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Dr. A. L. Thomson : Results of a Study of [Ibis, 
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER (Muscicapa grisola Linn.). 
Two adult birds (Cases 484 and 485) caught on their nests 
near Edinburgh were recaught at the same place a year 
later. As this species is completely absent from the British 
Isles in winter the records are of some interest as evidence 
of migrants returning to the same breeding-places. 
MEADOW-PIPIT (Anthus pratensis Linn.). 
One (Case 275), considered by the marker to be a male of 
the year, was caught, marked and released near Bromford, 
Warwickshire, on 20 September, 1911, and was shot near 
Lisbon, Portugal, about 7 December of the same year. 
Witherby (26) has three records of British-bred Meadow- 
Pipits from south-western France, one from Portugal, 
and no winter records from the British Isles. (The species 
is found all the year round in the British Isles, but is known 
in autumn both as an immigrant and as an emigrant.) 
SWIFT (Apus apus Linn.). 
An adult (Case 919) caught and marked in its nesting- 
hole in Ayrshire on 11. 6.14, was recaught at the same place 
on 5. 6.18. 
CUCKOO (Guculus canorus Linn.). 
One (Case 251) marked as a nestling near Newark, 
Nottinghamshire, on 30 June, 1911, was shot on the Sea 
Bank at Boston, Lincolnshire, on 2 September of the same 
year. 
BARN-OWL (Flammea flammea Linn.). 
Two nestlings of the same brood (Cases 453 and 454) 
marked in Staffordshire on 22 July, 1913, were recovered 
in the same district about 6 January and 4 March, 1914, 
respectively. 
■ HERON (Ardea purpurea Linn.). 
Three marked as nestlings, in Aberdeenshire, Dumbarton¬ 
shire, and Yorkshire respectively, were recovered within 
short distances of the places of marking during either their 
first or second winters. 
