INDEX. 



385 



ber of Yoimg in Broods of, 254 ; 

 Increase or Decrease of, 309. 



Masefield, John R. B., Notes on 

 Return of a Marked Swallow- 

 to its Breeding-place, 13 ; 

 Hooded Crow in Staffordshire, 

 184 ; Tits and Humble-bees, 

 185 ; Birds Breeding in Old 

 Nests, 187 ; Pomatorhine Skua 

 in Staffordshire, 281. 



Massey, Herbert, Notes on Early- 

 Nesting of Moorhen, 22 ; Early 

 laying of Cuckoo, 122. Letter 

 on Sporadic Nesting and the 

 Crossbill, 263. 



Mathews, Gregory M., The Late 

 John Gerrard Keulemans, 58. 



Mayall, Rev. A., Note on Number 

 of Fulmars on Handa, 124. 



Meade-Waldo, E. G. B., Notes on 

 Food of the Little Owl, 64 ; 

 Chiffchaffs and Wheatear in 

 February in the Isle of Wight, 

 344. 



Meares, C. S., Letters on Sporadic 

 Nesting, 130, 196 ; Flank- and 

 Chest-Feathers, 352. Note on 

 Crossbills breeding in Norfolk 

 and Shropshire, 371. 



media, Gallinago, see Snipe, Great. 



megarhyncha, Luscinia m., see 

 Nightingale. 



melanocephala, Emheriza, see Bunt- 

 ing, Black-headed. 



Mellersh, W. Lock, Unrecorded 

 Snow-Geese in Gloucester- 

 shu-e, 191. 



melophilus, Dandalus r., see Red- 

 breast. 



merganser, Mcrgus m., see Goos- 

 ander. 



Merganser, Red-breasted, in Car- 

 narvonshire in April and May, 

 20 ; Recovery of Marked, 100. 



m,erula, Turdus m., see Blackbird. 



Migration, Studies in Bird, re- 

 viewed, 79. 



Migration, Early, and the Weather, 

 150 ; Notes from Holy Island, 

 Northumberland, 202 ; Re- 

 port on the Immigrations of 

 Summer Residents in the Spring 

 oj 1911, reviewed, 322. 



minor, Lanius, see Shrike, Lesser 

 Grey. 



m,imtta. Sterna m., see Tern, Little. 



m,inutus, Ixohrychus, see^ Bitteni, 



Little. 



, Larus, see Gull, Little. 



modularis. Prunella m., see Sparrow, 



Hedge-, Continental. 

 mollissim,a, Somateria m., see Eider, 



Common. 

 Moore, J., Note on Night-Heron in 



Cheshii-e, 156. 

 Moorhen, Early nesting of, 22, 



70, 375 ; Incubation of, 29 ; 



Nests of. Screened with Domes 



of Reeds, 69. 

 morinellus, Charadrius, see Dotterel. 

 Mullens, W. H., Robert Sibbald 



and his Prodromus, 34. 

 muraria, Tichodroma, see Creeper, 



Wall-. 



nebularia, Tringa, see Greenshank. 

 Nests and Nesting-sites, Curious, 



14, 15, 66, 69, 90, 125, 128, 



155, 157, 162, 187. 

 newtoni. Par us m., see Tit, Great, 



British. 

 NiCHOLL, A. M. C, Note on Aquatic 



Warbler and Marsh-Warbler 



in the Isle of Wight, 344. 

 Nichols, J. B., Notes on Eastern 



Large-billed Reed-Bunting in 



Sussex, 153 ; Rare Birds in 



Sussex, 184. 

 Nichols, Walter B., Note on 



Glossy Ibises in Essex, 223. 

 NicoLL, M. J., Note on Whiskered 



Tern in Suffolk, 374. 

 Nightingale, Notes on the Breeding- 

 habits of, 170 ; Increase or 



Decrease of, 308 ; Unusual 



Abundance of, 323. 

 nigra, Hydrochelidon n., see Tern, 



Black. 

 ■ ; Oidemia n., see Scoter, 



Common. 

 nigricollis, Colymbus n., see Grebe, 



Black-necked. 

 nisoria, Sylvia n., see Warbler, 



Barred. 

 nisus, Accipher n., see Hawk, 



Sparrow-. 

 Noble, Heatley, Note on Cuckoos 



laying in Rock-Pipits' Nests, 



223. 

 noctua, Athene n., see Owl, Little. 

 Nomenclature used in British 



Birds, Note on, 1. 



