i6o THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Birds Ringing Scheme." In this Report we can only deal 

 with those notes which are directly connected with Scottish 

 Ornithology, but we recommend everyone who is interested 

 in migration to study all the returns. 



A Starling, marked at the Mull of Galloway on 26th 

 February 1914, was recovered at Gretna on 26th November 

 191 5 (3- i^- 266), and a Swallow marked near Glasgow 

 on 29th June 1914 was recovered near Skipton, Yorks, 

 on 23rd May 191 5 (3. ix. 268). There are a good many 

 returns of Mallard marked at Stranraer as adults ; one 

 marked on 27th February 191 5 was recovered at Ardmaal, 

 Sweden, on ist August 191 5 (3. ix. 269), while three others 

 marked on 17th and 27th February 191 5 were got at the 

 place of ringing on 22nd August, i8th September, and 

 4th October 191 5 (3. ix. 269). Four others marked on 

 28th February 1914 were recovered at the same place 

 in January and February 191 5 (3. ix. 43); while three 

 others marked on 9th and loth October 191 5 were recovered 

 at the place of ringing in November (3. ix. 269). A 

 Wigeon, also ringed at Stranraer, 31st January 1914, as 

 an adult, was recovered there on 23rd January 191 5 (3. 

 ix. 43) ; and of two Teal marked there, both being adult 

 and both ringed on 17th February 191 5, one was recovered 

 in Montgomeryshire on 24th September, and the other was 

 retaken at Stranraer in November (3. ix. 269). A Cor- 

 morant ringed in Sutherland on i6th June 1914, was 

 recovered at Stornoway (O.H.), in February 191 5 (3. ix. 

 43), and another bird of the same species, marked on the 

 Fame Islands in August 191 3, was recovered in Hadding- 

 tonshire in November 191 5 (3. ix. 269). The migrations 

 of Lapwings and Woodcock to Ireland, in winter, with 

 which we are now so familiar, are again much in evidence. 

 Lapwings marked in Moray and Sutherland in June were 

 recovered in Cork and Co. Limerick in January and 

 February (3. ix. 44 and 270) ; while Woodcock ringed in 

 Stirlingshire, Dumfriesshire, and Kirkcudbrightshire, were 

 recovered in Ireland in January, February, November, and 

 December (3. ix. 45, 46, and 270), in two cases, both 

 Dumfriesshire birds, three years after ringing. In addition 



