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us access to the Zoological Library of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. E. I. S. Rees and H. Morrey Salmon made valuable comments on earlier drafts of this account. REFERENCES In addition to the publications mentioned in the text, the follow- ing were consulted British Birds Field Studies Nature in Wales The Zoologist Annual Reports of Bardsey, Hilbre and Skokholm Bird Observatories Journal, Birkenhead School Nat. Hist. Soc. Proc. Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc. Bull. Gower Orn. Soc. Proc. Montgomeryshire Field Soc. SEAL-RINGING IN WEST WALES DURING 1961 A. L. JOHNSON 1. NUMBER RINGED Male-83. Female-75. Total-158. 2. RINGING LOCATIONS Ramsey Island-93 seals ringed. Skomer Island-34 seals ringed. Pembrokeshire mainland-31 seals ringed. 3. AGE OF SEALS RINGED (a) Young seals up to 4 weeks of age Up to 7 days-88 8-14 days-22 15-21 days-II 1 22-28 days-9 (b) Seals over 4 weeks of age Bulls-14 (8 were more than 2 years old) Cows-14 (8 were more than 2 years old). 4. RECOVERIES 21 young seals were reported by later ringing parties on the beaches where they had been found originally. Reports were received on 16 other seals, though 2 of these were reported twice their ages varied between 3 and 61 weeks. The general pattern of the recoveries is the same. as in previous years, the live recoveries, other than local ones, occurring to the south and south-west.