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BRITISH BIRDS. 



and the Dunbuy Rock, Cruden Bay). Of these the 

 following have been recorded : — 



The distinct evidence of considerable southward move- 

 ment contained in these records, is of interest when 

 compared with the evidence of stationary habits obtained 

 by marking large numbers of this species at the colony 

 on Memmert, at the south-eastern corner of the North 

 Sea (Thienemann, Journal filr Ornithologie, 1910, p .632) ; 

 and we have ourselves a record of a Herring-Gull (A.U. 

 12140), marked as a young bird at Loch Aan Eilean. 

 the Lewis, Outer Hebrides, by Mr. Andrew Harley, 

 on June 7th, 1910, and shot at Stornoway (Lewis) 

 at the beginnmg of December, 1910, as reported by 

 Mr. F. A. Lowe. A record of a different kind, but for 

 the same species, is that of a bird in first plumage caught 

 by Messrs. L. N. G. Ramsay and A. G. Davidson on the 

 night of October 3rd, 1910, on the shore a few miles 

 north of Aberdeen, along with a number of others which 

 were dazzled by bright acetylene cycle -lamps. On May 



