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(9) Llyn Mynyddlod, near Lake Bala, Merioneth- 

 shire. — Six out of 150=s4 per cent. One of these was 

 found dead in the breeding-season on the Hebden 

 Bridge Gullery, Yorks., three years afterwards, and was 

 evidently nesting there. Another was reported from south 

 Lancashire three years three months later. The remain- 

 ing four occurred from one to seven months later in south 

 Lancashire, Denbighshire, and Gloucestershire. 



(10) CoRFB Castle and Swanage, Dorset. — ^Four 

 recoveries. Three of these went due south on the 

 Continent, two being found in Brittany, France, the one 

 date unknown and the other three years and five months 

 later, the third being reported from near Loures in 

 Portugal eight months later. The fourth was found 

 in its parent-county within a month. 



( 11) Loch Spynie, near Elgin, N.B. — ^Four recoveries. 

 One of these birds went due north, being recovered in 

 Orkney five months later. Two were found in the 

 parent county four years and two months and one month 

 later. The fourth occurred in Aberdeenshire two months 

 later. 



(12) Hallington Reservoir, Northumberland. — 

 Five recoveries. One in NorfoUc (seven months) and 

 the other four in Durham (two and three months). 



(13) Hebden Bridge and Egton, Yorkshire. — Two 

 recoveries. The most wonderful of all the returns is 

 that of a bird marked at Egton, which seven months 

 later was found on the Island of Flores, in the Azores. 

 The other record was from south Lancashire (two 

 months). 



(14) SoAWBY, LiNCOLNSHiRB. — One recovery, Denbigh- 

 shire, one year and seven months later. 



(15) Lower Lough Erne, go. Fermanagh, Ireland. 

 — ^Three recoveries. One in co. Roscommon (seven 

 months), the others in their parent county (five and 

 two months). 



