. Longevity 
 
A' 
 
From Bird-Banding. General Notes. Vol. V. No. 2. April. 193I. p. 99. 
THE OLDEST BANDED BIRD. E. Schuz (     ,   4,,p.176,1933) reports that a
Herring Gull 
(Larus a. areentatuq), banded July 5, 1910, on the coast of the North Sea
with a 
Eossitten ring vs found April 24, 1933, on ,the Island Terschilling (Holland).

Herring Gulls of twenty-one and twenty-two years have been reported previously.