BRITBnDIRDS 



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

 ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Ntjmbeb 7. December 2, 1907. 



A Memoir of Howard Saunders, by Abel Chapman ... ... Page 197 



Some Observations on the Breeding Habits of the Eed-neckcd 



Phalarope, by P. H. Bahr, B.A., m.b.o.u. ... ... ... 202 



On Birds Represented in tlie British Isles by Peculiar Forms, 



by Ernst Hartert, ph.d. ... ... ... ... .. 208 



The Semi-Palmated Sandpiper (Ereunetes pusiUusJ in Kent, by 



N. F. Ticehurst 223 



Notes: — Economic Ornithology (W.P.P.). The Tongue- 

 marts in Young Birds (W.P.P.). The Soaring of Birds 

 (W. W. Lowe). Woodchat in Kent (H. C. Alexander). 

 Icterine Warbler in Norfolk (E. C. Arnold). Titmice and 

 otlier Birds Covering ujj their Eggs (Francis C. R. 

 Jourdain, E. G-. B. Meade- Waldo, and others). The First 

 British Example of the White-spotted Bluethroat (T. H. 

 Nelson). G-rouse- Disease. The Movement of the Beak in 

 Snipe. American Pectoral Sandpipers in Sussex (N. F. 

 Ticehurst and E. C. Arnold). The Breeding Habits of 

 the Pectoral Saudjjiper. Bonaparte's Sandpiper in Kent 

 (N. F. Ticehurst). Red-breasted Snipe in Kent (N. F. 

 Ticehurst). The Food of the Black-headed Gull (T. 

 Harrison). Nesting of the Lesser Tern in the Outer 

 Hebrides (The Duchess of Bedford), etc., etc. ... ... 224 



Letter :— " The Birds of Yorkshire " (William Eagle Clarke) ... 233 



Reviews : — Notes on the Birds of Kent. A Bird Collector's 



Medley. Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary 234 



HOWARD SAUNDERS. 



In the death of Howard Saunders ornithology has lost one 

 of the keenest intellects and most devoted workers — and 

 these number not a few — that have adorned our branch of 

 science ; while many of us have lost in him a personal 

 friend of the truest and best. My acquaintance with 

 Howard Saunders dates back to 1872 when, on my return 

 from a year spent in the Spanish Peninsula, he wrote 

 asking for a list of the birds met with therein. Even that 

 first letter illustrated the peculiar faculty he possessed of 



