DRITBriDIPDS 



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., p.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 6, Vol. V. November 1, 1911. 



Notes on the Breeding habits of some of our Winter Migrants in 

 the Swedish provinces of Jemtland and Lapland. By W. G. 

 Sheldon, F.E.S .. 150 



The " British Birds " Marking Scheme. Progress for 1911 and 



some results. By H. F. Witherby . . . . . . . . 158 



Notes : — - 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . 163 



Return of Marked Swifts to their Breeding places (Rev. 



F. C. R. Jourdain) 165 



Three Broods of Blackbirds reared in one Nest (W. J. Clarke) 165 

 Nesting of the Grey Wagtail far from Water (Herbert Massey) 165 

 A pair of Robins building many Nests (H. E. Forrest) . . 166 



Hawfinches adapting a Nest of the Song-Thrush (Sydney H. 



Smith) 166 



Slender-billed Nutcracker in Buckinghamshire (Edwin Hollis) 167 

 Hoopoes in Merioneth and Shropshire (H. E, Forrest) . . 167 



Late Date for a Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Borrer) .. .. 167 



Spotted Crake in Warwickshire (A. Geoffrey Leigh) . . . . 168 



Water-Rails as Migrants (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . 168 



Grey Phalarope in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . , 169 



Blue Eggs of Common Tern (Clifford Borrer) . . . . . . 169 



Increase of Great Black-backed Gulls in Ireland (R, J. Ussher) 170 

 Arctic and Pomatorhine Skuas and Sabine's Gulls in Yorkshire 



(T. H. Nelson) 170 



Fork-tailed Petrels in North Wales (R. W. Jones and H. E. 



Forrest) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 171 



Short Notes : — Continental Robin in Soutli - west Scotland. 

 Northern Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Scotland. 

 Wood-Sandpiper in Fifeshire. Breeding of the 

 Great Black-backed Gull inland in Ireland .. .. I71 



Reviews — A Fauna of the Tweed Area . . . . . . . . 172 



Report on the Immigrations of Summer residents in the 

 Spring of 1910 ; also notes on the Migratory Move- 

 ments and Records receired from Lighthouses and 

 Light-vessels during the Av tumn of l^QQ .. .. 175 



