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ON SOME RESULTS OF RINGING CERTAIN 

 SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY. 



{Continued from p. 296.) 



Cormorant {Phalacrocorax c. carbo). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at or near home. — The birds recorded have been 

 ringed in the Fame Isles, Northumberland, the Scilly Isles, 

 Wexford, Mochrum, Kirkcudbrightshire and the Summer 

 Isles, north-west Ross-shire. 



From the Fame Isles those reported in the immediate 

 neighbourhood were six between September and December 

 of the same year and two in the following January, one in 

 November of the second year, one in April and one in May 

 nearly three years afterwards and one in May nearly four 

 years afterwards. Of others ringed in the Fames and found 

 not very far away we have : — four in Fifeshire in October 

 and December of the same year, one in Haddingtonshire in 

 November two years afterwards, one in Durham in August 

 two years afterwards, in Yorkshire one in November of the 

 same year, one in the January following, and one in May 

 a year after ringing. 



From the Scilly Isles we have one at the same place, 

 three in Cornwall, one in Devon, and one in Somerset between 

 July and December of the same year and one in Cornwall 

 in Febmary nearly two years afterwards. 



From Wexford three were reported from the same place 

 in July, August and October of the same year, nine off various 

 counties on the east side of Ireland from Waterford in the south 

 to Londonderry in the north, from August to Dec. in the same 

 year, one in Waterford in June and one in Louth in July a 

 year after ringing and one in Londonderry in January two and 

 a half years after ringing. Five were reported from inland 

 counties, viz. : — Westmeath, Longford, Cavan and Lough 

 Neagh, Antrim, all from August to October in the same year, 

 while one was found in Galway in July a year after ringing. 



From the Summer Isles five have been repqrted not 

 far away (the farthest being from southern Argyllshire) from 

 November to January following ringing. 



From Mochrum one was reported in the Solway Firth 

 in the following September. 



The total of the above records is fifty-five. 



