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Swallow {Hirundo r. rustica). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — Twelve ringed in Yorkshire, Lancashire, 

 Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Surrey have been recovered 

 at the same place in the summer of the following year and 

 one ringed in Lancashire two years afterwards. One ringed 

 near Lancaster on August ist was found at Windermere on 

 September 4th in the same year. 



Recovered away. — One ringed in Hampshire was found in 

 June of the following year in Middlesex, while another also 

 ringed in Hampshire was recovered in the following May in 

 Sussex, another ringed in Stirlingshire was reported in the 

 following May from Yorkshire and another ringed in co. 

 Kildare was found the following June in co. Armagh. One 

 ringed in Lancashire was found as near the middle of France 

 as Indre et-Loire in September of the same year, while another 

 ringed in Staffordshire was reported from the south-west of 

 France (Charente-Inferieure) in the following October. One 

 ringed in Staffordshire was reported found dead in Brittany 

 in the following December, but how long the bird had been 

 dead was uncertain. One ringed in Lancashire was found in 

 Cape Province in February of the following year, another ringed 

 in A^Tshirewas reported from the Orange Free State in March 

 of the following year, while another ringed in Yorkshire was 

 recovered in East Griqualand in the following February. One 

 ringed in Staffordshire was found dead after a snowstorm near 

 Bilbao, north Spain, in March, nearly two years after ringing. 



Ringed as Adults. 



Recovered at home. — Three ringed in Staffordshire and 

 Lancashire have been recovered at the same place in the 

 following summer and two ringed in Dumfriesshire and 

 Peeblesshire in summer two years afterwards. 



Recovered away. — One ringed in Staffordshire and recovered 

 in Natal in December eighteen months afterwards is the 

 only adult so far reported away from where it was ringed. 



Martin {Delichon u. urbica). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — Two ringed in Lancashire and 

 Hampshire have been recovered in summer of the following 

 year and another ringed in Lancashire and one in Dumfries- 

 shire in summer two years afterwards. 



Recovered away. — One ringed in Lancashire was reported 

 from Surrey in October of the same year and another ringed 

 in Roxburghshire was found in Cher in the centre of France 

 in October of the same year. 



