BRITISnDIRDS 



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



assisted by 



Rev. Y. 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 0, Vol. VI. February 1, 1913. 



Field-notes on a pair of Stone-Curlews. Have they an appre- 

 ciable Sense of Smell. By F. G. Penrose M.D. F.Z.S. 



sr.B.o.u ;. 



The British Black Grouse. By H. F. Witherby and Einar 

 Lonnberg 



Barrow's Goldeneye and the Common Goldeneye. By H. F. 

 Witherby 



Notes : — 



A Swallow ringed in Staffordshire and recovered in Natal 



(H. F. Witherby) 



Slender-billed Nutcrackers in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay 



and T. Parkin) ^ 



Sky-Lark as foster-parent of Cuckoo (Howard Bentham) 

 Blackcap and Swallow in England in winter (G. K. Ba;yTae>s) . . 

 " Late " Swifts (Rev. William Serle) . . 

 Glossy Ibis in Essex (W. Farren) 

 The Song of the Swans (H. W. Robinson) 

 Curlew-Sandpiper in Scotland in winter (H. Wormald) 

 Purple Sandpiper in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 

 Pomatorhine Skua in Staffordshire (.1. R. B. Masefield) 

 Razorbill in Staffordshire (A. G. Leigh) 

 Post-mortem examinations of Birds 

 Short Not.'.s : — Red-breasted Flycatcher at Ihe Pdntland 

 Skerries. Supposed Scarlet Grosbeak in Oxfordshire. 

 Reed-War]iler in Orkney. Supposed Female Green- 

 land Wheatears in male-pliunage. Common Eider 

 in Ireland. Little . Bittern in Northamptonshire. 

 Increase of the Fulmar Petrel in Orkney and Shet- 

 land. Curlew-Sandpipers in East Renfrew. Black- 

 tailfd Godwit in Ayrshire. Accessory digit and 

 primaries in a Red Grouse 

 The late A. W. .Jolinson (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 

 Letters : — The Geese and the Wigeon of Iceland. 



Large chitches of eggs laid by birds in Iceland 

 Review : — Clare Island Survey .- Aves 



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