BRITI5nDIW)5 



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 Norbian F. 



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



Contents of Number 8, Vol. IV. January 2, 1911. 



The Irish Jay. Garrubis glandarius hibernicus subsp. nov. By 



H. F. Witherby and E. Hartert . . . . . . .". 234 



Recapturing Marked Birds. By C. B. Ticehurst. . . . . . 236 



Notes : — 



Recovery of Marked Bii'ds . . . . . . . . . . 240 



A Marked Black-headed Gull (C. B. Ticehurst) . . . . 241 



The Down-Plumage and Mouth-Coloration of some Nestling 



Birds (Eric B. Dunlop) . . .. .. .. .. .. 241 



Land-Birds seen on board-ship between London and Port 



Said (Major H. A. F. Magrath) 242 



Removal of Fceces by Birds (John R. B. Masefield) . . . . 245 



Notes on Hampshire Birds (Sir Thomas H. C. Troubridge, Bart. ) 245 

 Continental Robins, Song-Thrushes, and Goldcrests in East 

 Anglia, Yorkshu-e, Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight 



(C. B. Ticehurst and H. F. Witherby) 245 



Immigration of Continental Great-Tits in Norfolk, Suffolk, 



Kent and SciUy (C. B. Ticehurst, H. F. W., and N. F. T.) 247 

 The British Willow-Tit in Suffolk (C. B. Ticehurst) . . . . 248 

 Numbers of Young in the Broods of Swallows and House- 

 Martins in 1910 (H. W. Robinson) 249 



Albinistic Variety of Greenfinch (M. Winzar Compton) . . 249 



Northern Bullfinch in Yorkshire (H. F. Witherby) . . . . 250 



The Crossbill Irruption . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 



Egg-daubing by the Jackdaw (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . 250 



Hoopoe and Spoonbill in Montgomeryshire (H. E. Forrest) . . 251 

 Iceland Falcons in Shropshire — an Early Record (H. E. 



Forrest) 251 



Squacco Heron in Lincolnshire (G. H. Caton Haigh) . . . . 252 



American Blue-winged Teal in Ireland (H. F. Witherby) . . 252 



Black-winged Stilt in Sussex (N. F. Ticehurst) 252 



Red-necked Phalarope in Norfolk (S. G. Cummings) . . . . 253 



Great Skua in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . . . 254 



Manx Shearwater in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . 254 



Short Notes : — Influx of Northern Birds. Feeding-habits of the 

 Rook. Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Scotland. 

 Nesting of the Gadwall and Wigeon in " Forth." The 

 American Wigeon recorded from Anglesey. Sociable 

 Plovers in Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 



Reviews : — Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb, 



1874-1909 257 



IX. Jahresbericht (1909) der Vogelwarte Rossitten der 



Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft . . . . 259 



Letters : — L^nequal Wing-strokes in Flight . . . . . . 261 



The Generic names of our Swallows . . . . . . 261 



