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where the bird was found. I will then at once inform them 

 when and where the hird was ringed. 



Yours faithfully, 



H. F. WiTHERBY, 



Editor ' British Birds.' 

 32(3 High Ilolborn. 

 London, W.C. 



Extract from ^British Birds,' FeJjruari/ 1913. 



A Swallow Ringkd in Staffordshirk and Recoa''ered in Natal. 



The followinc>; letter has just reached me : — 



Grand Hotel, 



Utrecht, Natal, 

 " Witherby," •27th Decemhcr, 1912. 



High Holboru, London. 



Deab Sir, 



On December :?;Jrd a Swallow was caught in the faruihouse 

 of the farm " Roodeyand," 18 miles from this town, with a metal label 

 round its leg, with the words : Witherby, High Holboru, London, and 

 on the other side B.8.30. 



The farmer, Mr. J. Mayer, took the label off and has it in his pos- 

 session. As I am interested in birds of any sort and the migration of 

 same, I shall be glad to know if you receive this letter safely. 



Yours truly, 



C. H. Ruddock, Proprietor. 



The ring B.830 was put on an adult Swallow by Mr. J. \{. 

 B. Masefield, at Kosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire, on May (Jth, 

 1911. This bird was one of a pair (Mr. Masefield thought 

 the female) which nested in a porch. Its mate was also 

 cauoht and ringed. At the same time Mr. Masolield 

 ringed another pair nesting in the same porch. In the 

 summer of 1912 he aoain caught the Swallows which had 

 come to nest in his porch and found that only one of them 

 had u ring, viz. B.827, which was one of the birds nesting 

 there the year before. Neither its mate nor the other pair, 

 of wdiicli the present B.830 is one, had returned to this 

 particular spot. 



That this Swallow, breeding in the far west of Europe, 

 should have reached so far to the sovii\\-east of Africa as 



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