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20th, 1911, it was re-caught at Nap, Burray, Orkney, 

 by Mr. David Sinclair, who turned round suddenly and 

 caught this bird from among those following him as 

 he worked among the turnips. Reported by Mr. W. J. 

 Harcus in the Aberdeen Free Press, May 26th, 1911. 



A Black-headed Gull (Larus ridihundus : A.U. 13179), 

 marked on July 12th, 1910, by Mr. Lewis N. G. Ramsay, 

 on the Sands of Forvie, xlberdeenshire, was killed near 

 Bayon, Gironde, France, about January 18th, 1911, as 

 reported by the Mayor of Bayon and by Mr. T. Ludovic. 

 Several unimportant short-distance records have also 

 been obtained for this species, including records of three 

 birds out of fifty marked in 1910 at a colony near York, 

 by Mr. H. R. Davidson, and recorded in the same autumn 

 from Hull (2) and Newcastle respectively. 



A Guillemot {Uria troile : A.U. 11230), one of a number 

 of sea-fowl marked as young birds on the Dunbuy Rock, 

 Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, on July 11th, 1910, by Mr. 

 Lewis N. G. Ramsay and others, was shot on November 

 29th, 1910, at Marstrand, a dozen miles north of 

 Gothenburg, Sweden, as reported by Dr. Jagerskiold 

 of Gothenburg Museum, where the bird is now preserved. 



Turning now to the Passe res, we find that they make 

 up the majority of the birds we have marked, but that 

 they have afforded an extremely small proportion of 

 " returns." In fact there are very few outstanding 

 records. 



A Song-Thrush (Turdus inusicus : A.U. 14299), one 

 of a brood of five marked in the nest on June 4th, 

 1910, at Skene House, Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, by Miss 

 D. Hamilton, was shot on November 6th, 1910, at Leiria, 

 Portugal, " by a party of hunters." Several Portuguese 

 newspapers containing notice of the event were sent to 

 me, and later I received the ring and fuU details from 

 Mr. Ruy Ferreira. 



We have a second long-distance record for a Passerine 

 bird — in this case a Starling, and reported from farther 

 north. This Starling (Sturnus vulgaris : A.U. 16480) 



