uly's weather was cloudy and wet, and radier warm, particularly in die second half, and diis conьnued into die firsl Len days of August Generally, August was unsetded and windy, and very wet: in fact, the wettest over England and Wales since 1956 and ovcr Scodand and Ireland since 1985. Vigorous westerlies dominated the early autumn and continued until mid September, which again was a cloudy month throughout Britain and Ireland, with heavy falls of rain. October was marked by unusually frequent northerly winds, and for central England was the fifdi-coldest October this Century, and the coldest since 1974 for Britain and Ireland as a whole.After the non-stop excitement of the previous four months (Brit. Birds 85: 636647), autumn 1992 proved generally unrcmarkable. August was noted for Britain's second R e d - n e c k e d Stint. Galidris ruficollis, third Yellow Warbier Dendroica petechia and fourth Rьppell's Warbier Sylvia meppellii (plate 104), a Bridled T e r n Stema anaethetus, a Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin Cercotrichas galaГ¤otes and a G r e e n H e r o n Butorides virescens. September will largely be remembered for Britain's second H o o d e d W a r b i e r Wilsonia citrina, a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri in Ireland, and a tremendous passage of Black T e r n s Chlidonias niger. There was an encouraging Start to October, with a good passage of easterly vagrants, including an obliging Siberian T h r u s h Zjaothera