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this list have been recorded by Mr Kennedy {Joe. cit.). I 

 shall be pleased to have the opportunity of adding to the 

 above records, and not merely for this area but for most 

 Scottish counties — for which purpose my address is 

 259 Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



Cumberland-bred Black-headed Gulls nesting in Scot- 

 land. — Apropos of the mention of ringing birds in the " Report on 

 Scottish Ornithology " number, it may be of interest to state that two 

 Black-headed Gulls {La?-us ridibundus)., bred and ringed in Cumber- 

 land by myself, were picked up dead in Scottish gulleries in the 

 nesting season and among the nests. The first was one which I 

 marked at Greystoke, Mid-Cumberland, which, two years and eleven 

 months afterwards, was found dead in the breeding season in a 

 guUery at Tentsmuir in Fife. The second I marked at Ravenglass 

 on the Cumberland coast. It was picked up dead one year and 

 eleven months afterwards, also in the nesting season, and among 

 the nests, in a gullery near Kirknewton, Midlothian. There is little 

 doubt but that both these birds were nesting in these gulleries. 

 Two other Cumberland-bred birds were found dead near Scottish 

 gulleries in the nesting season, and were possibly nesting there. 

 The first of these was a Ravenglass-bred bird, which, eleven months 

 later, was found dead in Dumfriesshire close to two gulleries, and 

 the second was a bird marked on Denton Fell, Cumberland, and 

 found dead thirteen months afterwards close to a gullery, also in 

 Dumfriesshire. 



It might be stated that three other Ravenglass-bred birds were 

 found dead among the nests in the breeding season in other 

 gulleries in England and Wales, as mentioned in my article in 

 British Birds, vol. viii., pp. 209-218, as follows: (i) In a gullery in 

 Delamere Forest, Cheshire, exactly one year afterwards; (2) in the 

 Llanfairpwll gullery, Anglesea, North Wales, one year and one 

 month afterwards; (3) in a gullery on Stanedge Moor, S.W. 

 Yorkshire, four years and one month afterwards. A fourth, marked 

 on the Llyn Mynyddlod gullery, Merionethshire, A\'ales, was found 

 dead three years later on a gullery at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. 

 Three Ravenglass-bred birds were found dead in their parent gullery 

 during the nesting season — two, two years, and the third three years 

 afterwards. —H. W. Robinson, Lancaster. 



