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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 47.] 1915 [November 



ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY BIRD-MIGRATION 

 INQUIRY: SECOND INTERIM REPORT (1912-14). 



By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., B.Sc, M.B.O.U. 



In presenting this second report on the work of our Bird- 

 Migration Inquiry, we have retained the title " Interim " 

 inasmuch as we still make no attempt at drawing conclusions 

 from our results, but restrict ourselves to a summary of such 

 records as have come to hand since the preparation of our 

 first report.^ 



The Inquiry continues to be conducted as a piece of 

 private research in the Natural History Department of the 

 University of Aberdeen, under the supervision of Professor 

 J. Arthur Thomson. Up to, but concluding with, the year 1914 

 the working expenses have been largely borne by a grant 

 from the Carnegie Trustees. We have again to express our 

 great indebtedness to the numerous co-operators, who have 



' C jr previous paper appeared in The Scottish Naturalist iox 19 12 

 and 19 1 3. Since then I have read a short note on our method before 

 the British Association (Zoology Section, Dundee Meeting, 1912), and 

 two of our co-operators have published papers relating to the Inquiry. 

 Dr Philip Gosse has given, in Bird Notes, vol. iii. (N.S.) p. 217, an account 

 of the work carried on by him on our behalf. Mr James Sword has 

 published a paper read before the Stirling Nat. Hist, and Archaeology 

 Sec. (1914), with special reference to the Woodcock-marking organised 

 by him. 



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