

{Authors are responsible for nomenclature used.) Ljj LIBRARY- 



The Scottish Naturalist 



No. io.] 1912 [October 



ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY BIRD-MIGRATION 

 INQUIRY: FIRST INTERIM REPORT (1909-12). 



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



{Continued from page 174.) 



Corncrake or Land-rail {Crex crex, L.). 



Case 249, ring A.U. 14297 : — 



$rd Sept. 1910: caught, marked, and released as an adult 

 bird in a harvest field on Crichie Farm, Inverurie, Aber- 

 deenshire, Scotland. (Mr T. Tait.) 



Sept. 191 1 : "killed by a sportsman" at Naillat, Canton de 

 Dun-le-Palleteau, Creuse, France. (Mr De Forger in 

 Le Saint-Hubert Illustrc for 1st Oct. 191 1 — no more 

 exact date than " recently " given ; also the Bulletin 

 Mensuel de la Societc Ccntrale des Chasseurs for 15th 

 Oct. 191 1. English newspaper translations of these notices 

 gave the number wrongly as 14327 and 1432 F, but the 

 originals had it correctly.) 



Coot (Fulica atra, L.). 



Case 309, ring A.U. 17462 :— 



1th May 191 1: caught, marked, and released on a pond on 

 Skipwith Common, near York, England. (Mr V. G. F. 

 Zimmermann.) 



gth Feb. 1912 : found dead at Coneysthorpe, Malton, York- 

 shire. (Mr W. L. Jefferson : bird's foot reported injured.) 



Partridge (Perdix perdix, L.). 



[For records of imported birds, see "Appendix."] 

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