BRIMIDIPDS 



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. 



TlCEHtJRST, M.A., F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 6, Vol. VII. November 1, 1913. 



The Red-throated Diver m its Breeding-haunts. By Miss E. L. 



Turner 

 Dr. L. Bureau's Work on the Partridge. By N. F. Ticehurst 

 Recovery of Marked Birds 

 Notes : — 



Swallow Ringed in Ayrshire and Recovered in the Orange 



Free State (H. F. Witherby) 



Migration Notes from Holy Island, Northumberland. — 



Autumn, 1913 (H. F. Witherby) 



Large Clutches of Goldfinch's Eggs (Cecil Martin) . . 

 Yellow-breasted Bunting in Norfolk (E. C. Arnold) 

 Tree-Pipit and Pied Flycatcher in Ireland (R. M 



Barringtcn) . . 

 Grey Wagtail Breeding in Hampshire (A. W. Marriage) 

 Willow-Tit Breeding in Essex (J. H. Owen) 

 On the Nestlings of the Goldcrest (N. H. Joy) 

 Barred Warbler in Norfolk (E. C. Arnold) . . 

 Rufous Warbler in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 

 Numbers of Young in Broods of Swallows in 1913 



(H. W. Robinson) 



Common Scoters in Summer in Cheshire (J. Moore) 



Late Nesting of the Little Grebe (G. Baynes and 



T. Robinson) . , 

 Little Grebe using same Nest twice in Succession 



(H. Bentham) 

 Green Sandpiper in Orkney (Re\\ J. R. Hale) 

 Stilts in Kent (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Little Auk in August in Ireland (R. M. Barrington) 



Death of Mr. R. J. Ussher 



Short Notes : — Breeding of the Nutcracker in Denmark 

 Tree-Sparrow nesting in co. Donegal. Ring-Ouzel 

 as foster-parent of Cuckoo. Further spread of the 

 Fulmar in Ireland. White Oystercatcher. Diurnal 

 migration at the Tuskar Rock 

 Letters : — Do Rooks Occasionally Breed in their First Year ? 

 (E. B. Dunlop). Diminution of Starlings in Yorkshire 

 (E. W. Wade). Probable Scarlet Grosbeak in Hamp- 

 shire (K. S. Smith). The Sparrow of Rathlin Island 

 (Mary G. S. Best and Maud D. Haviland). The 

 Maternal Instinct of Ducks (E. B. Dunlop), . 



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