VOL. X.] RESULTS OF RINGIiNG. 217 



The Blackbird {Turdus m. mertila). 



There are twenty-one cases of Blackbirds ringed as 

 nestlings and recovered in winter. The proportion of 

 these which moved is very smaU, as will be seen 

 from the summary, compared to that in the Song-Thrush, 

 only 28 per cent, having gone away as compared to 50 

 per cent, in the Song-Thrush. Here again Ireland is 

 the most favoured wintermg place. 



We also have ten records of Blackbirds ringed as 

 nestlings and recovered in following summers. All these, 

 as in the cases of Song-Thrushes, were found at or near 

 the place of their birth — six in the followmg summer 

 and two each in the second and third summers. 



Totals and Percentagen. 



Total recovered. Near or at Home. Away. 

 Ringed as nestlings in 



England and Scotland 21 15 or 71-4% 6 or 28*5% 



Periods between Ringing and Recovery, 



Kefovered at Home. Recovered away. 



In following winter .... 7 5 



,, 2nd winter .... 3 1 



,, 3rd winter .... 1 — 



,, 4th winter .... 4 — 



Extent and Direction of Movements. 

 Recovered in Ireland, 3 from Dumfries-shire and Derbyshire, 

 ,, „ France, 1 from Lincolnshire. 

 ,, ,, Pembroke, 1 from StirUngshire. 



,, ,, Essex, I from Warwickshire. 



The Lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus). 



There are in all fifty -six cases of Lapwings ringed as 

 nestlings and recovered in subsequent winters. As the 

 number is a very fair one to work upon, and as the results 

 are markedly different, it is worth while to show the 

 returns for birds ringed in England and Scotland separately 

 though it must be admitted that many of the English 

 ones were ringed in northern counties. As will be seen 

 from the summary which follows of those ringed in 

 England, the percentage going away was only 57 as 

 compared to 82 per cent, of those ringed in Scotland. 

 As Lapwings usually move away from the actual spot 

 where they breed, I have taken one which travelled 



