneth, Derby, Lancashire. Cambridge, Denbigh. Wilts, Cheshire. Somerset. Yorkshire. Surrey. Isle of Man (few, passing). Herts. Lancashire (passing). Somerset (five passing). Westmoreland. Clyde (noted as passing up to that date). Northampton, Derby. Hants light. Pentland Skerries (one). Merioneth. Pentland Skerries (increase). Pentland Skerries (decrease), Lincoln, Cheshire. Pentland Skerries (increase). Herts, Isle of Man. Pentland Skerries (increase). Isle of Man. Pentland Skerries (increase). 96 YELLOW WAGTAIL. ENGLAND arp WALES lish Mules. 70 20 30° 40 Geographical Mi » 8 30 4 Mch=March. M= May April Dates without initial are in oi THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. Motacilla rati (Bonap.). Tue Yellow Wagtail arrived along the whole of the south coast, but mainly on the eastern half. Early stragglers were recorded in Suffolk on the 16th of March and in Berkshire on the 26th. tne 26th. 29th. 30th. 2 2nd to 30th. 116 Scilly Isles, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Northampton, Cambridge, Derby, Lan- cashire and Cumberland (iucrease). Cornwall (slight increase). Devon, Kent and Surrey (passing). Staffordshire (passing). Leicester (decrease). Argyll. Guernsey light. Radnor and Yorkshire (increase). Somerset light. Hants (increase). Car- marthen and Cumberland (slight in- crease). Oxford and Middlesex (nest- ing). Isle of Wight, Hants, Essex, Herts, Bed- ford, Cambridge, Montgomery, Shrop- shire and Lancashire (increase). Den- bigh (slight increase). Somerset (pass- ing). Hants and Essex (increase). Scilly Isles (great increase). Hants, Oxford, Montgomery, Warwick, Shropshire, Derby, Suffolk, Yorkshire and Cumberland (increase). Scilly Isles (great decrease). Dorset, Kent, Somerset, Carmarthen, Worcester, Cumberland and Northum- berland (increase). Sussex (decrease). Hssex (passing). 29th to 5th May. Sussex (passing). Cornwall, Wiltshire and Denbigh (in- crease). Cambridge (slight increase). Somerset light. Cornwall, Somerset, Essex, Oxtord and Lincoln (increase). Kent, Hssex, Leicester and Isle of Man (increase). Isle of Wight, Kent, Wiltshire and Gla- morgan (increase). Cornwall (decrease). May 9 Ath. 5th. dth/6th. 6th. Tilo, 7th to 11th. 8th. 9th. 10th. eG 12th. 13th. 13th to 19th. 17th. 18th. 20th. Oasis Buf Guernsey and Somerset lights. Hants, Middlesex, Glamorgan, Radnor, War- wick, Shropshire and Lincoln (increase). Somerset light. Cornwall, Surrey, Herts, Glamorgan, Lincoln, Yorkshire and Renfrew (increase). Brecknock (pass- ing). Guernsey light. Yorkshire light. Devonshire, Dorset, Hants, Kent, Essex, Wiltshire, Glamor- gan, Carmarthen, Lancashire and West- moreland (increase). Staffordshire (great increase). Kent, Surrey, Suffolk and Northumberland (nesting). Somerset light. Devon, Cambridge and Norfolk (increase). Cumberland (nest with eggs). Pentland Skerries (small numbers passing). Devon (increase). Devon and Lancashire (increase). Somerset light. Devon and Lancashire (increase). Anglesey (few). Somerset and Yorkshire lights. Devon, Sussex and Herts (increase). Yorkshire light. \ Devon and Sussex (increase). Cambridge (nesting). Devon and Pembroke (increase). Derby and Lincoln (nesting). Somerset (numbers arrived). Glamorgan (increase). Gloucester and Pentland Skerries (passing). Oxford (slight increase). Lancashire (nest with eggs). Lancashire light. Berks (young birds). Sussex (increase). 118 HOUSE-MARTIN. ENGLAND arn WALES Engush Mules. Oo 40 S50 Geographical, Miles 10 20 30 -400—C 50 Mch.