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Cumberland and Lancashire were recovered later in the same 

 summer or in the winter in adjacent counties, viz., Inverness- 

 shire, Buteshire, Dumfriesshire and Cheshire. One ringed 

 in Northumberland was reported from Lincolnshire in winter 

 three and a half years afterwards and another ringed in 

 Warwickshire was found in Norfolk in the following Septem- 

 ber. Three travelled greater distances, viz., Ross-shire to 

 Mayo (November folloM'ing), Warwickshire to Cornwall 

 (January following), Stirlingshire to Down (September 

 next year). 



Curlew {Numenms a. arquata). 



Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — Two were found at the same place 

 nearly a year afterwards, one in Cheshire in April and the 

 other in IDumfriesshire in May. 



Recovered away. — Of eight recovered away five were from 

 Ireland, viz. : ringed in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Dumfries- 

 shire recovered in Limerick, Sligo and Donegal in October 

 and December of the same year and in Kerry in the following 

 March (28th) and in November two and a half years after- 

 wards. Of two ringed in Ross-shire one was reported from 

 Kirkcudbrightshire in the following December and another 

 was found dead in the Outer Hebrides. One ringed in 

 Sutherland was recovered in the Isle of Skye in December 

 eighteen months afterwards. 



Snipe (Gallinago g. gallinago). 



Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at home. — Five were recovered in Orkney, York- 

 shire, Lancashire and Berkshire from August to November 

 of the same year, one in Cheshire in August two years 

 afterwards, one in Staffordshire in November three years 

 afterwards and one in Shropshire in October six years 

 afterwards. 



Recovered away. — Several were reported from adjacent 

 counties or not far away, viz., Cheshire to Staffordshire and 

 Yorkshire in August and November of the same year and in 

 August two years afterwards, Bedfordshire to Norfolk in 

 November eighteen months afterwards, Berkshire to Hamp- 

 shire in the following February, Surrey to Sussex in January 

 eighteen months afterwards. Three others were found at 

 a distance, viz. : Cheshire to Cork in December eighteen 

 months afterwards, Lancashire to Galway in December 

 eighteen months afterwards, Lancashire to Cornwall, but 

 unfortunately without date. 



