EDITED liY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.13.0.1T. 



assisted by 

 Rev. F. C. R. Jourdajn, m.a., m.b.o.tj., and Norman F. 

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



Contents of No. 4, Vol. IX. September 1, 19 IT). 



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Notes on the Breeding-habits of the Asiatic Golden Plover. 

 By Miss M. D. Haviland 



Screened and Open Nests of Redslianks. By C. W. Colthrup DO 



Notes : — 



Birds' Method of Eating Butterflies (C. W. Colthrup) . . <i2 



Adder Eating young Birds (C. W. Colthrup) . . . . !)2 



Rustic Bunting in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . . . ".t2 



The Norfolk Ashy-headed Wagtail now identified as a 



Grey-headed Wagtail (J. H. Gurney) . . . . . . '.t3 



Nesting Territory claimed by male Tree-Pipit (C. W. 



Colthrup) . ^ <)3 



Nest Material used by Blackcaps (R. M. Barrington) . . 93 



Wrens using " Cock's " Nest for Second Brood (S. Kendall 



Barnes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1: 



Wren's long Incubation of Infertile Eggs (J. H. Owen) . . 94 



Curious Position of Dipper's Nest (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 94 



Large Flock of Alpine Swifts in Kent (Archbishop A. H. 



Mathew) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <),") 



Adult Cuckoo killing nestling Meadow-Pipits (C. E. 



Milburn) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,") 



Cuckoo's Eggs and Nestlings in 1915 (J. H. Owen). . . . 9() 



Lesser Kestrel in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . . . . . 97 



Little Ringed Plover in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . . . 97 



American Pectoral Sandpiper in Sussex (H. W. Ford- 

 Lindsay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 



Curlew and Common Snipe nesting in Sussex (C. W. 



Colthrup) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9S 



Caspian Terns in Kent (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 9S 



Sooty Terns in Kent (J. B. Nichols) . . . . . . . . 98 



Short Notes : — Irish Names of Birds. Rare Birds in Shetland. 

 Birds in Norfolk in 1914. Jays in Co. Cork. Dart- 

 ford Warbler in Staffordshire. Tengmalm's Owl 

 in Scotland. King-Eider in Orkney. Systematic 

 Position of the Ruff and of the Semi-Palmated 

 Sandpiper . . . . . . . . . . . . ys 



