SWALLOW'S FLIGHT OF 6,000 MILES.
"Results of the greatest interest to bird lovers are being .obtained from the 'ringing* of birds, \vhicli is being carried on on a large scale by readers of 'British. Birds.' Some 32,000 of those rings have been affiled, and the bird wearers aro being recaptured in places far remote from the spot where they wove " says the ''Chroniolp." "At a farmhouse on the Roo.dcyand Farm, soma 18 miles from Utrecht, iu Nutal, a swallow was caught on December 23. bearing on its leg a metal label with the words 'W'itherby, High Holborn, liondon,' and the number 11.' 830. The ring was pent to England, and has been identified by Mv. Witiherby as" one which on Atay 0, 1911, was placed on an adult swallow at Roseliiil, Cheadle, Staffordshire, by Mr. ,T. R. B. Masefield. The bird, which thus mnde a journey of spine. 6000 iiiiies. was one of a pair which nested in Mr. Minefield's porch, and the other bird was ringed at the samp time."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 12
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171SWALLOW'S FLIGHT OF 6,000 MILES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 12
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