BRITmDIPDS 



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

 EDITED BY H. F. WITHEKBY, M.B.E.,F.Z.S., M.B>0^^ 



ASSISTED EV 



^ JUL 14 1920 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and NoR^l^N F. 



TiCEHURST, O.B.E., M.A., F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 2, Vol. XIV. 



July i, 1920. 



Notes on Somersetshire Ravens. By Stanley Lewis . . 



On the Former Abundance of the Kite, Buzzard, and Raven 

 in Kent. By N. F. Ticehurst, m.a., f.r.c.s. 



Notes : — 



Raven Nesting in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 

 Siskins in Devonshire (J. G. Hamhng) 

 Nuptial Display of Corn-Bunting (W. B. Nichols) . . 

 Cirl Bunting Nesting in Leicestershire (H. S. Davenport) 

 Blue-headed Wagtail in N. Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) 

 Early Nesting of Grey Wagtail (Howard Bentham) 

 Wall-Creeper in Dorset (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt) 

 Long-tailed Titmouse Breeding at Unusual Height (H. M. 



Wallis and Nevin H. Foster) 

 Lesser Whitethroat Nesting in Cornwall (A. W. H. Harvey) 

 On the Incubation Period, etc., of the Sardinian Warbler 



(Surg.-Capt. J. H. Stenhouse, R.N.) 



Blackbird's Peculiar Nesting-site (Ian Meikle) 



Swallow Ringed in Stirlingshire Found in the Transvaal 



(H. F. Witherby) 



W'ryneck in Westmorland (Rev. E. U. Savage) 

 Incubation of Storm-Petrel (H. W. Robinson) 

 Nesting of Great Crested Grebe in Kent (Rev. j. R. Hale) . . 

 Dotterel in Carnarvonshire (H. E. Forrest) 



Short Notes : — 



Golden Oriole in Gloucestershire. Crested Tit Reported 

 Breeding in S.W. Inverness-shire. Great Grey Shrike in 

 Surrey. Great Reed-Warbler in co. Cork. Little Owls 

 in N. Lincolnshire. Breeding-habits of Slavonian Grebe. 

 Common Snipe's and Lapwing's Nests with Five Eggs. 

 Common Crane in Kirkcudbright. Carolina Crake in co. 

 Galway . . 



Review : — 



The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs. (F. C.R.J.) 



Letter : — 



Probable Little Bustard in Northumberland (Seton Gordon) 



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