BRnBnDIW)5 



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 8, Vol. VII. January 1, 1914. 



On the Breeding Habits of the Dartford Warbler. Bj^ Percy F. 



Bunyard . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . 214 



The Dusky Warbler in Orkney : A Xew British Bird . . . . 220 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . . . 224 



Notes : — 



Unusual Birds at Dungeness (H. G. Alexander) . . . . 227 



Diminution of Starlings (J. R. B. Masefield) 227 



Siskins in Anglesey (C. Oldham) . . . . . . . . 228 



Mealy Redpoll in Leicestershire (S. H. Pilgrim) . . . . 228 



Shore-Lark in Bedfordshire (W. Rowan) . . . . . . 228 



Grey Wagtail Breeding in Hampshire (P. W. Munn). . . . 228 



Pied Wagtails rearing two Broods in one Nest (A. G. Leigh 



and H. F. Witherby) 229 



Curious Behaviour of a Young Whitetlu'oat (L. R. W. Loyd) 229 

 Black Redstarts in Lincolnshire and Northumberland (Rev. 



F. L. Blathwayt and H. F. Witherby) 230 



Breeding of the Dipper in Wiltshire (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 230 

 Ring-Ouzel as Foster-Parent of Cuckoo (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt) 231 

 Cuckoo Depositing Egg among Incubated Eggs (H. R. Tutt) 231 

 Courting Habits of the Cuckoo (L. R. W. Loyd) . . . . 231 



Foster-parents of Cuckoo (G. Bolam) . . . . . . . . 232 



Cuckoos' Eggs and Nestlings in 1913 (J. H. Owen) . . . . 233 



Squacco Heron in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 234 



Slavonian Grebe in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) . . . . 235 



Avocets in Gloucestershire (H. W. Robinson) . . . . 235 



Bonaparte's Gull in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 235 



Little Gull in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) . . . . . . 235 



Short Notes : — Scarce birds in Ireland. Whinchat breeding 

 in CO. Cork. Swallows and House-Martin in England 

 in December. Turtle-Dove in Renfrewshire. Wood- 

 Sandpiper and Spotted Redshank in Renfrewshire. 

 Food of Red Grouse. Reports of Quail . . . . 236 



Reviews : — Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in 

 the Spring of 1912. The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie. 

 Our Common Sea-Birds . . . . . . . . . . 239 



Letters : — Green Woodpecker eating an Apple (A. R. Gillman). 

 Breeding-habits and Young of Roseate Terns 

 (Heatley Noble). Herring-Guils Diving (W. J. Clarke, 

 L. R. W. Loyd, and John S. Tulloch). Plumage of 

 the Glaucous Gull (Eric B. Dunlop) 242 



