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EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, 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 Xumber 11, Vol. VI. April 1, 191.3. 



Henry Jolin Peareon. A :\Iemoii-. By Colonel H. W. Feilden 

 Notes on Mortality in Nestling Cuckoos. By J. H. Owen 



Note on the Ejection of the I.ining-membrane of the Gizzard 



by the Curlew. By H. Hammond Smith 

 Are Starlings Double or Single Brooded ? By N. F. Ticehurst 



Abnormal Feathers of a Domestic Pigeon. By Aiuiie C. 

 Jackson 



Notes : — 



The Hebridean Song-Thrush 



Crossbills Breeding in Bedfordshire and Hampshii-e (The 

 Duchess of Bedford and Sir Thomas H. C. Troubridge, Bart. ) 

 Sky-Lark as Foster-parent of Cuckoo (C. V. Stoney) . . 



Bearded Tit in Essex (Miller Christy) 



Firecrest in Gloucestershire (D. Mimro Smith) 



Probable Inheritance of Egg-colom- in Spotted Flycatcher 

 (J. H. Owen) 



Chiffchaffs and Wheatear in Winter in the British Isles (E. G. B. 

 Meade- Waldo and R. W. Jones) 



Aquatic Warbler and Marsh-Warbler in the Isle of Wight 



(A. M. C. Nieholl) ^. . 



Black Redstart in Sm-rey (Allen Silver) 

 Notes for 1912 from Yorkshire (W. J. Clarke) 



Hybrid Wigeon and Teal (J. Beddall Smith) 



The " Bimaculated Duck " (H. F. Witherby) . . 

 Great Mortality among Shags in Orkney (H. W. Robinson) . . 

 Cream-coloured Coursers in Kent (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Bar-tailed Godwits in Orkney (The Duchess of Bedford) 

 Woodcock's Diseased Feet (N. F. Ticehurst) . . 

 Short Notes : — Male Pied Flycatcher returning to nesting- 

 place without a mate. Coiu-tship of the Blackcock. 

 Rare Migrants in Scottish Islands 

 Letter : — Flank- and Chest-feathers 



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