BRITlSnDIPDS 



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. 



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



Contents of Number 7, Vol. IV. December 1, 1910. 



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On the Positions assumed by Birds in FHght — II. Steering, 



Slowing-up, and Turning. By Bentley Beetham, F.Z.S. 

 The "British Birds" Marking Scheme. Progress for 1910 and 



Plans for the future. By H. F. Witherby . . 

 Notes : — 



Recovery of Marked Birds 



Barred Warbler in Norfolk (Clifford Borrer) 



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



Four Long-tailed Tits to one Nest (Dr. J. Wiglesworth) 



Great Tit Nesting in Hedges (C. W. Colthrup) 



Tawny Pipit in Norfolk (Clifford Borrer) 



Behaviour of the Greenfinch at the Nest (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 



Northern Bullfinch in Shetland (John S. TuUoch) 



Crossbills Nesting in England — In Kent (Rev. J. R. Hale and 



T. P. Aldworth) 



Increase of Starlings in Cornwall and Devon (W. S. M. 



D'Urban) 



The Continental Jay in Kent and Sussex (N. F. Ticehurst) 

 Supposed Egg-daubing by the Jackdaw (H. M. Wallis and 



Edward Earle) 

 Shore-Lark in Ireland (Richard M. Barrington) 

 The Persistence of the Right Ovary and its Duct 

 Sparrow-Hawk (F. Menteith Ogilvie and F. 

 Jourdain) 

 Pintails in Staffordshi-e (W. Wells Bladen) . . 

 Wigeon in Summer in Staffordshire (F. A. Monckton) 

 Long-tailed Duck in Cheshire (T. A. Coward) . . 

 Ringed Plovers' Unusual Clutches (C. W. Colthrup) . . 

 Avocets in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Black-throated Diver in Westmorland (D. G. Garnett) 

 Notes on Birds in Orkney in 1910 (Rev. J. R. Hale and T. 

 Aldworth) 



Short Notes : — Notes on British Birds in Confinement. Fire- 

 crested Wren in Sussex. Red-backed Shrikes in Ireland, 

 Wryneck in Roxburgh. Greenland Falcons in Suther- 

 land and Ross. Kestrel Catching a Bat. Pinioned 

 Whooper Swans Nesting in Shetland. Ruddy Sheld- 

 Ducks in Caithness. Eggs of the Reeve from Lan- 

 cashire. Ruffs and Spotted Redshanks in East Renfrew. 

 Spotted Redshank near Aberdeen. Black-tailed God wit 

 in Ross-shire. Black Terns in Surrey. Increase of 

 Breeding Colonies of the Black-headed Gull. Manx 

 Shearwater in Wiltshire . . 

 — The Birds of Dumfriesshire 

 The Home-LifeoftheSpoonbiU,theStorkandsome Herons 

 — The Generic Names of our Swallows . . 

 The Positions assumed by Birds in Flight 

 Unequal Wing-strokes in Flight . . 



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