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Herring-Gull [Lams a argentatus). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered at or near home. — One ringed in Ross-shire was 

 found in December of the same year at the same place. 

 Others are reported not very far from the place of ringing 

 from August to December of the same year, viz. : ringed 

 Ross-shire, reported Aberdeen August and September, 

 Argyllshire October, Lanarkshire October ; ringed Caithness, 

 reported Ross-shire and Banffshire August ; ringed Anglesey, 

 found Lancashire December ; ringed Carnarvonshire, reported 

 Glamorganshire December. One ringed in Ross-shire was 

 also reported from Inverness-shire in January eighteen 

 months after ringing. 



Recovered away. — Others found farther from home were : 

 ringed Ross-shire, reported Yorkshire in September of the 

 following year ; ringed in Caithness, found near Calais in 

 September of the same year, and in Waterford in July 

 ■of the next year ; ringed in Carnarvonshire, reported in 

 Dublin in the January following. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull {Lams f. affmis). 

 Ringed as Nestlings. 



Recovered in British Isles. — With only two exceptions all 

 the Lesser Black-backed Gulls recovered were ringed either 

 at Foulshaw, Westmorland, or in the Fame Isles off the coast 

 of Northumberland. Of those ringed in Westmorland sixteen 

 have been reported in Great Britain mostly a month or two 

 after ringing and mostly on the west side, but one from 

 Yorkshire and another from Durham. October ist is the 

 latest date, excluding one ringed in 1919 which was recovered 

 on December 2nd, but Mr. H. W. Robinson, who ringed these 

 birds tells me that unfortunately two or three pairs of Herring- 

 Gulls are now nesting at Foulshaw and he is afraid this bird 

 must have been a Herring-Gull. Two were found in Lan- 

 cashire in March and May four years after ringing. 



Of those ringed at the Fames twenty-four have been 

 reported from the British Isles. Most of these also were 

 found a month or two after ringing quite near the Fames and 

 in Durham, Yorkshire and Norfolk, but one in Lancashire 

 and another in Mayo. Three were reported in the second 

 year, viz., Durham October ist, Sunderland September 12th 

 and Cheshire July 5th. The latest date in the autumn for 

 one of these Fame Isle birds to be found in the British Isles 

 was November 14th, another was reported on November 2nd 

 and several in the latter half of October, all these being in 

 Northumberland or Durham. 



