BROOIDTOS 



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



assisted by 

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



TlCEHURST, M.A., F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 10, Vol. VI. March 1 1 



913. 



29(5 

 298 



Edward Adrian Wilson : Surgeon, Naturalist, Explorer An ^"^^^ 

 Appreciation. By William S. Bruce, LL.D., F.R.S.E." .. 290 



The Late Professor Robert Collett (Alfred Heneage Cocks) . . 294 



Increase and Decrease in Summer Residents 



Editorial Note ..... 



^ M bVu ^^''^ ^^^^ Inquiry." By M. Vaughan;M.A 

 Notes : — 



The " Peewit " Note of the Greenfinch (T. H. Briggs) . . . . 312 

 Richard's Pipit in Lincohishire (G. H. CatonHaigh) .. 312 



WiUow-Tit in Dumfriesshire (H. S. Gladstone) ^ . . " 319 

 YeUow-browed Warbler in Lincolnshire (G. H. Caton Haigh) 313 

 Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, and Swallow wintering in the British 

 A ®o-,^ ^- ^°^a^d, H. W. Mapleton, Duchess of Bedford 

 A. Silver) .' 313 



Brent Goose in Derbyshire (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain). ' 314 



Pintail in Essex (W. E. Glegg) 3j^ 



Little Dusky Shearwater in Kent (N. F. Ticehurst) .' .' " 314 



JB HatT^^"" ^""^ Ba^-*ailed Godwits in Orkney (Rev". 



''rr£rlton;^:'^ ^^^ °^^^^ Xorthun^enand Coa.t 



Short Notes :-Early nests. Scarlet Grosbeak in Ross-shire'. 

 Female Greenland Wlieater in male-plumage. Hoopoe 

 m Forfar. Hobby in Midlotliian. Glossy Ibis in 

 Yorkshire. Little Bittern in Fifeshire. Gadwall 

 nesting in Caithness. Breeding-habits of the Tufted 

 Duck. Reported occurrence of Sand-Grouse in 

 ^orkshu-e. Sandwich Tern nesting in Clyde. Great 

 okua m Bute. . . 



Letters :— Geese and Gulls in Iceland. The Geese of Iceland. 

 Sense of Smell in the Stone-Curlew. The Swallow 

 recovered m Natal. . 



Review -.—Report on the Immigrations of Summer Residents in 



the Sprmg of 1911 g^.. 



31.5 

 315 



316 



319 



