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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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hat an extensive immigration hadoccurred that morninii. Some of the birds must have ofonenorth, as on March the 27th individuals were reported forthe first time from Glamorgan and Merioneth. On March the 28th the records showed that this s))ecies waspassing through the Welsh border-counties and had reachedStaffordshire and Yorkshire, but the most important recordswere from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Worcester. The next day (March the 29th) the species was noticed tohave decreased in Devonshire, but to have increased inDorset, Glamorgan, Leicester and Shropshire. On Marchthe 80th there was again an increase in the south-westernand southern counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Hants,Sussex and Surrey, and a few were noted from Brecon,Nottingham, Lancashire and Yorkshire. The birds in the southern counties passed on northwards,and hj April the 1st Chiftchatfs were generally distributedthroughout the midland counties. On the following daythey were recorded from Scotland. 82 CHIFFCHAFF.
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83 On April the 4th another innnigration reached Devon,Dorset and Somerset ; this was followed by a furtherimmioration into Somerset on the Gth ; but the subsequentmovements of this flight cannot be traced. The main immigration of this species took place betweenthe 11th and 16th of April, when numbers of birds landedbetween Hants and Dorset, and their course can be tracedthrough the country as far north as Westmoreland. Betweenthe 21st and the 23rd there was another considerable immi-gration in Dorset and Hants, and this was followed by thefirst records from the eastern counties—Essex, Bedford,Cambridge and Norfolk. The first nest was recorded in Berkshire on the 27th,and the following day a nest with two eggs was found inGlamorgan. It is probable that further small immigrations occurred,notably in Dorset and Wiltshire, between the 27th of Apriland the 1st of May, and were followed by an increase inShropshire on the ord, in Yorkshire on the 4th, and in Cam-bridge on the Gth ; but th

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