EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, 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 3, Vol. V. August 1, 1911. 



Walter Charleton and his " Onomasticon Zoicon." By W. H. page 



Mullens, M.A., LL.M., F.L.S 64 



The Alpine Ring-Ouzel. A New British Bird. By M. J. Nicoll 72 



Notes : — 



Bittern Breeding in Norfolk 



Isabelline Wheatear in Sussex (N. F. Ticehurst) 



Abnormal Song of Wood- Warbler (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 



Wren rearing a Brood in an old Nest (T. R. Ward) 



Southern Grey Shrike in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) 



Hatching of Abnormally shaped Eggs of Spotted Flycatcher 



(H. L. Cochrane) 

 Siskins in Herefordshire (W. S. Medlicott) 

 Down-distribution of Nestling Birds (Eric B. Dunlop) 

 Green Woodpecker in Westmorland (Eric B. Dunlop) 

 Barn-Owls occupying a Jackdaw's Nest (Capt. C. E. Stracey 



Clitherow) 

 The Results of "Ringing" Common Herons in Denmark 



(Claud B. Ticehurst) 



Long-tailed Duck in Kent and Sussex in March (N. F. Tice- 

 hurst) 

 Common Scoter Breeding in Ireland (Major Herbert 



Trevelyan) 

 Dotterel in Lanarkshire (Walter Stewart) 

 White- winged Black Terns in Norfolk (J. H. Gurney) 

 Nesting of the Common Tern in the Isle of Man (M. V. 



Wenner) . . 

 Sooty Tern in Sussex (Arthur F. Griffith) 

 Herring-Gull's Nest with Five Eggs (H. W. Robinson) 

 Extraordinary Devotion of some Birds to their Nests (H. W. 

 Ford-Lindsay) , . 



Short Notes: — Birds in Norfolk in 1910. Uncommon Birds in 

 the Glasgow district. Interbreeding of Song-Thrush 

 and Blackbird. Nightingale in Scotland. Cuckoo in 

 Goldcrest's Nest. Icterine Warbler in Shetland. Pied 

 Flycatcher in Haddingtonshire. Alpine Swift in 

 Hampshire. " Luminous Owls." Marsh-Harrier in 

 Kent. Honey-Buzzard's Nest in Durham. Osprey in 

 Renfrewshire. Wigeon Breeding in Argyllshire. 

 Courtship of Red-breasted Merganser. Turtle-Dove at 

 the Isle of May . 82 



Letters : — The Plumages of the Guillemot and Razorbill . , 87 



" On a peculiar Type of Feather in the Water-Rail " . . 87 



Rats and Manx Shearwaters . . . . . . . . 88 



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