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the rest of north Lancashire, and 27 per cent, from south 

 Lancashire. Of the Furness recoveries one occurred 

 over two years, and three over one year, after marking. 

 Of the rest of north Lancashire recoveries, five had 

 carried their rings over one year, five over two years, 

 and one for three years and seven months, and one south 

 Lancashire recovery just over a year ; 83 per cent, of 

 these Lancashire recoveries occurred within seven months 

 of marking. 



Cheshire furnished eleven returns, the most interesting 

 of which was a bird found dead a year later in the 

 nesting-season on the Delamere Forest Gullery and 

 was evidently breeding there. All the others occurred 

 within five months, except one at nine months, one 

 at two years and five months, and one at one year and 

 six months. 



North Wales shows six returns, an interesting one 

 being that of a bird found dead in the nesting season, 

 thirteen months later, on the Llanfairpwll Gullery, 

 Anglesey, and in all probability breeding there. One 

 was found in Flint one year and seven months later, 

 and two at PwlllieH, Carnarvon, picked up on the beach 

 on the same day one year and eight months later, were 

 marked within two days of one another. Anglesey (six 

 months) and Carnarvon (five months) account for the 

 remaining couple. 



From South Wales came nine returns : one one year 

 and four months later from Pembroke, and the other 

 eight from one to nine months later from Cardigan, 

 Carmarthen, Glamorgan (two 1913 birds), and four from 

 Monmouth, all four being, curiously enough, birds of 

 different years, viz., 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913. 



Gloucester shows two returns : one four months later, 

 and the other, thirteen months later in the nesting-season, 

 was possibly nesting in the vicinity. 



From northern Ireland came six returns, viz.. four 

 from CO. Down, fourteen, four, three, and three months 



