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Another ringed in Essex was reported from Danzig' (Prussia) 

 in August of the following year. These are t\t only two 

 ringed as nestlings which have been reported away, with the 

 exception of one ringed in Norfolk and reported in August 

 of the next year in Nord, France. This last, howevxr, was 

 one of a batch artificially reared from picked up eggs ; 

 twenty-six others of this lot were shot at home in the following 

 and second winter, but have not been included in the above 

 records. It is, however, curious that the proportions are 

 exactly the same, viz. : in the wild birds, fifty-two at home, 

 two away, and in the hand-reared birds, twenty-six at home 

 and one away. 

 Ringed as Adults. 



Recovered at home. — Fifty-two : Wigtownshire (43), Stafford- 

 shire (5) and Warwickshire (4) were recovered at home. Most 

 of them were ringed in February, but some in other months 

 between September and March. They were recovered 

 between August and February and one in April, mostly a 

 year or less afterwards, but a few in the second year and two 

 in the third year. One ringed in June was found breeding 

 in June of the next year and was reported again in the same 

 place in the following October ; another ringed in June was 

 shot in the following October. 



Recovered away. — Eight ringed in Wigtownshire were 

 reported away as follows : — One ringed March from co. 

 Antrim in the follovnng January ; five ringed on February 

 28th, 1914, from Kasko (Finland) August 1914, Laen (Sweden) 

 August 1914, Scania (Sweden) November 14th, 1914, Friesland 

 (Holland) November 26th, 1914, and Lake Malaren (Sweden) 

 October 1917 ; one ringed on February 28th, 1913, from 

 Swedish Lapland in the following November and one ringed 

 on February 27th, 1915, was reported from Armaal (Sweden) 

 in August 1915. These birds were evidently immigrants to 

 Wigtownshire, but it is noteworthy that those ringed in the 

 same place on the same day were found in the following autumn 

 in different parts, indicating that these were proceeding 

 leisurely south-westwards. 



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