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Ringed as Adult. 



Recovered at home. — One ringed in Lancashire in May was 

 recovered at the same place in October of the following year. 



Sandwich Tern {Sterna s. sandvicensis) . 



Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered away. — One ringed at the Fames, Northumber- 

 land, was found (probably breeding) at Ravenglass, Cumber- 

 land, in July exactly five years afterwards. Others ringed 

 at the Fames were found in Elgin six weeks afterwards, in 

 Ross-shire in August two years afterwards, in Morbihan, 

 France, and in Portugal in the following September, and on 

 the Ivory Coast, West Africa, in the following February. 

 One ringed in Cumberland was reported from Gironde, France, 

 in March four years afterwards. 



Common Tern {Sterna hirundo). 



Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered away. — A large number ringed in Cumberland 

 and a few in Norfolk were found in August and September 

 a month or two after ringing some few miles to the south. 

 Others ringed in Cumberland were found : two in Yorkshire 

 and one in Berwickshire in September of the same year, while 

 one ringed in Norfolk was found at the mouth of the Tees in 

 September of the same year. Others ringed in Cumberland 

 were reported in the same year from De'V'on on October gth 

 and north-west Spain and Oporto in September ; three others 

 ringed in Northumberland, Renfrew and Ross-shire were 

 found in Portugal in September and October of same year, 

 while another ringed in Kent was recovered in France in 

 September of the same year. Two ringed in Cumberland were 

 reported from Brittany on August 25th two years afterwards 

 and south Spain on October 28th three years afterwards. 



Common Gull {Lartis canus). 



Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at or near home. — Of six recovered in Argyllshire 

 where they were ringed or in adjacent counties two have been 

 in August and September of the same year, two in the following 

 February, one in September of the following 3'ear and one 

 on April 27th three years after ringing. 



Recovered away. — Four ringed in Argyllshire were reported 

 from Ireland : Derry, Carlow, Louth and Clare, two in Novem- 

 ber of the same year, one in November of the following year 

 and one in February seven years after ringing. One was 

 found in Northumberland in September of the same year. 



