BRITISI1DIW)5 



EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman F. 



ticehurst, m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.tj. 



Contents of Number 2, Vol. VI. July 1, 1912. 



PAGE. 

 Robert Sibbald and his " Prodromus." By W. H. Mullens . . 34 



The late Jolin Gerrard Keulemans. By G. M. Mathews . . 58 



Notes : — 



The Odd Egg in a Clutch (C. W. Colthrup) 59 



Crossbills Nesting in England : 



In Buckinghamshire (R. Bulstrode) . . . . . . 60 



In Hampshire (Sir Thomas H. C. Troub ridge, Bart.) . . 61 



Cirl Bunting in Merioneth (S. G. Cummings) . . . . . . 61 



Albinistic Reed-Buntings (M. Harris) . . . . . . . . 61 



Pied Flycatcher in liCicestershire (Stephen H. Pilgrim) . . 62 



Lesser Whitethroat in Merioneth (S. G. Cummings) . . . . 62 



Hoopoe m Derbyshire (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdainj . . . . 62 



Breeding-habits of the Cuckoo (Lewis R. W. Loyd) . . . . 62 



Little Owls Breeding in Essex (J. H. Owen ) . . . . . . 63 



The Food of the Little Owl (E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Lewis 



R. W. Loyd, Miss C. M. Acland and G. T. Atchison) . . 64 



Long-eared Owl laying in a tenanted nest of Magpie (Bernard 



Starley) ' •• •• 66 



Spoonbills in Suffolk (Rev. Julian G. Tuck) 67 



Black-throated Diver in Carnarvonshire (R. W. Jones) . . 67 



Early Breeding of Dotterel (Clifford Borrer) . . . . 67 



"Twin" nest of Black-headed Gulls (C. L. Collenette) .. 67 



Arctic Skua in Carnarvonshire (R. W. Jones) . . . . 68 



The 1912" Wreck " of the Little Auk (G. B. Hony, R.N.) .. 69 

 Moor-Hens' Nests screened with " domes " of Reeds (J. H. 



Owen) 69 



Early nesting of the Moor-Hen and Common Snipe (A. Geoffrey 



Leigh) , 70 



Letters : — 



'' On Incubation " : The Stomach of a Water-Rail ; The 



British Lesser Black-backed Gull .. .. .. .. 71 



