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Case 201, 1 ring A.U. 7024: — 



21st Aug. 1910 : marked as a nestling about eleven days old at 

 Durris, Kincardineshire, Scotland. (Mr A, G. Davidson.) 



22 nd May 191 1 : found with a broken wing in a byre at Darn- 

 ford, Durris. (Mr Duguid, through Mr A. Macdonald.) 

 Case 257, male, ring A.U. 67 iM : — 



i$thjuly 191 1 : marked as a nestling at Wyllieholes, Cornhill, 

 Banffshire, Scotland. (Mr J. Simpson.) 



2>rd Sept. 191 1 : found dead in the yard of Scott's Mill, Portsoy, 

 Banffshire. (Mr J. Watt : sex of bird ascertained by 

 dissection.)' 2 



Meadow Pipit (An thus pratensis, L.). 

 Case 275, ring A.U. 985B : — 



20th Sept. 191 1 : caught, marked, and released near Bromford, 

 Warwickshire, England. (Mr T. Malpas : the bird was 

 a young male of the year, according to the marker, who has 

 had thirty years' experience of bird-catching and is confi- 

 dent of being able to judge this from outward appearance.) 

 jt/i Dec. 191 1 (about): shot near Lisbon, Portugal. (Mr J. da 

 Silva Santos : no exact date, but the leg and ring were brought 

 on 9th December to the office of the newspaper Seculo, a 

 cutting from which was sent to us by Mr W. C. Tait.) 



Yellowhammer (Emberiza citri?iella i L.). 

 Case 216, female, ring A.U. 58H : — 



2$th July 1910: caught in a trap, marked, and released at 



Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. (Mr W. W. Nicol.) 

 ^rd July 191 1 : killed by a cat at the same place. (Marker.) 

 [See also "Appendix" for records of an escaped cage-bird of 

 this species.] 



1 This Case has been inadvertently quoted under STARLING by the authors of 

 the Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1911, p. 26. 



2 [It seems advisable to make a second exception to our rule of not including 

 imperfect records, inasmuch as the following case has already received considerable 

 publicity. In The Spectator for 15th June 1912, Mr W. D. Knight reported that 

 at Slinford, Horsham, Sussex, England, he caught, and subsequently released, a 

 swallow bearing a ring inscribed "Aberdeen U.N.M. 759." The three letters 

 were doubtless merely a misreading of the word " Univ," and there was no " M " 

 on the ring at all— certainly it was not ring "A.V. 759 M," nor was it "759" 

 alone, so a figure must have been overlooked. Probably it was either "7596" 

 or "7597," which were swallows marked as nestlings at Slinford on 29th June 

 191 1 ; but the case cannot be regarded as scientifically established.] 



(To be continued.) 