=March. M= May Dates without initial are in April THE HOUSE-MARTIN. Chelidon urbica (L.). THE House-Martin arrived along the whole of the south coast, but in greatest numbers on its western half. One that had evidently remained throughout the winter was seen at Hampton Court on the 10th of January. The earliest arrival reported was in Sussex on the 25th of March, several others being seen in the same county on the following day. From the 26th of March until the 16th of April small numbers arrived, almost entirely in the west, an early straggler reaching Northumberland on the 8th, while others reached the Midlands and Yorkshire by the 13th and 15th. Somewhat larger numbers arrived in Devonshire and Hampshire on the 17th and in Sussex on the 20th, but the main immigration seems to have started on the 25th and, with the exception of the 28th, continued daily until the 12th of May. Arrivals took place daily in Devonshire and irregu- larly along the rest of the south coast, very few coming in to the east of Hampshire. Most of the summer-residents for the eastern counties seem to have been included in the portions of this movement that arrived between Hampshire and Kent on the Sth, 9th, 10th and 11th of May. At the time this large immigration was taking place many House- Martins had already begun to nest, as was recorded, in Westmoreland on the 30th of April, in Yorkshire on the 2nd of May, in Wiltshire on the 8rd, in Suffolk on the 8th, in Radnor and Derbyshire on the 10th, in Warwickshire and Lincolnshire on the 13th, and in Hertfordshire, Herefordshire and Lancashire on the 20th. Fluctuating numbers in the 120 southern and western counties and in the Isle of Man ~ indicated, however, that passage-movements continued right up to the end of May. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. March 25th. Sussex. 55 26th. Sussex (slight increase). Somerset. x 29th. Hants. April Ist. Sussex (decrease). Shropshire. My drd. Devon. 4th. Glamorgan. * 5th. Berks. 6th. Cornwall. 7th. Hereford. es 8th. Middlesex, Northumberland. ry 9th. Somerset. 53 10th. Notts. 2 11th. Dorset. ie 12th. Gloucester. Re 13th. Surrey, Leicester, Derby, Yorkshire. i 15th. Hants, Wilts, Monmouth, Montgomery, Staffordshire. , 15th to 21st. Cheshire (passing). a 16th. Suffolk, Norfolk. 55 17th. Devon and Hants (increase). ras 18th. Carmarthen. is 19th. Clyde. i 20th. Sussex, Surrey and Derby (increase). Oxford, Bedford, Radnor, Warwick, Lancashire, Renfrew. - 21st. Essex. & 22nd. Shropshire (inerease). Wiltshire (slight increase). Worcester, Merioneth. . 23rd. Staffordshire (increase). Herts. " 24th. Radnor (increase). Kent. be 25th. Hants and Berks (increase). ,, 20th to 27th. Devon (passing). April 26th. 9 99 99 3? 99 Othe 28th. 29th. 121 Somerset and Bedford (increase). Isle of Wight. Sussex and Lancashire (increase). Lei- cester (slight increase). Cambridge, Brecknock, Cumberland. Herts (increase). Kent. Dorset, Somerset and Yorkshire (increase). Hssex (passing). 29th to May 5th. Devon (passing). 30th. Ist. 2nd. drd. Ath. 5th. 6th. 7th. Sth. 9th. 10th. 10th/11th. 11th. 12th. Somerset (decrease). Westmoreland (nesting). Denbigh. : Yorkshire (increase). Montgomery (slight increase). Somerset (passing). Bedford, Leicester and Cumberland (in- crease). Cambridge (slight increase). Glamorgan (increase). Wilts and York- shire (nesting). Hants, Middlesex, Glamorgan and Radnor (increase). Bucks. Kent, Hssex, Herts and Glamorgan (in- crease). Brecknock (passing). Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Gloucester, Wilts, Glamorgan, Suffolk, Cheshire and Cumberland (increase). Stafford- shire (nesting). Northampton, Lincoln. Devon, Cambridge and Lincoln (increase). Devon, Wilts, Montgomery and Cheshire (increase). Suffolk (nesting). Isle of Man. Devon, Hants, Gloucester and Derby (in- crease). Monmouth (slight increase). Somerset (passing). Devon, Sussex and Lincoln (increase). Anglesey (numbers). Radnor and Derby (nesting). Isle of Man light. Devon, Hants and Sussex (increase). Isle of Man light. Devon (increase). I 13th. 14th. the 16th. 17th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 20th/21st. 21st. 23rd. 24th. 25th. 28th. 29th. 122 Hssex, Norfolk, Derby and Yorkshire: (increase). Warwick and _ Lincoln (nesting). Renfrew, Ayr. Herts and Wilts (increase). Wilts (increase). “Devon, Somerset and Yorkshire (increase). Oxford (slight increase). Kent (increase). Isle of Man (slight increase). Hants, Gloucester and Lancashire (in- crease). Herts and Hereford (nesting). Lancashire (nests). Isle of Man light. Essex (increase). Wilts (great increase). Worcester (nesting). Isle of Man light. Glamorgan (great in- crease). Staffordshire (increase). Gloucester (de- crease). Gloucester (increase). Hants (increase). THE SAND-MARTIN. Cotile riparia (L.). Sanp-Martins arrived along the whole of the south coast, but first and principally on the western portion. The first bird was reported from Hampshire on the 18th of March, and between the 25th of that month and the 6th of April a few stragglers came in, almost if not entirely, at the western end of the south coast, and were reported from different localities, chiefly in the western half of the king- dom, as far north as Lanark. Between the 7th and the 20th of April several immigrations occurred at different points along the whole of the south coast, the largest numbers apparently arriving in the west on the 13th and from the 18th to the 20th ; none of these movements, however, were of any magnitude, and though widely distributed all over the country by the end of the third week in April, Sand- Martins do not seem to have appeared in large numbers any where. Movements on a larger scale began on the 25th of April, and from that date up to the 6th of May arrivals were taking place daily on the western half of the coast, and at intervals on the eastern half. During the course of this immigration the colonies all over the country quickly filled up, and the earlier arrivals had already commenced nesting- operations. They were seen entering their nesting-holes in Yorkshire on the 26th of April, in Staffordshire on the 6th of May, in Dorset on the 13th and in Hertfordshire on the 14th, while eggs were found in Somerset on the 4th and in Northumberland on the 19th. Further arrivals apparently continued to take place at intervals up to the 25th of May, and migration seems to have 12 4 SAND-MARTIN. = May Dates without initial are M in April 125 been in progress through the western counties during the greater part of the month, but the records were not sufficiently numerous to point to any definite conclusion. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. March 18th. Hants. 25th. Somerset. 27th. Devon. i 28th. Shropshire, Cheshire. : ollsts Cheshire (increase). Glamorgan. Agora, © Isve. Surrey, Cambridge, Carnarvon, Derby, Yorkshire. fs 2nd. Cornwall, Devon, Middlesex. 5 3rd. Sussex. = Ath. Herts. ss 5th. Cornwall (decrease). Dorset, Carmarthen, Lanark. 6th. Wilts, Montgomery. i 7th. Hants. 8th. Somerset, Surrey, Gloucester, Hereford, Suffolk. 55 9th. Herts (increase). Montgomery (slight increase). a 10th. Cheshire (increase). Herts (decrease). Leicester. 10th to 14th. Essex (passing). 11th. Cheshire Gncrease). Moray. 12th. Worcester, Northampton, Norfolk, Dum- barton. 13th. Devon and Hants (increase). Glamorgan, Shropshire. 14th. Kent, Berks, Lancashire. 15th. Herts and Suffolk (increase). Pembroke, Radnor, Staffordshire, Ayr. 16th. Surrey (increase). Kent (slight increase). Cardigan, Cumberland. 17th. Suffolk (increase). Wilts (slight in- crease). Renfrew. 9) May 29 9) 18th. 19th. 20th, altsite 22nd. Dearie ols 24th. 25th. 26th. 27th. 28th, 29th, 30th, Ist. 2nd. 126 Cornwall (slight increase). Merioneth, - Warwick. Derby (increase). Cornwall (slight in- crease). Denbigh. Lancashire (increase), Cornwall (slight increase). Bedford, Northumberland, Argyll. Pembroke, Bedford, Leicester and Norfolk (increase). Herts (passing). Breck- nock. Northampton, Radnor, Montgomery, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cumber- land (increase). Suffolk and Cheshire (decrease) . Surrey, Cambridge and Northumberland (increase), Cambridge (increase). Devon, Yorkshire and Cumberland (in- crease). Gloucester and Bedford (increase). Cheshire (great increase). Devon (de- crease). Yorkshire (nesting). Hants, Surrey, Middlesex, Somerset, Suffolk, Shropshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire (increase). Yorkshire (increase). Cornwall (slight increase). Devon, Dorset, Kent, Wilts, Essex, Radnor and Cumberland (increase). Cheshire and Yorkshire (decrease). Oxford. Devon (increase). Carmarthen (slight increase). Derby (great increase). Somerset and Gloucester (decrease). Cornwall and Oxford (increase). Gloucester and Leicester (increase). 