BRITOlDir^DS 



With WHICH WAS Incorporated in January, 191 7, "The Zoologist." 

 EDITED BY H. F. WITHERB V, M.B.E., 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. XIII. January i, 1920. 



The Oystercatcher's Progress towards Maturity. 

 Dewar, m.d. 



By J. M. 



The Birds of 

 m.b.o.u., etc. 



Bardsey 

 Part 6 



Island. By N. F. Ticehurst, m.a. 



Notes : — 



Notes from Cornwall (A. W. Boyd) 



Notes from Leicestershire (W. H. Barrow) 



Late Nesting of Linnets (A. S. Corbet, S. B. Hodgson) 



Red-breasted Flycatcher in Norfolk (Dr. B. B. Riviere) 



Continental Hedge-Sparrow in Norfolk (Dr. B. B. Riviere) 



Numbers in Swallow and Martin Broods in 1919 in Warwick 

 shire (H. J. Vaughan) . . . . . . 



Little Owls in Cornwall (P. D. Williams) 



White-tailed Eagles in Somerset (S. Lewis) 



A Wood-Pigeon's Ruse (H. J. Vaughan) 



Little Stint in Surrey (H. Bentham) 



Shelled Egg in Partridge of the Year (A. Silver 



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The Nesting Habits of the Merlin in south Glamorganshire. 



By G. C. S. Ingram . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 



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214 



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Short Notes : — 



Large numbers of Bramblings in Worcestershire. Early 

 Arrival of Redwings and Fieldfares. Black-tailed Godwits 

 in CO. Mayo. The British and Scandinavian Lesser Black- 

 backed Gulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 



Reviews : — 



A Naturalist's Sketch Book. A Geographical Bibliography of 

 British Ornithology from the earliest times to the end of 1918. 

 De Vogels van Nederland. Die Vogel der palaarktischen 

 Fauna. A Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales 222 



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