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of Flores, Azores, on February 11th, 1912. Reported by Mr. J. 

 Mackay, through Mr. W. C. Tait, who has kmdly made the scheme 

 known among friends (as well as in the Press) in the Azores. 

 Common Gull {Larus canus). — B.B., No, 21998, marked by Mr. W. I. 

 Beaumont, at Dvmstaffnage Isle, Loch Etive, Argyllshire, on 

 Jime 26th, 1911, as a nestling. Recovered at Newshot Isle, 

 opposite Clyde Bank, five miles from Glasgow, on February 17th, 

 1912. Reported by Mr. J. L. Robertson. 



B.B., No. 9845, marked by Mr. W. I. Beaumont at Stirk Island, 

 Lynn of Lorn, off Lismore, Argyllshire, on July 8th, 1910, as a 

 nestling. Recovered at Stromacroibh, Lismore, Argyllshire, about 

 the third week in February, 1912. Reported by the Oban Times. 



MARKED ABROAD AND RECOVERED IN ENGLAND. 



Black-headed Gulls {Larus ridihundus). — Rossitten, No. 5888, marked 

 as a nestling in Schleswig on June 24th, 1911. Recovered at 

 Brandesburton, Holderness, Yorkshire, on January 15th, 1912. 

 Reported by Mr. S. Duncan. 



Rossitten, No. 6839, marked as a nestling at Rossitten, Germany, 

 on July 18th, 1911. Recovered at Eastbourne, Sussex, during 

 first week of February, 1912. Reported by the Daily Mail. 

 Rossitten, No. 5968, marked as a nestling in Schleswig on June 

 25th, 1911. Recovered at Heme Bay, Kent, end of January or 

 beginning of February, 1912. Reported by the Angler's News. 

 Rossitten, No. 1620, marked in Schleswig in the summer of 1909. 

 Recovered at Chichester, Sussex, on February 1st, 1911. 

 Museum Leiden, No. 644, marked as a nestling at Kerkererve, 

 Zeeland, Netherlands, on June 18th, 1911. Recovered at South- 

 ampton, Hampshire, end of January or begimiing of February, 

 1912. Reported by Cage Birds. 



Common Gull {Larus cawus). — Rossitten, No. 4975, marked at Liibsck, 

 north Germany, on July 4th, 1911. Recovered at Portsmouth, 

 Hampshire, on February 3rd, 1912. Reported by Mr. S. Webster. 



REMARKABLE JOURNEYS TAKEN BY 



BLACK-HEADED GULLS. 



For a Yorkshire-bred Black -headed Gull to reach the Azores 

 {see above) seems a remarkable journey, but the species is 

 said to be a common visitor to the Azores (c/. Novitates ZooL, 

 XII., p. 102) and these birds must come from Europe. Recently 

 I have received a letter from Mr. St. Eval Atkinson, Barbados, 

 West Indies, to the effect that in November; 1911, a gull was 



