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ringing in large nesting colonies. Miss A. Pease has the 

 S])lendid. total of seventeen hundred and eighty -eight, 

 Mr. A. Mayall seven hundred and thirty-one, Messrs. 

 J. R. B. Masefield and H. W. Robinson over six hundred 

 each. Miss Blyth and Mr. R. O. Blyth over five hundred, 

 Messrs. J. Bartholomew, A. W. Boyd and Miss C. M. 

 Acland over three hundred each, and twenty others 

 over one hundred each. There is no falling off either 

 in the number of ringers or their keenness. 



I have recently dra^^•n attention {antea, p. 63) to a 

 plan of snaring adult birds at the nest, from which most 

 valuable results should be obtained. I sincerely hope 

 that next year some of our ringers will take up this idea 

 and I am certain that the result will amply repay the 

 trouble involved. 



As in previous reports, I may here draw attention to 

 some of the many recoveries Avhich have been reported 

 during the year. 



Among summer migrants ringed as nestlings the 

 following may be picked out as of special interest. 



Whinchat .. Yorks, 15/6/'14 

 Turtle-Dove . . Hants, 9/8/' 13 



Sandwich Tern Fame Is., 9/7/' 13 . . 

 15/7/'14 

 Cumberland, 25/6/' 10 

 Common Tern „ 14/7/'10 



Ringed. Recovered. 



Portugal, 4/ 10/' 14. 

 Portugal, Sept., '13. 



Ivory Coast, 9/2/' 14. 

 Elgin, 29/8/' 14. 

 Gironde, 28/3/' 14. 

 Huelva, Spain, 28/10/'13. 



Northumberland, 27/6/' 14 Portugal, 8/9/' 14. 



Of these the SandA\ich Tern recovered on the Ivory 

 Coast is particularly interesting, as it was presumably 

 in its winter quarters, AAhile the bird wliich reached 

 Elgin a month after it ^^'as ringed at the Fames had 

 surely mistaken its direction. 



Among those species Avhich are partial migrants, the 

 following recorded movements are interesting, especially 

 AN hen considered in conjunction with many other records 

 showing that other individuals of the same species are 

 sedentary. All the following were ringed as nesthngs 

 or juveniles. 



