BRmsnDIPDS 



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 Xorman F. 

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



Contents of Number 10, Vol. VII. March 2, 1914. 



PAGE 



The Courtship of the Common Gull. By Maud D. Haviland . . 278 

 Xotes on the Birds of Wiltshire. By G. Bathurst Hony, 



M.B.O.U 281 



The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. By Alfred Heneage Cocks 29 1 

 Notes : — 



Pine-Grosbeaks in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 292 



Two-barred Crossbills in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 292 



Incursion of Waxwings . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 



Siberian Chiff chaff in Kent (H. G. Alexander) . . . . 296 



Kite Nesting in Devonshire (Rev. J. R. Hale and Clifford 



Borrer) 298 



Kites in Somersetshire (A. F. R. Wollaston) ; in Derbyshire 



(Rev. F. C. R. .Tourdain) ; in Buckinghamshire (Hon. 



Walter Rothschild) 299 



Pintails in Berkshire (R. Bui'nier and P. A. Chubb) . . 300 



Red-breasted Mergansers in Surrey (Miss Flora Russell) . . 300 



Black-headed Gull feigning Lameness (H. B. Turney) . . 300 



Arctic Skua in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . 301 



" Hairy " Variety of the Moorhen (H. E. Forrest) . . . . 301 



Slender-billed Nutcracker in Surrey (T. A. Coward) . . 301 



Short Notes : — Northern Bullfinch in Orkney. Crossbill Nesting 

 in Suffolk in January. Richard's Pipit in Midlothian. 

 Supposed Yellow-browed Warbler in Kirkcudbright- 

 shire. Cuckoo's eggs in nests of House-Sparrow. 

 Sparrow-Hawk and Mistle-Thrush at Barra. Cor- 

 morant's mode of progression under water. Little 

 Bustard in Sussex. Rare migrants in Auskerry . . 301 



Letters : — Fleas and Beetles in old Nests of Birds (Norman H. 

 Joy). Baer's Pochard in Nottinghamshire (The 

 Duchess of Bedford) 304- 



