Identifier: bulletinofbritis22brit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: British Ornithologists' Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals
Publisher: (England) : The Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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om Essex and Shropshire ; while inLancashire and Yorkshire the species was said to be fairlynumerous. During the first week of JMay records were sent in fromthe western counties and from Wales. Thejirst immigration was observed on May the <Sth, whentwo individuals were secured Irom amongst a fairly largeflight of other species at St. Catherines light, Hants. On the following day. May the 9th, an increase was re-ported in the numl)er of birds in Herts and Oxford. On May the lOtli the number in Herts had decreased, butliad increased in Derby ; and on May the 12tb the recordsfrom Norfolk, Radnor, Staffordshire, (.heshire and York-shire indicated fairly clearly that this immigration had spreadout like a fan as the birds proceeded northwards. The second well-marked immigration reached our shoresduring the early hours of May the 13th, when enormousnumbers were seen at the Start light, Devon, and St, Cathe-rines lightj Pliints, but none were observed at the Eddystone F 74 GARDE NMVARBLER.
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75 light, Cornwall. The records are iasiilHcient to show howthese birds were distributed over tlie country, but it is cer-tain that they had not reached Radnor and Derby on thefollowing day (May the 14th), as in both these counties adecrease in the number of birds was noted; it is probablethat by the 15th some had reached Glamorgan, Staffordshireand Lancashire. On May the 14th a tldrd immigration reached the Hantslights, and these birds were no doubt the forerunners ofa much larger wave which reached the western half of oursouth coast on May the 15th, when hundreds of Garden-Warblers were seen at the Eddystone, Start and St. Cathe-rines lights. A fourth immigration reached the Hants lights on themorning of the IGth, and on the following morning yetanother flight, or perhaps the tail-end of the preceding,reached the Sussex coast. By May the 17th the birds of thisspecies had settled down in the southern counties, for nestsand eggs were found on that date both in Hants andSurrey. On the

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