DRHHIDIPDS 



EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, ai.a., im.b.o.u., and Norman F. 



ticehurst, m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 12, Vol. V. May 1, 1912. 



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On Incubation. By Eric B. Dunlop . . . . . . , . 322 



Notes : — 



Isabelline Wheatear in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay). . . . 328 



Probable Northern Long-tailed Tits in Essex (Walter B. 



Nichols) 328 



British Willow-Tits in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Warwick- 

 shire (T. A. Coward, A. Geoffrey Leigh, and A. W. Boyd) . . 328 

 The Green Woodpecker's Method of Extracting Larvae from 



Willows (J. W. Smalls) 329 



Does the Male or Female Woodpecker Bore the Nesting-Hole ? 



(F. Tapsell) 332 



Actions of a Kingfisher on the Water (R. C. Banks) . . . . 333 



Little Owl in South Devon (A. H. Machell Cox) . . . . 333 



Supposed Former Abundance of the Glossy Ibis (E. Eraser 



Stanford) 334 



Movements of Brent Geese on the Coast of Northumberland 



(J. M. Charlton) 334 



Early Nesting of Common Snipe in Wiltshire (F. G. Penrose) 336 



Sale of Two Eggs of the Great Auk (Edward Bidwell) . . . . 336 



The 1912 " Wreck " of the Little Auk 337 



Fulmars Breeding in Orkney (W. J. Balfour Kirke) . . . . 338 



Some Uncommon Occurrences in West Somerset (F. H. L. 



Whish) 338 



Recovery of Marked Birds. Corrections . . . . . . 340 



Short Notes : — Reed- Warblers in Ireland. Swallow in Corn- 

 wall in February. Mealy Redpolls in Lanark. Shags 

 in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Bittern in Argyllshire. 

 Goosanders in Derbyshire. Plumage of the Young- 

 Red Grouse. Black-tailed Godwit in Donegal in 

 Winter. Black-necked Grebe in East Ross. Slavonian 

 Grebe 340 



Review : — The Migration of Birds . . . . . . . . . . 342 



