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Ringed as Adults. 



Recovered at home. — All those ringed as adults and recovered 

 were found at or near the place they were ringed. These birds 

 were ringed in various counties from Kent to Stirlingshire. 

 Twenty-nine ringed between October and February were 

 recovered as follows : eighteen from October to February, 

 three in March, two in April, one in May, one in June, two 

 in July, one in August and one in September of the following 

 year or the second year. Six ringed in March were recovered 

 as follows : three between November and January, one in 

 May and two in June of the same, following, or second year. 

 Of ten others ringed between April and August three were 

 recovered between May and August and seven between 

 November and February. Four ringed in September were 

 all recovered in winter. 



The above summaries relate to the recovery of as many as 

 76 birds and the results are certainly remarkable in view of 

 the fact that migration records show a well-marked southward 

 movement of British Robins in autumn down both the west 

 and east coasts. With the exception of the one found in Holland 

 and the other in France, these ringed birds show no movement 

 — they have been ringed in all months of the year and have 

 been recovered in all months of the year and in some cases 

 the same bird has been recovered several times, while many of 

 them were ringed in northern counties, such as Stirlingshire, 

 Ayrshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and 

 Lancashire. Five of the records referring to those ringed as 

 nestlings certainly point to breeding in the place where they 

 were hatched. 



Dr. N. F. Ticehurst has suggested to me that this want 

 of movement may be partly due to a large proportion of the 

 Robins ringed being inhabitants of gardens where food is 

 abundant and that an unduly high proportion of these 

 individuals are in consequence sedentary. I regret that I have 

 not sufficient evidence either to prove or disprove the correct- 

 ness of this suggestion, and I should be very glad to have the 

 opinion upon this point of those who have ringed Robins. 



Hedge-Sparrow {Prunella m. occidentalis) . 



Recovered at home. — Seven ringed as nestlings in south 

 Scotland, England and Wales and twenty-three ringed as 

 adults in various counties from Ross-shire to Kent, both in 

 summer and winter, have all been recovered at the same 

 place, some in the following winter or in the second winter 

 and some in summer one year or two years afterwards. 



Recovered away. — None. 



