192 1.] Bird-Migration hy the Marking Method. 511 



X.— SUMMARY OF RECORDS OF OTHER SPECIES. 



SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica Linn.). 

 There are three records of birds of this typically migratory 

 species returning to the localities of marking in the following- 

 seasons. Two were marked as nestlings and one as an adult, 

 the details being as follows : — 



Case 15 : Caught, marked, and released as an adult bird at a farm in 

 Kent on 29 June, 1909; recaught at the same farm on 

 14 June, 1910. 



Case 201 : Marked as a nestling in Kincardineshire on 21 August, 

 1910; found with a broken wing in the same village 

 on 22 May, 1911. 



Case 483 : Marked as a nestling at Beaulieu, Hampshire, on 6 Sep- 

 tember, 1912; caught in an outhouse, where it was 

 believed to be nesting, at Ringwood, Hampshire, about 

 eighteen miles from its birthplace, on 2 May, 1913. 



There are also two records of birds marked as nestlings 

 being recorded from the places of marking in their first 

 season : in one instance ((Jase 871) the date of recovery was 

 as late as the 30th of October. 



It would be of special interest to compare the winter- 

 quarters of British-bred Swallows with those of Swallows 

 from other countries, in view of the statement made by 

 Hartert (Vog. der palaarkt. Fauna, i. p. 801) that " doubt- 

 less the most northerly dwellers migrate further south 

 while the breeding birds of the Atlas Mountain region 

 probably go only to the oases of the Sahara for the winter." 

 Unfortunately the proportion of records of value must 

 always be very small, although Witherby (26) has had three 

 marked Swallows of British origin reported to him from 

 South Africa, 



GREENFINCH (Chloris Moris Linn.). 

 The only record revealing any movement is of a bird 

 (Case 311) caught and marked at Inverurie, Aberdeen- 

 shire, on 23 August, 1910, and recaught at Melvich, 

 Sutherland, about 12 February, 1912. The remaining 



