DRnEHDIPDS 



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 or Number 5, Vol. V. October 2, 1911. 



Page 



The Slender-billed Curlew. A New British Bird. By M. J. Nicoll 124 

 On the English and other Green Woodpeckers. By Dr. Ernst 



Hartert 125 



Notes : — 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . . . 126 



Recovery of Marked Starlings (N. H. Joy and A. Landsborough 



Thomson) 128 



A Marked Arctic Tern (H. F. Witherby) 130 



Fieldfares Swallowing faeces of their Young (Howard Ben- 



thara) 130 



Rock-Thrush in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . . . 130 



A Pair of Robins Building many Nests (J. H. Owen) . . . . 132 



Barred Warbler in Lincolnshire (W. E. Suggitt) . . . . 132 



British Willow-Tit in Lanarkshire (Walter Stewart) . . . . 133 



Unusual Nesting-site of the Grey Wagtail (Rev. F. C. R. 



Jourdain).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 133 



Pied Flycatchers Breeding in Devonshire (Charles Collier) . . 134 

 Numbers of Young in Broods of Swallows and House-Martins 



in 1911 (H. W. Robinson) 135 



Quick Growth of a Brood of Swallows and a Possible Cause 



(Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 135 



Roller in Devonshire (Arthur Bankes) . . . . . . . . 136 



Young Cuckoo in the Nest of a Bullfinch (J. H. Owen) . . 136 



Yomig Great Spotted Woodpeckers (J. H. Owen) . . . . 137 



Probable Breeding of the Little Owl in Berkshire (Capt. B. 



Van de Weyer) ^ 138 



Extermination of the Sea-Eagle in Ireland (Rev. F. C. R. 



Jourdain) . , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . 138 



Snow-Geese in Essex (A, Landsborough Thomson) . . . , 139 

 Tufted Ducks Breeding in Bedfordshire (The Duchess of Bed- 

 ford) 139 



Breeding of the Great Black-backed Gull inland in Ireland 



(Major H. Trevelyan) . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 



Sooty Shearwaters off the West Coast of Ireland (The Duchess 



of Bedford 141 



Fulmar Breeding in Ireland (H. F. Witherby) . . . . . . 141 . 



Short Notes : — Three Broods of Blackbirds reared from one 

 Nest. Golden Oriole seen in Yorkshire. Swallows 

 Nesting in a Tree. Hoopoes Breeding in Confinement. 

 Green Sandpiper in the Outer Hebrides. The late Mr. 

 Alexander Williams .. .. .. .. .. 143 



Reviews : — The Grouse in Health and in Disease . . . . . . 145 



The North Staffordshire Field Club: Annual Report and 



Transactions, 1910-11 . . .. .. .. .. 147 



