BRIT^nDIRDS 



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



assisted by 



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



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



Contents of Number 4, Vol. VI., September 2, 1912. 



The First Nesting of the Common Eider in Ireland. 

 Robinson 



By H. W 



Spring-Notes on the Borders (1911-12). By Abel Chapman 



Observations on Manx Shearwaters and Storm-Petrels at the 

 Scilly Isles. By Norman H. Joy 



Notes : — 



Red-backed Shrike in Wigtownshire (jM. Portal) 



British Redbreast in Italy (Signorina Cecilia Picchi). . 



Continental Hedge-Sparrow in Yorkshire (T. A. Coward) 



Early Laying of Cuckoo (Herbert Massey) 



Long-eared Owl entering a Building (J. H. Owen) 



Squacco Heron in Norfolk (H. W. Robinson). . 



Night-Heron in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 



Little Bittern in Somerset (F. H. L. Whish) . . 



Brent Goose in Anglesey (H. E. Forrest) . . 



Scaup in Cheshire in Summer (T. A. Coward) . . 



Sooty Shearwater in Orkney (F. W. Smalley). . 



Number of Fulmars on Handa (A. Mayall) 



Great Crested Grebe breeding near London (W. E. Glegg) 



Unusual Flocks of Green Sandpipers (M. Winzar Compton) 



Snipe's and Yellow Wagtail's hasty Choice of Nesting-sites 



(W. Fitzherbert-Brockholes) " . . 



White-winged Black Terns in Essex (H. Becher) 

 Common Tern in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 

 Early Departure of Common Terns from Nesting-sites 



(H. W. Robinson) 



Sandwich Terns at Ravenglass (Eric B. Dmilop) 

 Short Notes : — Redstart's Remarkable Nest. Reported breed 

 ing of the Long- tailed Duck in Orkney. " Courtship " 

 Actions of the Goosander. Great Crested Grebe nesting 

 in " Lakeland." Black-tailed Godwit in Cumberland 

 Correction . . 

 Letter : — Sporadic Nesting . . 



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