8rd to Gth. Glamorgan (increase). May 99 Ath, 5th/6th. 6th. 8th. 9th. 10th. 13th. 14th. 16th. 17th. 19th. 20th. Doras 24th. 25th. 26th. 127 Middlesex and Yorkshire (increase). Somerset (nest and eggs). Guernsey light. Dorset (increase). Derby (usual numbers). Staffordshire (nesting). Somerset, Hssex and Montgomery (in- crease). Carmarthen and Warwick (increase). Pentland Skerries (passing). Renfrew (increase). Dorset (nesting). Isle of Man light. Oxford (increase). Herts (nesting). Warwick (increase). Oxford and Warwick (decrease). Northumberland (nest with eggs). Essex (sitting). Warwick (increase). Warwick (decrease). Hants (increase). Oxford (increase). Hants (decrease). 128 SWIFT. ° os ENGLAND arp WALES Engush Mules. TERE S Walle ae Cypselus apus (l.). TuIs species entered the country along the whole of the south coast, but chiefly to the west of Sussex. Harly stragglers were seen in Hampshire on the 17th of April, in Devonshire and Wiltshire on the 20th and 21st and in Yorkshire on the 23rd. Immigration seems to have com- menced with the arrival of some birds in the Scilly Isles on the 25th, and from that date migrants in gradually in- creasing numbers continued to come in daily on the western half of the south coast up to the 7th of May; these were followed by a final influx on the 9th and 10th. To the east of Hampshire practically no Swifts arrived until the 6th of May. The few earlier arrivals in the south-eastern counties seem to have travelled there from the west, while most of the breeding-birds for that area, as well as for Hast Anglia, apparently arrived during the last few days of the main movement, on the 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th of May. The progress of the main body through the western counties was rapid, and stragglers soon appeared in most of the northern counties and in Scotland, while considerable numbers reached Yorkshire and Wales some days before there was any increase in the east and south-east. After this migration it was clear that the greater part of our Swifts had arrived, and they were reported as nesting in Staffordshire on the 6th of May and in Surrey on the 8th. Further small arrivals, however, took place at intervals in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire up to the 26th, but their progress could be traced from the records, and it is quite possible that they were merely supplementary residents for the south-eastern counties. 99 130 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDs. ithe 20th. 21st. Zoran Zot 26th. Dich. 28th. 29th. Hants. Devon. Wilts. Yorkshire. Scilly Isles, Hereford. Dorset, Glamorgan, Surrey, Herts, Breck- nock, Radnor, Montgomery, Lancashire. Scilly Isles and Brecknock (increase). Wilts (slight increase). Kent, Somerset, Oxford, Middlesex, Essex, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Worcester, Northampton, Shropshire, Cheshire. Hants, Radnor, Cheshire and Yorkshire (increase). Cornwall, Carnarvon, Warwick, Ayr. Hssex (increase). Berks, Bedford, Mon- mouth, Merioneth, Staffordshire. ,», 29th to May 5th. Devon (passing). 99 May 30th. 1st. 2nd. ord. Ath. dth. 6th. Somerset (increase). Cambridge. Cornwall (increase). Derby, Westmore- land, Cumberland. Essex (decrease). Denbigh, Leicester. Berks, Glamorgan and Staffordshire (in- crease). Worcester (slight increase). Isle of Wight, Gloucester. Hants, Wilts, Middlesex, Glamorgan and Radnor (increase). Sussex, Bucks, Suffolk. Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hants, Berks, Surrey, Oxford, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Cheshire and Westmoreland (increase). Herts (slight increase). Pembroke, Notts. Dorset, Hants, Kent, Wilts, Essex, xloucester, Somerset, Glamorgan, Wor- cester, Cambridge, Shropshire and Lan- May 99 99 99 7th. 8th. 9th. 10th. P3the 14th. 15th. » 17th & 18th. 18th. 19th. 20th. Diliste Qarde 131 cashire (increase). Devon (slight in- crease). Staffordshire (nesting). Nor- folk, Isle of Man. Sussex, Herts, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cam- bridge, Warwick, Derby, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumberland (increase). Cheshire (great increase). Devon and Cardigan (slight increase). Kssex, Montgomery, Shropshire, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Westmoreland (increase). Staffordshire (great increase). Mon- mouth (slight increase). Cardigan (de- crease). Surrey (nesting). Dorset, Sussex, Surrey, Somerset and Carmarthen (increase). Durham, Ren- frew. Cornwall, Dorset, Surrey, Wilts, Somerset, Gloucester, Merioneth, Lancashire and Cumberland (increase). Anglesey (many). Lancashire (increase). Cheshire (slight decrease). Essex, Herts, Norfolk, Lancashire and Yorkshire (increase). Cambridge (great increase). Isle of Man (slight increase). Lincoln. Norfolk and Pembroke (increase). Derby (usual numbers). Kent and Monmouth (increase). Leicester (great increase). Pentland Skerries (passing). Yorkshire (increase). Renfrew (slight increase). Sussex (increase). Warwick (increase). Berks (usual num- bers). Hssex (increase). Westmoreland (increase). ,. 24th to 26th. Hants (increase). THE NIGHTJAR. Caprimulgus europeus (Glia) Tue records sent in concerning the Nightjar were very scanty, and hardly sufficient to indicate its area of arrival with any certainty ; but it seems to have landed chiefly on the eastern half of the south coast. The earliest record was in Wiltshire on the 8th of April, and single birds were observed in Surrey, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire between the 16th and 29th, an increase in the last-named county taking place on the 30th. Small arrivals apparently took place along the whole of the south coast during the first ten days of May, and one of somewhat larger dimensions seems to have occurred about the middle of the month, as an extension of range com- mencing on the 12th was noticeable. The birds reached Cumberland on the 17th and Northumberland on the 19th, while a single bird was killed at the English and Welsh Grounds light-vessel (Bristol Channel) at 2 a.m. on the 14th/15th. Further arrivals would appear to have taken place about the 18th and 26th of May and during the first week in June, but it is not possible to say anything more definite with regard to them. Eggs were found in Hampshire on the 25th of May and in Surrey on the 26th. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECORDS. April arethe: Wilts. ws 16th. Oxford. ct 17th. Yorkshire. 133 April 20th. Gloucester. i 22nd. Surrey. Fe 29th. Derby. 55 30th. Yorkshire (increase). May Ist. Sussex. es ord. Devon. im 6th. Hants, Northampton, Lanark. hs 8th. Dorset. 5 9th. Kent. i 10th. Cheshire. - 11th. Suffolk, Anglesey. < 12th. Somerset, Essex, Herts, Worcester, Nor- folk. 3 13th. Brecknock. » 14th/15th. Somerset light. < 15th. Cambridge, Lancashire. * 16th. Wilts, Glamorgan, Merioneth. af 17th. Cardigan, Cumberland. 3 18th. Scilly Isles, Leicester. = 19th. Northumberland. is 25th. Hants (eggs). n 26th. Hants and Merioneth (slight increase). Surrey (eggs). = 27th. Pembroke. “, 28th. Glamorgan (slight increase). June 6th. Suffolk (great increase). 