BRITBnDIRDS 



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



assisted by 



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



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



Contents of Number 8, Vol. VI. January 1, 1913. 



Notes on the Bird-Life of South-west Ireland. By the Rev. 



F. C. R. Jourdain 234 



William Bemhard Tegetmeier. By F. W. Smalley . . . . 246 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . . , . . 251 



Notes : — 



Early Nesting of Lesser Redpoll and Goldfinch (Clifford 



Borrer) 254 



Eastern Sky-Lark in Ireland (Richard M. Barrington) . . 254 



Numbers of Young in Broods of Swallows and House-Martins 



in 1912 (H. W. Robinson) 254 



Late Swifts (H. E. Forrest) 255 



Glossy Ibises in Norfolk (J. H. Gurney) 256 



Sale of a Great Auk's Egg (Thomas Parkin) 256 



Short Notes : — Courtship of the Redshank. Baillon's Crake 



in Yorkshire . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 



Reviews. — Snowden Slights, Wildfowler . . . . . . . . 259 



The Food of Birds 261 



Letters : — Orkney Breeding-records of Grey Lag-Goose and 



Long-tailed Duck . . . . . . . . . . 263 



Sporadic Nesting and the Crossbill . . . . . . 263 



