492 Dr. A. L. Thomson : Results of a Study of [Ibis, 
The above table has been retained mainly as an example o£ 
the method employed, for, as has already been pointed out, ex¬ 
cessive sub-division of the available total renders the separate 
items too small to be regarded as quantitatively significant. 
Witherbv (26) has a number of records, not yet published 
in collected or analysed form, of a similar nature to those 
dealt with in this section. 
III.—THE WOODCOCK (Scolopax rusticola Linn.): 
ANALYSIS OF RECORDS. 
As in the case of the previous species, the Woodcock is 
found in the British Isles throughout the year, but is known 
as a migrant to our coasts and from our coasts both in 
autumn and in spring. The problem is again, therefore, 
largely that of distinguishing the movements of the native 
birds from those of the winter visitors and birds of passage. 
The results show several interesting features, and the 
details of the numbers marked, together with a complete list 
of the reappearances, are accordingly given in this instance 
also. 
TABLE VIII. 
Numbers of Woodcock Marked and Recovered. 
Regions of Marking. 
Numbers 
Season of 
recovered 
marking as 
(by seasons 
chicks. 
N. 
N.E. 
C. 
S. 
N. 
of 
Scot¬ 
Scot¬ 
Scot¬ 
Scot¬ 
Eng¬ 
Ire¬ 
Total. 
marking). 
land. 
land. 
land. 
land. 
land. 
land. 
1910 . 
2 
8 
2 
1 
1 
14 
3 
1911 . 
1 
1 
2 
3 
2 
9 
2 
1912 . 
2 
2 
36 
2 
3 
45 
6 
1913 . 
— 
5 
26 
1 
8 
-L 
40 
7 
1914 . 
■r— ' 
1 
16 
23 
■ IS ; 
— 
40 
2 
1915 . 
— 
— 
2 
— 
— 
-J. 
2 
— 
1916 . 
B ■ 
— ! 
3 
— i 
— ' 
i-i 
3 
1 
1917 . 
1918 . 
— 
— 
—1 
■ Bj 
1 
1 
— 
Marked V 
otherwise [ 
O 
2 
than as f 
Li 
chicks. J 
Total . 
5 
17 
87 
32 
ii 
4 
156 
21 
Numbers 1 
recovered [ 
4 
11 
2 
3 
1 
21 
13-5% 
(by regions j 
of marking) J 