134 THE WRYNECK. Tynx torquilla (L.). Tue records relating to this species were mostly of solitary birds, and hence not very helpful in the elucidation of its migratory movements. It seems to have arrived on the south-eastern portion of our coast-lines. The first arrival noted was in Berkshire on the 17th of March, and single birds were reported from Kent, Hamp- shire and Berkshire on the 20th, 25th and 27th, and from Somersetshire on the 29th. oth & 13th. = 19th. Dec. 22nd. 263 Barcombe (Sussex), decrease. N.W. Suffolk, majority left. Sutton Coldfield (Warwick), one seen, Bloxworth (Dorset), a pair seen. St. Kilda, one seen. Bosham (Sussex), two flying EH. Bosham, parties numbering 100 in all flying N. 3.30 to 5.30 P.M. last seen. Oswestry (Shropshire), three seen; Sussex coast, thirty seen. Felstead (Essex), many. Hanois Lt. (Guernsey), one. Lerwick (Shetland), one seen, Hayling Island (Hants), one seen. Felstead, all gone: nr. Falmouth (Cornwall), one seen. Scarborough { Yorkshire), one shot. THE LAND-RAIL (Crex pratensis). Oakamoor (Staffordshire), local birds left. Bass Rock (Forth), one found dead; Yarmouth (Nor- folk), one under telegraph-wires. Oswestry (Shropshire), one or two seen daily about that date. Bardsey Lt. (Carnarvon), twenty seen, twelve killed. Yarmouth, one found dead. N. Cotes (Lincoln), six seen. Brede (Sussex), one, passing. Langstone Harbour (Hants), one, passing. Oakamoor, one passing; Langstone, one. Ciliau Aeron (Cardigan), one. seen; Oswestry, last seen. Fair Isle (Shetland), noted. Ruston (Norfolk), seven seen. Stornoway (Outer Hebrides), noted. North Ronaldsay (Orkney), noted. Camerton (W. Cumberland), one killed. THE WATER-RAIL (Rallus aquaticus) Aug. 5th. » 20th/21st. Oct. 3rd. 6 9th. Ciliau Aeron (Cardigan), one shot. Bardsey Lt. (Carnarvon), twelve; S. Bishop It. (Pembroke), one. Yarmouth (Norfolk), one found dead. S. Yorkshire coast, one seen, 204 Octinyn LOth: N.E. Lincolnshire coast, one seen. » 17th/18th. Skerries Lt. (Anglesey), two. », 18th/19th.. Spurn Head Lt. (Yorkshire), one; Bardsey Lt., six; S. Bishop Lt., one. » 20th/21st. Little Ross Lt. (Kirkcudbright), one. 21st. Countess Wear (Devon), one seen, tired. » 29th/380th. Kentish Knock Lt.-v. (45 miles EK. by N. from the mouth of the Thames), several, Nov. 8th. Isle of May (Fife), one. "ERO | Storia om », 2st & 80th. Langstone Harbour (Sussex), one seen. », 2lst/22nd. S. Bishop Lt., two. 5 24th. Tiree (Argyll), one seen. », 26th/27th. Lynmouth Foreland Lt. (N. Devon), one. Dee. 7th. Sule Skerry (Orkney), one. » 14th/l5th. Skerries Lt., one. THE RINGED PLOVER C#£yialitis hiaticola). July 25th. Breydon (Norfolk), some arrived. 55 30th. Largo Bay (Fife), large numbers. Aug. 8rd to 10th. Cheshire, passing. 5 5th. Breydon, some arrived. » Oth/6th. Suffolk, many passing at midnight. a 8th. Breydon, many arrived. B 12th. Sutfolk coast, many passing south. 19th. Sule Skerry (Orkney), passing. 20th. Breydon, many arrived. 26th & 27th. Balgray Dam (Clyde), twenty. on 29th. Hants coast, small flocks passing. Sept. Ist & 2nd. Hants coast, large numbers passing. », 3rd to 80th, Hants coast, small numbers passing. 23rd. Hants coast, about thirty. ” ” “ 24th. Sussex coast, passing. Oct. Ist. Suffolk ccast, one passing. * 29th. Sussex coast, nine passing. Nov. 29th & 30th. Hants coast, large numbers. THE GOLDEN PLOVER (Charadrius pluvialis). The first record of a migratory movement came from North Ronaldsay (Orkney), where arrivals were noted on the 30th of June. Further arrivals at the same point took place on the 4th of July and at the Butt of Lewis (Outer Hebrides) between the 22nd and 26th, while a large flock was reported at Stornoway on the 31st. In August, a flock 265 of about fifty was noted in Northumberland on the 19th, some were heard passing over the town of Shrewsbury on the nights of the 19th and 20th, and passing birds were observed at Kirkwall (Orkney) on the 26th and in Cumberland on the 27th. On the 80th and 51st numbers arrived in Cheshire. At the Butt of Lewis Light some were seen at the lantern at 11 p.m. on the 18th. In September, Golden Plovers were heard at