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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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eem tohave remained. Apparently the main body of this species began to arriveon April the 11th, for on that night hundreds were noted atSt. Catherines light, Hants, while small flights were seen onthe 12th at the Eddystone light, Cornwall, and again atSt. Catherines on the 12th and 13th. A larger flight wasobserved at the Start light, Devon, on the 14th. These birdsapparently helped to augment the numbers in the southerncounties. This immigration reached its height on the 15th,when vast numbers of Willow-Warblers, in company withother species, reached the southern coast between Cornwalland Hants. The light-keeper at St. Catherines reported thatWillow-Warblers were the most plentiful, and were rest-ing everywhere about the lantern. On that night no lessthan 78 were killed at three lighthouses, viz. at the Eddy-stone, Portland Bill and St. Catherines. This immigration continued on the night of the 16th, as isshown bv the returns from the St. Catherine;^ and Eddvstone ti8 WILLOW-WARBLER.
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89 lighthouses; but on the ITtli there were not nearly somany birds and only a few stray individuals were noted atSt. Catherines. On the 18th the species was noted at theHanois light, Channel Islands. It would appear from thereports of inland observers that after these waves ofimmigration an increase in the number of birds was notedin the southern and west-midland counties, bat not in theeast-midland and eastern counties. With regard to the north, the first arrivals were noted inCumberland on the 19th, in Northumberland on tlio 21st, andin Westmoreland on the 22nd. Large flights of AVillow-Warblers were observed atSt. Catherines on the 21st, and at Dungeness, Kent, on the22nd, and on the following days there was an increase inmany of the southern counties, while a slight increase wasnoted in some of the eastern and north-midland counties.On the 21st many passed through the Isle of Man. On the 24th a large flight was noted at St. Catherines andwas followed by a further immigration on t

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