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ON SOME RESULTS OF RINGING CERTAIN 

 SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



H. F. WITHERBY. 



{Coniinuecl from p. 271.) 



Willow- Warbler {Phylloscopus t. trochilus). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — One ringed in Yorkshire was caught 

 in the following year near the same place sitting on a nest 

 with six eggs, and thus afforded a very definite record of a 

 bird breeding where it was hatched. Another, also ringed in 

 Yorkshire, was reported from the same place the following 

 summer. 



Mistle-Thrush {Turdus v. viscivorus). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — Nestlings ringed in Hampshire, 

 Worcestershire, Lancashire and Yorkshire have been reported 

 a few months later in the same year at the same place, but not 

 later than September i6th. One was found in June of the 

 following summer. 



Recovered away. — One ringed in Sussex and another ringed 

 in Dumfriesshire were found in the following December and 

 November in Manche, Normandy, while another ringed in 

 Dumfriesshire was reported from co. Tipperary in January 

 two and a half years after ringing. 



Redbreast {Erithacus r. melophilus). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — As many as twenty-eight nestlings 

 ringed in many counties from Devonshire to Stirlingshire have 

 been recovered in the same place : sixteen in the following 

 October to February and one in January two and a half years 

 afterwards, two in the following September, two in the 

 following March and one in March nearly two years afterwards, 

 while five have been found from April to August a year 

 afterwards and one in June three years afterwards. 



Recovered away. — Only two Robins, whether ringed as 

 nestlings or adults, were recovered away. These were both 

 ringed as nestlings, one in Berkshire and one in Staffordshire, 

 the former being reported from the Island of Voorne, Zuid 

 Holland, in November two and a half years afterwards and 

 the latter in Gers in the centre of south-west France in the 

 October following its ringing. 



