Swallow 43 Cuckoo 38 Chiff-chaff 30 Swift 30 Willow Wren 29 Sandmartin 27 Whitethroat 26 Blackcap 25 Redstart 25 Flycatcher 24 Landrail 24 Nightingale 23 Martin 23 Tree Pipit 21 Sedge Warbler 17 Yellow Wagtail 16 Wryneck 16 Nightjar 16 Wheatear 15 Whinchat 15 Lesser Whitethroat 14 Grasshopper Warbler 12 Turtle Dove 10 Common Sandpiper 10 Wood Wren 9 Pied Flycatcher 9 Red-backed Shrike 9 Garden Warbler 8 Reed Warbler 3 Various 78 (645) The first Swallow was seen, not as might be supposed in the south or south-east of England, but four miles south of Glasgow, on the 2nd of March, and Mr. Robert Gray states that this is the earliest record of its arrival in Scotland. It is, indeed, an exceptionally early arrival, for nearly a month expired before another was seen at Cromer, on the 31st of the same month, and six weeks elapsed between the first and second appearance of the bird in Scotland. On the 1st April, with a S.E. wind, this harbinger of spring arrived at Great Cotes, in Lincolnshire, and on the 3rd of that month was noticed simultaneously at Nottingham and Taunton. From the 6th of April the arrival of Swallows was pretty general until the 13th, when they were first noticed in Ireland at Ballina, co. Mayo, and on the following day at Glasnevin, Dublin, and at Bray, in the county of Wicklow. The temperature then at Bray was 53°, and the wind S.W. In these localities and dates there is nothing to indicate anything like a precise line of immigration; on the contrary, the birds first appeared where they were least expected. The prevalence of gales, however, at that particular season doubtless operated to retard their progress, and induced them to linger about sheltered localities where food could be obtained. Mr. Wm. Jeffery, who is well situated for observation on the Sussex coast, between the downs and the sea, remarked that most of the spring migrants were several days later than usual in their arrival, and the Swallow in particular not only came later, but lingered longer than is its wont in his neighbourhood. A single bird of this species was seen by him, flying round a steam threshing-machine, on the 10th of December. “Whether it had been disturbed,” he says, “from hybernation in the oatrick which was being