BRirenBlflDS 



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



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. R. Jotjrdain, ^i.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman F. 



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



Contents of Number 1, Vol. VI. June 1, 1912. 



The Lesser Black-backed Gull of the British Isles. By Percy 



R. Lowe 

 A Tengmalm's Owl captured in Northumberland. Bv J M 



Charlton _ 



The late Walter Ibbotson Beaumont 

 Notes : — 



A Marked Starling Reported from Finland (Norman H. Joy) 

 Return of a Marked Swallow (J. R. B. Masefield) 

 Crossbills Nesting in Suffolk (Leonard Gray) . . 

 Remarkable Nests of Chaffinch and Robin (D. G. Garnett) 

 Chaffinch's Nest Decorated with Paper (W. J. Clarke). . 

 Blue-headed Wagtails in Carnarvonshire (R. W. Jones) 

 Grey Wagtail Nesting in East Sussex (Col. H. W. Feilden) 

 Early Laying of the Cuckoo (Rev. F. C. R. Jovu-dain) 

 Little Owl Breeding in Middlesex and Sussex (R. B Lodee 



and S. V. Clark) .... . 



Hobby and Wryneck in Cheshire (T. A. Coward arid C. Oldham) 

 Hen-Harrier in South-east Northimiberland (J. M. Charlton) 

 Red-breasted Mergansers in Camarvonsliire (R. W. Jones) 

 Great Shearwater in Kent (N. F. Ticehm-st) 

 Snipe Breeding in Kent (R. E. Cheesman) 

 Black-headed Gulls and a Swarm of Flies (J. M. Charlton)' ' 

 The 1912 " Wreck " of the Little Auk 



Early Nesting of Moor- Hen (Herbert Massey) . . .[ [[ 



Short Notes : — Persistence of the Right Ovary and its Duct in 

 Birds. Birds in Norfolk in 1911. Hooded Crow in 

 Herefordshire. White Wagtails in East Ross. Willow- 

 and Marsh-Tits in Northiunberland. Hoopoe in York- 

 shire. Tengmalm's Owl in Shetland. The Bill of the 

 Young Heron. Storm-Petrel in Captivity. Black- 

 tailed Godwit in the Cromarty Firth. The Syrinx of 

 the Scolopacidse. Black Terns in Bedfordshire and 

 Hertfordshire. Sandwich Tern nesting near Aberdeen. 

 Early arrival of the Common Tern . . 

 Letters :— " On Incubation '"' ; The Life of Sir William Jardine'; 



The Stomach of a Water-Rail . . 

 Reviews -.—The British Warblers. A History with Problems of 

 their Lives . . 

 A Catalogue of the Vertebrate Fauna of Dumfriesshire. '. 



IMPORTANT NOTE. 



As announced in the Preface to Volume V., the nomen- 

 clature to be used in future in British Birds will be that of 

 our Hand-list of British Birds. The Hand-list is now available, 

 and all changes of names are there explained— Eds. 



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