BRITlSnDIRDS 



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



assisted by 



Eev. E. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.ij., and J!^okman E. 



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



Contents of Number 1, Vol. V. June 1, 1911. 



PAGE 



On the Distribution of the Nightingale during the Breeding 

 Season in Great Britain. By N. F. Ticehurst and the Rev. 

 F. C. R. Jourdain . . 2 



Notes : — 



Rare Birds in Staffordshire (John R. B. Masefield) . . . . 22 



Rapid Nest-building by ^Vlistle-Thrush and Blackbird (T. R. 



Ward) 23 



White-spotted Bluethroat and Red-necked Phalarope in 



Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 23 



Extraordinary Abvindance of Nightingales in Shropshire 



(H. E. Forrest) " 23 



Grey Wagtail Breeding in Surrey (P. F. Bunyard) . . . . 24 



The Two-barred Crossbill in Scotland (George Bolam) . . 24 



Green Woodpecker in Westmorland (Huhne Wilson) . . . . 25 



Probable Snow-Geese in Essex (A. Landsborough Thomson) . . 25 



Common Scoter in West Yorkshire (Major Walter B. Arundel) 26 



Grey Phalarope in Warwickshire (A. Geoffrey Leigh). . . . 26 



Voracity of the larger Gulls (Clifford Borrer) . . . . . . 27 



Herring-Gull and Shag Occupying Disused Ravens' Nests 



(W. I. Beaumont) 27 



Great Northern Diver Swallowing a Cuttle-fish (H. W. 



Robinson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 



Black-Throated Divers in Sussex and Surrey (H. W. Ford- 

 Lindsay and Howard Bentham) . . . . . . . . 28 



Short Notes : — Siberian Chiffchaff in Shetland. Northern 

 Willow-Wren in Scotland. Nuthatch in Ireland. 

 Siskins in Mull. Hobby in Elgin. Wigeon Breeding 

 in Roxburghshire. Albino Wood-Pigeons. Common 

 Gull Breeding in the Fame Islands . . . . . . 28 



Letters : — Albinistic Rooks found to contain Parasites . . . . 30 



The Movements of Young Rooks . . . . . . 30 



Review : — Photography jar Bird-Lovers . . . . . . . . 31 



