抄録
During the period covered by this report, April 1, 1968 to March 31, 1969, total of 19, 759 birds, 139 species were ringed at 34 localities in 21 prefectures of Japan and Southern China Sea. The number of birds ringed and released is shown in Table 1. The names of principal ringing sites and cooperating ringers are shown respectively in Table 2 and Table 3. Recoveries of birds ringed by our ringing team and its cooperators are totalled to 100 birds of 20 species, of which 21 individuals of 5 species were reported from foreign territories. Those recovered at or in close proximity to places where ringed, and less than 6 months after ringed, are not described here. Furthermore, those of Motacilla alba and Delichon urbica recovered at the ringing places, even in case of more than one year after ringed, are also excluded. Recoveries of birds ringed by the ringing team of the Forestry Experiment Station, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are mentioned in Appendix, but their ringing information are not described in this bulletin. During this period, recoveries of 14 birds of 5 species ringed abroad were reported from the interior Japan. Among these, the specially interested are, one Anas acuta ringed in California, U. S. A. and three Sterna fuscata which were ringed at Midway Atoll, U. S. A. and blown to Kochi Prefecture by a typhoon.
