BRHlSnDIPDS 



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. VII. September 1, 1913. 



On the Breeding-season and Clutch of the Steganopodes 

 (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet). By the Rev. F. C. R. 

 Jourdain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94. 



Notes on the Breeding-habits of the Common Eider, as observed 

 in the Outer Hebrides. By Mary G. S. Best and Maud D. 

 Haviland . . 



On Incubation. By Eric B. Dunlop 

 Notes : — 



"Land-Rail" and "Increase and Decrease in Summer 

 Residents " Inquiries (Editors) 



Variation in Tongue-spots of nestling Sky-Lark (Collingwood 

 Ingram) . . 



Unusual Sites for Pied Wagtails' Nests (John R. B. Masefield 

 and J. H. Owen ) 



Willow-Tit nesting in Cheshire (T. A. Coward) . . 



Alpine Ring-Ouzel in Sussex (J. B. Nichols) . . 



Eastern Desert- Wheatear in Kent (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 



Food of a Young Cuckoo (R. B. Lodge) 



Little Owl Breeding in Warwickshire (James R. Starley) 



Ruddy Sheld-Duck in Cheshire (T. A. Coward) 



Common Scoters in Summer — 



In Cheshire and North Wales (T. A. Coward) 



In Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire (C. Oldham) 



Colour of the beak in the Eider (H. W. Robinson) 



Green Sandpiper in Perthshire (Clifford Borrer) 



Black-tailed Godwit in Sussex (H, W. Ford-Lindsay). . 



Little Crake in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 



Moorhen carrying her Young on her Back (John R. B 

 Masefield) 

 Short Notes : — Birds in Norfolk in 1912. Albino House-Martin 



Squacco Heron in co.Cork. Black-throated Diver in co. Mayo 121 

 Review^s : — Aberdeen University Bird- Migration Inquiry : First 



Interim Report. The Food of some British Wild Birds 123 

 Letter : — Tufted Duck Breeding in Essex (W. E. Glegg) . . 124 



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