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to the mild open weather, migration was very slow during the autumn of 1900 along the east coast, and I believe it was not much better in the spring; but I was away in the South of France during April and May.

I take the opportunity of comparing the arrivals of spring birds noted there with the dates taken in East Norfolk by the Rev. M.C. Bird.* My dates are for the Var Department, all of them made within sight of the Mediterranean, and about seventy

Zool. 4th ser. vol. V., April, 1901.