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Birds recovered in their fourth winter : 

 November, Home ; 

 December, Home ; 

 January, Home ; and Co. Cork (Ireland) (2). 



Birds recovered in their fifth winter : 

 December, Home. 



Birds recovered in their sixth winter : 

 December, Home. 



To this we may add a summary of a few records of young woodcock marked 

 at Baron's Court, Co. Tyrone, Ireland (cf. Hamilton, Field, 17th Oct. 1908, p. 717, 

 and 24th Oct. 1908, p. 745) : 



Birds recovered in their first winter : 



Home (2) ; and Inverness (Scotland). 

 Birds recovered in their second winter : 



Home (6) ; Harrow, Middlesex ; and Cornwall. 



And of woodcock marked near Carlisle in May 1911 (cf. British Birds, vol. v. 

 p. 186) : 



Birds recovered in their first winter : 

 October (31st), Co. Galway (Ireland) ; 

 November, Cumberland and Dumfriesshire. 



Finally, there are records of (1) a young bird marked on Lord Ardilaun's estate 

 at Cong, Co. Galway, Ireland, in the spring of 1910: this was recovered about forty 

 miles north of Oporto, Portugal, on December 28, 1910 (cf. British Birds, vol. iv. 

 p. 280) ; (2) another young bird, marked near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scot- 

 land, on 13th June 1911, and reported shot on 4th January 1912 near Gijon, on 

 the north coast of Spain (Aberdeen University Bird- Migration Inquiry). 



It is necessary to give the above somewhat full summary of the records, because 

 the interpretation of them is uncertain. But the main points seem to be as follows : 

 a great many of the birds are resident and stationary; others disperse in all directions, 

 including north, during the winter months ; and some of the latter which take 

 southerly directions perform journeys of considerable length, which may doubtless 

 be classed as true migratory movements. 



The great autumnal immigration sets in in October, and is at its height 

 in that and the succeeding month. It is continued from Great Britain into 



