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(Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries), and in Asia ranges from about 62 in West 

 and 64 in East Siberia, at least as far as the Lena, while southward it is known to 

 breed in Kashmir and the Himalayas at upwards of ten thousand feet. It also 

 breeds in Japan. In winter its southern range extends to the Mediterranean region 

 and North-west Africa as well as Egypt, and in Asia to S. Persia, India, Ceylon 

 (rare), Burma, and China. As a straggler it has occurred in the Faeroes, Spitsbergen, 

 and in eastern North America. [F. c. R. j.] 



3. Migration. A large number of woodcock breed in the British Isles, 

 some of them being resident and others summer visitors : a far greater number visit 

 our area in winter or on passage, breeding in Northern Europe. Taking first the 

 movements of the British-breeding woodcock, we find that a certain amount of 

 definite information exists in the form of records of marked birds recovered. The 

 following is a summary of the records of young woodcock marked on the Duke 

 of Northumberland's estate at Alnwick (Northumberland) between 1891 and 1908 

 (for the unclassified list from which we have made this summary, cf. Lord William 

 Percy, Country Life, Feb. 27, 1909) :- 



Birds recovered in their first winter : 



September, Home ; and Heriot, Midlothian (Scotland) ; 



October, Home (2) ; 



November, Home (10) ; Forfarshire (Scotland) ; and Somerset ; 



December, Home (5) ; Co. Wexford (Ireland) ; and Argyll (Scotland) ; 



January, Home (7) ; 



March, Co. Cork (Ireland). 



Birds recovered in their second winter : 

 October, Home ; 



November, Co. Limerick (Ireland) ; 

 December, Home (4) ; and Co. Antrim (Ireland) ; 

 January, Home (2). 



Birds recovered in their third winter : 

 November, Home (3) ; 

 December, Home ; C6tes-du-Nord, Brittany (France) ; and Galloway 



(Scotland) ; 

 January, Home (2) ; 

 February, Home. 



