bRIHSHDIRDS 



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 4, Vol. V. September 1, 1911. 



PAGE 



The Return of the Bittern to Norfolk. By Miss E. L. Turner 90 

 Recovery of Marked Birds (Aberdeen University). By A. 



Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U 98 



Mappinoj Migratory Birds. By H. G. Alexander . . . . 103 



Notes : — ■ 



Albinistic Blackbird (R. Oswald Blyth) 106 



White-Spotted Bluethroat in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . . . 106 

 Marsh-Warbler Breeding Numerously in Worcestershire 



(W. Davies) 106 



Introduction of Bearded Tits in Yorkshire (The Editors) . . 108 



The Continental Blue Tit as a British Bird (H. F. Witherby) 109 

 The Northern and the Central-European Crested Tits as 



British Birds (H. F. Witherby) 109 



Grey Wagtails breeding in Surrey (Howard Bentham) . . 110 

 Supposed Southern Grey Shrike in Norfolk — A Correction 



(H. F. Witherby) Ill 



Woodchat Shrike iu Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . Ill 



Quick Growth of a Brood of Swallows (H. W. Robinson) .. Ill 

 Northern Groat Spotted Woodpeckers in Sussex (N. F. 



Ticehurst) 112 



Food of Young Barn-Owls (J. H. Owen) - 112 



Night-Heron in Hampshire (R. Edward Coles) . . . . . . .113 



Tufted Ducks Breeding in Bedfordshire (Fred. Sharman) . . 114 



Caspian Plovers in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 115 



Red-necked, not Grey, Phalarope in Warwickshire — A Cor- 

 rection (A. Geoffrey Leigh) . . . . . . . . . . 115 



Short Notes : — Birds struck by Lightning. Flight of the Swift. 



Abnormally large Cuckoo's Egg. Little Bittern in 



Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. .. ., 115 



The Marking Scheme. . . . . . . . , . . . . , 116 



Letters : — Can the Male influence the Coloration of Eggs ? . . 117 



A Curious Upstroke in Flight .. ,. .. .. 117 

 Review : — Catalogue of Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, 



Brighton .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 119 



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