St. Kilda on the 3rd, a flock of twenty was seen on the 8th and other arrivals were noted on the 21st, 28th and 30th. From Balgray Dam (Clyde) about three hundred were reported on the 24th and a large flock was seen in York- shire on the following day. On the 8th a fiock of about a hundred arrived on the N.E. coast of Lincolnshire from over the sea, and about fifty were observed on the shore at the same place on the 12th. In Cheshire an observer reported numbers in his district throughout the month. In October, arrivals were recorded at St. Kilda on the 2nd, 4th and 6th, they were abundant at North Unst (Shetland) on the 15th and in large flocks at Deerness (Orkney) on the 19th. In Tiree (Areyll) there were large numbers between the 5th and 8th and again on the 24th. In Yorkshire considerable numbers were noted going (apparently) to the east at 9 p.m. on the 13th and 14th, and on the 8rd large numbers were reported from Norfolk. In Essex a few were observed going south-east on the 6th, about two hundred in the same direction on the 19th and stragglers to the north and north-east all through the day on the 22nd. The only light-record for October was one at the Chicken tock Light (Isle of Man) on the 16th/17th. In November, small numbers were noted on passage at Fair Isle (Shetland) up to the 15th and great numbers at the East Neuk of Fife on the 21st. In Cheshire a great increase in numbers took place on the 13th, about three hundred were observed in Devon on the 7th and large numbers arrived in Kent between the 20th and 26th, and again on the 27th. In Essex flocks of varying size occurred throughout the month, and large numbers all through December. THE GREY PLOVER (Squatarola helvetica). July 17th. Brampton (Cumberland), two flying W. 95 20th. Brampton, one flying W. » 28th/29th. St. Leonards-on-Sea (Sussex), flock fiying FE. at 11.55 P.M. Aug. 18th/19th. York, flock passing, 10 p.m. Sept. 15th. Fairlie (Ayr), two seen. Y 25th, Fairlie, six seen. a 26th. Aberlady (Haddington), three seen. 266 Oct. 4th & 6th. Yarmouth (Norfolk), flocks arrived. », 6th to 16th. 8. Yorkshire coast, many seen, no marked movement. 7th. Brampton, a flock flying E. » 9th/10th. Anvil Point Lt. (Dorset), one. », 18th/14th. York, a large flock flying W. at 9 P.M. ”? . 15th. Largo Bay (Fife), one arrived; Cambridge, one pass- ing 6.30 P.M. + 17th. Balcomie (I. Fife), two arrived. bs 25rd. Eden mouth (Fife), twelve arrived. ; 28th. Cresswell (Northumberland coast), several seen. al 29th. Littlehampton (Sussex), one seen. 50th. Selsey Bill (Sussex), flock of 14 flying 8. THE LAPWING (Vanellus vulgaris). The light-keeper at Bardsey (Carnarvon) reported that several Lap- wings had arrived on the island by the 30th of July, and an observer in Yorkshire recorded a large arrival on the 21st of August. On the 10th of September migration began to be noticed in the northern isles and on the coasts of Scotland, and was recorded from Fair Isle, Sule Skerry, the Pentland Skerries, the Butt of Lewis and Tarbatness, all through September and October and up to the 17th of November. On the 15th and 20th of September a few Lapwings were seen going north-west on the Lincolnshire coast. In Suffolk large flocks were noted on the coast on the 10th and 21st and some arrived there from the south-east on the 23rd and 25th, while on the latter date a flock was observed to fly out to sea in an easterly direction and return to the shore again. aa aire Set each 6/- Avium Generum Index Alphabeticus. 1899 ...... 2/6 USING S11 6 aR aaa Pie are: each 6/- Report on the Immigrations of Sumner Residents in: fhe Sprae-of 1905, 1906. <2... 2. ae 6/- | Index to Bulletin, Vols. I.-XV. (1892-1905). 1906. 10/- (Sestion" b906507)51907 22), A 2 -6/- Report on the Immigrations of Sumnier Kesidents im aa the Spring Or IG06\5 LOOT. 2.5.2) eae eis ORE (Session: 1Q07—-O8)2 1908. 04)... 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