NUDSTIBIRDS 
With which is Incorporated 
“THE ZOOLOGIST.” 
EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
ASSISTED BY 
Rev. F. C. R. JouRDAIN, M.A., M.B.0.U., AND Nor Ho Auian lash 
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CONTENTS .OF NuM3ER 3, Vout. XI. Auveust, 19 
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Field-Notes on the Nesting of the Hobby. By the late 
Captain C. 8S. Meares. Abstracted and as for 
publication by Lieut. D. H. Meares 50 
The Moults and Sequence of Plumages of the British Waders. 
iby Miss Annie C. Jackson, Hon. Mem.~ B.0.U. 
1. Introductory .. Me Sc ae a. ove ae 55 
Notes :— 
Hawfinch in Anglesey (S. G. Cummings) .. ae st 65 
Curious site for Nest of Chaffinch (J. H. Owen) .. ae 65 
White Wagtail nesting in Westmorland (H. W. Robinson) .. €5 
Marsh-Warbler Breeding in Huntingdonshire (George T. 
Atchison) ig hs : os, ag aie a 66 
Increase of Whinchat in Gamdarland (H. W. Robinson) .. 66 
On a Migration of Swallows in Norfolk (Dr. B. B. Riviere) .. 66 
Swallow Nesting in a Dug-out in France (H. M. Wallis) .. 67 
Large percentage of full broods of Swallows in Lancashire 
and Westmorland (H. W. Robinson) ae a ie 67 
Mortality amongst Great Crested Grebes (Herbert T. 
Malcolmson) .. ae ae ae as 67 
Bonaparte’s Sandpiper in ae (J. B. Nichols) re 4c 68 
Albinistic Black-headed Gull and desertion of a Cheshire 
nesting-site (F. A. Bruton) .. 68 
Arctic Skua in Somerset in June (Dr. J. Wiglesworth) ore 68 
Short Notes :—Effects of the severe winter on Birds. Albin’s 
“ Black Lark.’? Western Black-eared Wheatear off 
co. Wexford. Night-Heron in co. Dublin. Great 
Skua in Suffolk. Habits of the Coot .. a “ 69 
Review :—A Bibliography of British Ornithology from the 
earliest times to the end of 1912, Parts V.and VI. .. 71 
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