DRITISnDIRDS 



EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBV, 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., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 7, Vol. X. November 1, 1916. 



The Moults of the British Passeres, with Notes on the 



Sequence of their Plumages. Part VI. By H. F. Witherby. 126 



Captain Cecil Stanley Meares. . . . . . . . . . . 135 



Notes : — 



Rooks Building in Chimneys (W. P. Westell) . . . . 137 



Cetti's Warbler in Sussex (G. V. Webster) 137 



Bluethroat in Sussex (E. C. Arnold) 137 



Late Nesting of Swallow in Cheshire (F. W. Dewhurst) . . 137 



Numbers of Young in Broods of Swallows in Lancashire in 



1915 and 1916 (H. W. Robinson) 138 



Large Increase in Nesting House-Martins in Lancashire in 



1915 and 1916 (H. W. Robinson). . 139 



Four Eggs in a Nightjar's Nest (C. Borrer) . . . . . . 139 



Unusual Site for Kingfisher's Nest (R. C. Banks) . . . . 141 



Cuckoos' Eggs and Nestlings in 1916 (J. H. Owen) . . . . 141 



Habits of Young and Possible Double-Brood of Common 



Buzzard (A. H. Machell Cox) 142 



Green-winged Teal with Four Wings . . . . . , . , 143 



Possible Nesting of Quail in Cambridgeshire (Miss M. D. 



Haviland) 144 



Short Notes : — Probable Carrion-Crow off co. Dublin. Sup- 

 posed Red-backed Shrikes in Ireland. Lesser 

 Whitethroat Breeding in Northumberland and 

 Cumberland, and probably in Kirkcudbrightshire. 

 Continental Redbreast in Fifeshire. Wryneck in 

 Aberdeenshire. Great Crested Grebes breeding in 

 east Fifeshire. Black-tailed Godwits in Ireland. 

 Roseate Tern off co. Wexford. Little Gull in 

 Lanarkshire. Scandinavian Lesser Black-backed 

 Gull in Fifeshire. Water-Rail at St. Kilda . . 145 



Letter : — ^Habits of Sparrow-Hawks (E. G. B. Meade-Waldo) 146 



Reviews : — The Birds of Britain, their Distribution and Habits. 

 Index of Genera and Sjjecies referred to in the ^' Ibis,'' 

 I895-19i2. 147 



