280 BRITISH BIRDS. 



B.B., No. 3775, marked by Messrs. Robinson and Smalley 

 at Ravenglass, Cumberland, on June lOtli, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Lancaster on January 2nd, 

 1911. Reported by Mr. C. Griffiths. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull {Larus fuscus). — B.B., No. 

 9811, marked by Mr. W. I. Beaumont at Black Isle, 

 Lynn of Lorn, Argyllshire, on July 4th, 1910. Recovered 

 nine miles from Aveiro, Portugal, on December 15th, 

 1910. Mr. Beaumont took great trouble in identifying 

 (by marking down the parent-birds) this and other 

 nestlings ringed at the same time, but as both Herring- 

 and Lesser Black-backed Gulls were breedmg on the 

 same island he could not be positively certain of his 

 identification, although he thinks he made no mistake. 

 Reported by Mr. W. C. Tait and Mr. J. D. Pereira da 

 Graca. We are most grateful to Mr. W. C. Tait for 

 the great trouble he has taken in making the ringing 

 scheme as widely kno^^■n as possible in Portugal, and for 

 the great help he has given us in securing full details of 

 this and other Portuguese records. 



Woodcock (Scolopox rusticula). — A Woodcock with a ring 

 marked A. Cong, 10, was reported by Mr. W. C. Tait 

 as having been shot in the parish of Covide, about 

 forty miles north of Oporto, Portugal, on December 28th, 

 1910. Lord Ardilaun informs me that this bird was 

 hatched in the woods at Cong, co. Galway, in the spring 

 of 1910, and was ringed just as it was about to fly. 



A MARKED TEAL. 



On the evening of December 20th, 1910, when " flighting " 

 I shot a Teal {Nettion crecca) drake at Glenorchard, near 

 Glasgow, which had on its left leg a ring inscribed " H. Chr. C. 

 Mortensen. Viborg. Danmark. 1045 Y." I wrote to Dr. C. B. 

 Ticehurst, who has now kindly informed me that the Teal 

 was ringed by Herr Mortensen on October 19th, 1909, at Isle 

 Eano, south-west Denmark. It was caught in the duck- 

 decoy there that morning, and liberated the same evening at 

 8 p.m. James Bartholomew. 



[Another of these Teal, marked at the same place as the 

 above on October 18th, 1909, was reported as having been 

 shot on a branch of Milford Haven on December 2nd, 1910 

 (Field, 24. xii. 1910, p. 1214). For previous records see 

 Vol. III., pp. 251, 252.— Eds.] 



