. British birds. Birds. OTES. MIGRATION OF BRITISH WINTER-VISITANT STARLINGS. The following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in the German reports :— Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on June 10th, 1909, at Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911, at Farnley, Yorkshire (Thienemann, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1912, p. 160). Vog. Rossitten, No. 4116 : marked in the nest on June 10th, 1911, at Lisden, Livonia. Shot on December 26th, 1911, near Buckfast Abbey, south Devon (Thienemann, Journ. f. Orn., 1913, Sonderheft, p. 5
. British birds. Birds. OTES. MIGRATION OF BRITISH WINTER-VISITANT STARLINGS. The following two records of marked Starlings have so far not been published except in the German reports :— Vog. Rossitten No. 108 : marked in the nest on June 10th, 1909, at Lisden, near Wolmar, Livonia, Russia. Obtained about March 20th, 1911, at Farnley, Yorkshire (Thienemann, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1912, p. 160). Vog. Rossitten, No. 4116 : marked in the nest on June 10th, 1911, at Lisden, Livonia. Shot on December 26th, 1911, near Buckfast Abbey, south Devon (Thienemann, Journ. f. Orn., 1913, Sonderheft, p. 58). While on this subject it seems desirable to quote the references to similar cases : Starling marked in Denmark, 1904, caught m East Lothian, March, 1906 (Mortensen, Dansh orniih. Forenings Tidsskrift, 1907, p. 152) ; marked in Denmark, October, 1911, and recovered in Norfolk, November, 1911 {British Birds, V., p. 187). The records of movements of birds marked in Britain in winter are most interesting when compared with the above. They are : the Berkshire to Finland record {antea, Vol. VI., p. 13), two Aberdeen University, Scotland to Arctic Norway records {antea, Vol. V., j)P- 101, 129), and another here published for the first time :— Aberdeen Univ., No. 16479: caught and marked at Edinburgh, March 18th, 1911. Recovered at Vaerdalsoren, prov. Trondhjem, Norway, 5th April, 1913 (information in Sandsfjords Blad, : ring and fuller details sent later by Mr. A. M. Elstad). Further, there is a record of a Starling with a ring marked " Echnb. 102," obtained in Denmark in April, 1910, but never claimed {Ann. Scot. , 1910, p. 248). A. Landsborough Thomson. LINNETS NESTING ON THE GROUND. In June, 1912, we found the nest of a Linnet {Carduelis c. cannabina) among the growth overhanging a small muddy creek in the neighbourhood of Port Victoria on the Kentish coast. The nest contained five eggs and was considerably below the level of the ground. Agai
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