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EARLY SPRING MIGRATIONS.
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Castle Rock. In two of these places I did not see one on the 5th and 6th.

Wheatears appeared much earlier on the west coast. Mr. G.H. Caton Haigh wrote to me:—"On the 21st (March) we had the heaviest snowstorm that has occurred here for years; in the afternoon the snow was eight inches deep. In the midst of this storm the first Wheatears appeared, four or five, all males; they frequented the seaweed-covered rocks in company with scores of Meadow-Pipits."