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1912, reaching Helsingfors, Finland, in April. Among 

 other recoveries reported from abroad the following 

 may be mentioned : a Teal ringed in Staffordshire in 

 autumn, 1910, found at Dalarne, Sweden, in July, 1911 ; 

 a Starling ringed in Berkshire in November, 1911, found 

 in Ostfriesland in April, 1912, and another ringed in 

 Lincolnshire in October, 1910, found in Holland in 

 October, 1912, and a Whinchat ringed in Dumfriesshire 

 in June, 1912, found in Gironde in September. A Pied 

 Wagtail ringed in Sussex as a nesthng in June, 1912, 

 and reported from Gironde in October, is of particular 

 interest when compared wdth a record of one ringed in 

 the same place in June, 1910, and reported from Portugal 

 in the following winter. 



Some of the StarUngs, Blackbirds, Song-Thrushes, 

 Redshanks, Curlews, Lapwings, Woodcock, and Black- 

 headed Gulls ringed as nestlings in the summer in the 

 north of England and Scotland, have been found in the 

 autumn or winter in Ireland, while other individuals 

 have been recovered near at home, and yet others of 

 Song-Thrush, Lapwing, and Black-headed Gull in France. 



Attention should also be drawn to further records of 

 Cormorants migrating to the French coast in autumn 

 from Ireland and Cornwall. 



The records of Starhngs, both nestlings and adults, 

 ringed in Kent and returning to nest in the same place 

 one and two years afterwards, are most interesting, 

 while we have had two records from Avhich it would 

 appear that sometimes in any case birds nest at a con- 

 siderable distance from their birthplace. One of these 

 Avas a Swallow ringed as a nestling near Southampton 

 in 1911 which was found at Mill Hill in June, 1912, and 

 the other a Black-headed Gull ringed as a nesthng in 

 North Wales in 1909 and found in a gullery in Yorkshire 

 in June, 1912.^ 



*A large number of " Recoveries " recently reported are unavoid- 

 ably held over for want of space, and will be published in our 

 next issue. 



