BRITISnDIRDS 



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



assisted by 



Rfv. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman F. 

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



Contents of Numbek 4, Vol. IV. September 1, 1910. 



Sequence of Plumages in British Birds. VI. — The British 



Long-tailed, Great, Coal, Marsh and Blue Titmice, by H. F, 



Witherby . . 



Recent Records from Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcester 



by Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain and H. F. Witherby 

 Notes : — 



Recovery of Marked Birds 



Unequal Wing-Strokes in Flight (F. W. Headley) 



Blackbirds and Song-Thrushes Nesting on the Ground 



(T. Smith) 



Ring-Ouzel and Blackbird interbreeding in Kent (J. Lewis 

 Bonhote) . . 



Rock-Thrush in Orkney (H. F. W.) 



Unusual Nesting-Sites for the Goldcrest (A. W. H. Harvey and 



F. A. Monckton) 

 Willow- Wren feigning Injury (C. Kingsley Siddall) . . 

 Grasshopper-Warbler in Cornwall (A. W. H. Harvey) 

 Golden Oriole in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Great Tit laying in a Hawfinch's deserted Nest (Major F. W. 



Proctor) . . 

 Spotted Flycatcher building in old Nests (A. G. Leigh) 

 Crossbills nesting : — Probable in Lincolnshire (Rev. F. 

 Blathwayt) 



In Somerset 

 Crossbill Irruption 



Increase of the Starling in Cornwall (A. W. H. Harvey) 

 Rough-legged Buzzards in Sussex and Berkshire (Herbert 



Langton and Norman H. Joy) 

 Kestrel Nesting near London (Jos. F. Green) . . 

 Increase of the Tufted Duck in Cheshire (M. V. Wenner) 

 Green Sandpipers in Berkshire and Derbyshire (Norman H 



Joy and Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 

 A new Nesting-Colony of Black-headed Gulls in Montgomery 



shire (H. E. Forrest) 

 On the Food of the Herring-Gull (H. W. Robinson) . . 

 Unusual situation for a Little Grebe's Nest (M. V. Wenner) 

 Short Notes : — Red-spotted Bluethroat in the Clyde Area, 

 Lesser Whitethroat in the Clyde Area. A Peeblesshire Chough 

 Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Scotland. Supposed Bee-eater 

 in Norfolk. American Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Argyllshire, 

 Little Bittern in Cornwall. Eider Ducks in the Clyde Area . 

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