BRni5nDIN)S 



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



assisted by 



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



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



Contents of Number (j, Vol. VI. November 1, 1912. 



Some Notes on the Breeding-Habits of Nightingales. By N. F. 



Ticehurst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 



The British Birds Marking Scheme : Progress for 1912 and 



some Results. By H. F. Witherby . . . . . . . . 177 



Notes : — 



Rare Birds in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . . . . . . . 184 



Hooded Crow in Staffordshire (J. R. B. Masefield) .. .. 184 



Lesser Redpoll breeding in Kent (H. R. Tutt) . . . . . . 184 



Tits and Humble-bees (J. R. B. Masefield) . . . . . . 185 



Barred Warbler in Ireland (R. M. Barrington) . . . . 185 



Black Redstart in Surrey (H. Bentham) . . . . . . 186 



Lapland Bluethroat in Forth . . . . . . . . . . 186 



White-spotted Bluethroat in Sussex (N. F. Ticehui-st) . . 187 



Birds Breeding in old Nests (J. R. B. Masefield) . . . . 187 



Return of marked Swifts and House-Martins to their Breeding- 

 places (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) . . . . . . . . 187 



A further Extension of the Breeding-range of the Little Owl 



(N. F. Ticehurst) 188 



Kestrel eating a Bat (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . . . 189 



Abnormal Breeding-habits of Sheld-Duck (N. H. Foster) . . 189 



Nesting of Teal in Surrey (G. K. Baynes) . . . . . . 190 



Colour of Irides of Tufted Ducklings (Rev. F. C. R. Jom-dain) 190 



Unrecorded Snow-Geese in Gloucestershire (W. L. Mellersh). . 191 



Waders Inland in South Lancashire (A. W. Boyd) .. .. 192 



Baird's Sandpiper in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 193 



Black-tailed Godwit in Cornwall (F. Jaffrey) .. .. .. 193 



Arctic Skua in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . 193 



Unrecorded Great Skua in Meath (Dr. C. W. Benson) . . 194 



Short Notes : — Cuckoo reared by Rock-Pipits. Little Owl in 

 Forth. Wliite variety of the Heron in Wigtownshire. 

 Ruff in Herefordsliire. Sabine's Gull in Forth. Buf- 



fon's Skua in Herefordshire .. .. .. .. 194 



Obituaiy : — The late A. O. Hume . . . . . . . . . . 1 95 



Letters : — Sporadic Nesting. Blakeney Point Tern Colonies. 

 Orkney Breeding-records of Long-tailed Duck and 



Grey Lag-Goose. A Sacred Ibis in Essex . . . . 196 



