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days to two years and nine months. Two other individuals 

 wandered a few miles, and a third from Hampshire into Somerset. 

 The remaining three cases are of more interest, the details of which 

 are as follows : — 



Case 596 : ringed as a nestling at Udny, Aberdeenshire, in May 

 1913, and killed at the lantern of the Eddystone Lighthouse 

 during the night of February 27th/28th, 1914. 



Case 597 : ringed as a nestling at Beaulieu, Hampshire, in April 

 191 2, and killed at the lantern of St Catherine's Lighthouse, 

 Isle of Wight, on loth February 191 3. 



Case 613: a young bird rmged at Potterton, near Aberdeen, 

 in June 191 1, and captured at Arundel, near the coast of 

 Sussex, at the end of the following January. 



Blackbird, Turdiis merula, L. 



Of this species twenty-nine ringed specimens were recovered. 

 Of these, twenty-six were captured at the place of ringing. The 

 intervals which elapsed between the time of ringing and that of 

 recapture varied from three days to two years and five months. Of 

 the remaining three birds, one, ringed as a fledgling on 27th May 

 1 91 2, wandered from the Isle of May to Crail, on the coast of Fife, 

 where it was recovered in July 1913; while the other two, ringed 

 at Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, were afterwards captured in the same 

 county, only a few miles away. 



Redbreast, Erithacns (^Dandahis) ruhecitia (L.). 



The whole of the twenty-seven recovered birds of this species 

 were captured at the place of ringing, after a period of freedom 

 varying from one day to two years and one month. jNIany of the 

 birds were recaptured twice, and one individual nine times. 



Hedge-sparrow, Prunella modularis (L.). 



The records of this species are of little interest, inasmuch as the 

 whole of the forty-six recovered birds were captured at the place of 

 ringing. The only noteworthy feature is that many of the specimens 

 were recaptured on several occasions, one specimen being taken as 

 many as nine times. The longest period between ringing and 

 recapture was one year and eleven months. 



{To be continued^) 



