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With WHICH was Incorporated in January, igiy/'THE ZooCo^S't'.'^' " *'/^/ ,"" 



EDITED BY H. F. WITHEHBV, M.B.E.,F.Z.S..'M-.B.O.U. 



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Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and >Jvr>^)^n F. 



TiCEHURST, M.A., F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. ^ ^'0^31 Wl U^ 



Contents of Number 2, Vol. XIII. July i, 191 9. 



By Emma 



Further Notes on the Bittern in the Norfolk Broads. 

 L. Turner, f.l.s., h. m.b.o.u. 



rhe Pied and White Wagtails. By H. F. Witherby. (Plate 2) 



Note on the Drumming of Woodpeckers. By J. S. Huxley 



rhe Birds of Bardsey Island. Part i. By N. F. Ticehurst, 



M.B.O.U. 



rhe Late Dr. Wiglesworth. (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt, m.b.o.u.) . . 



STotes : — 

 Grey Wagtails Nesting at a Distance from Water (Rev. E. U. 



Savage) . . 

 Winter Immigration of Goldcrests and Firecrests in Kent 



(H. G. Alexander) 



Great Tit Laying in an Open Nest (F. W. Headley) . . 



Hoopoe in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 



Adult Cuckoo Killing Nestling Birds (F. W. Headley) 



Hobby in Bedfordshire (The Duchess of Bedford) 



Ospre}^ on the Norfolk Broads (Dr. S. H. Long) . . 



Night-Heron in Anglesey (T. A. Coward) 



Gannets in Derbyshire (Ernest Grindey) 



Fulmar Petrels in Yorkshire in Summer (George W. Temperley) 



Great Crested Grebes Nesting in Kent (D. H. Meares) 



Black-necked Grebe on Kent and Sussex Border (H. E. Castan) 



Red-Throated Divers in Derbyshire and Leicestershire (Rev. 



F. C. R. Jourdain and W. H. Barrow) 

 Dotterel in co. Dublin (Geo. R. Humphreys) 

 Greenshank in Warwickshire (Miss B. A. Carter) . . 

 Shifting of Breeding-grounds by Terns (H. E. Forrest) 

 Iceland Gulls in the Orkneys (Surgeon-Lieut. J. M. 



Harrison, r.n.) 

 Coloration of Soft Parts of some Birds (Miss Mar jo rj? Garnett) 



short Notes : — 

 Early Arrival of Garden-Warbler 

 Crested Grebes in Scotland . . 



and Wryneck. Great 



!^etters : — 

 The Late Frank Norgate (Rev. J. G. Tuck) 

 Incubation during the Laying Period (Collingwood Ingram) . . 

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