
DNIDSABIRDS 
With which is Incorporated 
“THE ZOOLOGIST.”’ \ 
EDITED BY REV. F. C. R. JOURDAIN, Moda MRE, 
ASSISTED BY 
Norman F. TICEHURST, M.A., F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



ContTENTS oF NumBER 10, Vou. XI. Marcu 1, 1918. 

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Notes on the Kingfisher (Alcedo Mees oa By W. 
Rowan, B.Se. ? ore 218 
A Note on the Nesting of the a citaa. By Je H. Gee en. x 226 
The Moults and Sequence of Plumages of the British Waders. 
By Miss Annie C. Jackson, Hon. Mem. B.O.U. Part V. .. 228 
Notes :— 
Rock-Pipit in Cambridgeshire (H. G. Alexander) ae we 231 
Absence of Fieldfares in Winter 1917-1918 sot Ee iCak 
Jourdain) is : : oe ae 231 
Common Buzzard in Mehta (EK. Grindey) 5 ee 232 
Spoonbills in Devonshire (Paul L. Parker). . ae AE 232 
Whoopers in Warwickshire (E. de Hamel) .. vs ate 232 
Bewick’s Swan in Warwickshire (Miss B. A. Carter) 2 233 
Brent Geese in North Staffordshire (T. Smith) Ls ts 233 
Eider Duck on River Roding in Essex (Colin Murray) as 233 
Gannet in Radnorshire (Owen R. Owen) .. nts a 234 
Red-necked Grebe in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) ee ac 234 
Red-throated Diver Inland in Lincolnshire (John Allison).. 234 
Late Stay of Common Sandpiper in Staffordshire (T. Smith) 235 
Grey Phalarope in Hampshire (Rev. J. E. Kelsall) .. ae 235 
Black-tailed Godwits in Kent (Sapper J. Vincent) .. ve 235 
A Note on the British Puffin (Dr. Ernst Hartert) ie Rc 235 
Short Notes :—Third Oological Dinner. Continental Coal- 
Tits in Dorset. British Willow-Tits in Dorset. 
Wood-Wren in Co. Fermanagh. Hen-Harriers in 
North Derbyshire. Breeding-Habits of Baird’s Sand- 
piper. Green Sandpiper in King’s County. Black 
Tern and Arctic Skua in Co. Mayo. a ae Le 237 
Obituary :—Captain Leonard Gray (M.C.) a0 te 239 
Letter :—The Breeding-Habits of the Hobby (J. Beddall Smith) 239 
Review :—Transactions of the London Natural Histor, y Society 
for the Year 1916. as ei : re 240 
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