BRinSMDIRDS 



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



ASSISTED BY 



E-EV. F. C. R. JotJRDAIN, M.A.^ M.B.O.U., AND NoRMAN F. 



TiCEHURST, M.A., P.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 12, Vol. IV. Mat 1, 1911. 



PAGE. 



On the Position? Assumed by Birds in Flight — HI. Alighting. By 



Bentley Beetham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 



The ^ligration of the White Stoik. By A. I-andsborough 



Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 



Notes :— 



The Recent '" Remarkable Migration Phenomena " (N. F. 



Ticehurst) 301 



Blyth's Reed Warbler at Fair Isle.— A New British Bird . . 3fi2 



Great Grey Shrike iji Montgomeryshire (H. E. Forrest) . . 363 



Crossbills Breeding in England in 1911 : — 



In Suffolk (P. F. Btmyard) 363 



In Norfolk (B. B. Riviere) 364 



In Kent (C. D. Borrer) 365 



Bee-eater in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . . . 365 



Hoopoe in Winter in Yorkshire (Wm. J. Clarke) . . . . 365 



Rough-legged Buzzard in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 366 



White-tailed Eagle in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . 366 



Peregrine Falcon in Wiltshire (R. O. Mathews) . . . . 366 



Breeding of Shoveler, Tufted Duck, and Garganey in Somer- 

 set (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt) 



Goosander in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 367 



Late Stay of Goosanders in Cheshire (T. A. Coward) . . . . 367 



Nesting of the Great Crested Grebe in Somerset (Rev. F. L. 



Blathwayt) ^^'^ 



;Short Notes :— Lanceolated Warblers in Scotland. :\Iealy 

 Redpoll in Mull. HolboH's Redpoll in Shetland. 

 Northern Bullfinch in Scotland. Northern Great 

 Spotted Woodpecker in Scotland. Spotted Sandpiper 

 in Yorkshire ^''^^ 



Xetters : — The Movements of Yoimg Rooks 370 



A Baikal Teal in Devonshire 370 



366 



