DRmSHDIRDS 



p:dited by h. f. witherbv, f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. E. Jourdaix, 3i.a., 3i.b.o.u., and Norjian F. 



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



Contents of Number 2, Vol. V. July 1, 1911. 



PAGE 



A Memoir of Robert Service. By Hugh S. Gladstone . . . . 34 



On a Peculiar Type of Feather in the Water-Rail. B\' J. Lewis 



Bonhote, M.A 42 



Notes : — 



On the Persistence of the Riglit Ovary and its Duct in Birds 



(Cecilia Picchi) . . . . . . . . . . 45 



Rare Birds in Sussex (J. B. Nicliois) . . . . . . . . 49 



Black-throated Thrush in Kent (N. F. Ticehurst) . . . . 50 



Nightingale Nesting in Herefordshire (W. S. !Medlicott) . . 51 



Little Owls in Lincolnshire (Captain C. E. Stracey Clitherow) 51 



Red Grouse in Berkshire (Dr. W. M. Woodhouse) . . . . 51 



Cranes in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . 52 

 Ringed Plover Breeding Inland in Northumberland (George 



T. Atchison) 53 



Black Tern in Bedfordsliire (Lawrence Fleet) . . . . . . 54 



White-winged Black Terns in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay). . 54 



Black-throated Diver in Carnarvonshire (R. W. Jones) . . 54 

 Slaughter of Manx Shearwaters by Black-backed Gulls 



(H. W. Robinson) 55 



Fulmars Nesting in Caithness (A. H. Meiklejohn) . . . . 56 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . . . 56 



Short Notes : — Cuckoo in Goldcrest's Nest. Scottish Heronries, 

 Cock Pheasants Assuming Male-like Plumage. Black- 

 cock Assuming Female-like Plumage. Mealy Redpolls 



in Scotland in the Autumn of 1910 . . . . . . 58 



