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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 7, Vol. V. December 1, 1911. 



Photographing the Black-throated Diver and Grey Lag-Goose. 



By Oliver G. Pike, F.R.P.S., F.Z.S 178 



Notes : — 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . 186 



Icterine Warbler in Norfolk (Dr. F. Penrose) . . . . . . 188 



Supposed Reed-Warbler in Merioneth (H. E. Forrest) . . 188 



Late Nesting of the Great Tit (Rev. W. 8erle) 188 



Willow-Tit in Worcestershire and Herefordshire (C. J. 



Alexander) 189 



White Wagtails in Autumn in Ireland (H. F. Witherby) . . 189 

 Albinism and Xanthocroism in the Pied Wagtail (A. Geoffrey 



Leigh) 189 



Four House-Martins Feeding Young in One Nest (J. S. T. 



Walton) 190 



The Migration of Slender-billed Nutcrackers : 



In Norfolk (J. H. Gurney) 191 



In Suffolk (Rev. J. G. Tuck) 192 



On the Continent (Rev. F. C. R. Jom-dain) . . . . 192 



Jays in London (Howard Bentham) . . . . • . . . 192 



Nightjar Frequenting a Beehive (H. E. Forrest) . . . . 193 



On the Climbing Movements of the Great Spotted Woodpecker 



(A. Geoffrey Leigh) 193 



Northern Great Spotted Woodpecker in Northumberland 



(N. F. Ticehurst) 194 



Young Tawny Owl Feigning Death when Confronted with 



Danger (M. V. Wenner) 194 



Little Owl in Herefordshire and Worcestershire (C. J. 



Alexander) . . . . . . . • . . • • • • 195 



Whimbrel in Worcestershire (C. J. Alexander) . . . . 195 



Blue Eggs of Common Tern (M. Vaughan and G. J. van Oordt) 196 

 Sabine's and Little Gulls, and Grey Phalaropes, in Norfolk 



(Clifford Borrer) 197 



Black-headed Gull in Worcestershire (C. J. Alexander) . . 197 



Puffin in Berkshire (Dudley W. Collings) 

 Manx Shearwater in Ciunberland (Marjory Garnett) 

 Bulwer's Petrel in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Cawnoge, the Irish for " Shearwater" (R. J. Ussher) 

 Fulmars in Orkney and Shetland (Thos. Ground) 

 The late Eugene William Gates . . 

 Short Notes : — Golden Oriole in Herefordshire. Scop 



Ireland. Night-Heron in Yorkshire. Spoonbill in 

 Lincolnshire. Long-tailed Duck breeding in Orkney. 

 Grey Phalarope in South Wales. Black-tailed Godwit 

 in Ireland. Great Skua off Ayrshire 

 Reviews : — The Home-Life of the Osprey . . 

 The Life of the Common Gull . . 

 Birds and Bird's Nests of Bromsgrove . . 

 Letter : — Bulletin B.O.C. — A Correction . . 



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