BRITI5nDIW)5 



EDITED BY II. E. WITIIERBV, E.Z.S., MB.O.U. 



assisted by 



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



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



Contents of Number 2, Vol. IV. July 1, 1910. 



PAGE 



Memoir of Boyd Alexande-, by N. F. Ticehurst. (Plate 1.) . . 34 



On the Nesting of the Marsh-Warbler in Cambridgeshire, by 



William Farren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 



Notes : — 



On the Breeding of the Blackbird (C. Kingsley Siddall) . . 44 



Increase of Lesser Whitethroats in Creuddyn, North Wales 



(R. W. Jones) 45 



Two Lesser Whitethroats laying in the same Nest (Staff 



Surgeon C. E. Cortis Stanford, r.n.) . . . . . . . . 45 



Unusual Nesting-sites for Goldcrest (H. E. Forrest and N. F. 



Ticehurst) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 



Late stay of Brambling (Howard Benthaui and J. K. Stanford) 47 



Crossbills Nesting in England : — 



In Sussex (J. G. Millais and John Walpole-Bond) . . 47 



In Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 



Irruption of Crossbills . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 



Peregrine Falcons at Bempton (T. H. Nelson). . . . . . 53 



Unusual Nesting-site for the Common Snipe (Rev. Julian G. 



Tuck) 53 



The supposed Eggs of the Wood-Sandpiper taken in 



Elginshire in 1853 (H. F. W.) 54 



Little Terns Nesting at Tees Mouth, Yorkshire (Stanley 



Duncan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 



Little Gull in Kent (C. J. Alexander) . . . . . . . . 55 



Death of a Flamborough Cliff -Climber (T. H. Nelson) . . 56 



" A Lost British Bird " (A Correspondent) . . . . . . 57 



Short Notes : — Great Spotted Woodpecker in Scotland. Stock- 

 Dove in Dee. Blackcock and Capercaillie hybrids . . . . 60 



Reviews : — 



The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. The 



Birds of Cheshire . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 



The British Warblers — A History with Problems of their Lives. 



Part IV 62 



