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



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SEP 1 4 1920 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman ^"K^tjo 



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



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Contents of Number 4, Vot.. XIV. September i, 1920. 



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Notes on the Breeding -Habit? of the Little Tern. By Thomas 



Lewis, F.R.s. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 74 



On Certain Other Species of Birds and their Former Status in 



Kent. By N. F. Ticehurst, m.a., f.r.c.s. .. .. .. 83 



The Law of Territory. By J. M. Dewar, m.d. .. .. 89 



Notes : — 



Cirl Bunting in Argyllshire (W. Stewart) 



Wood-Lark Breeding in Somerset (Stanley Lewis) . 



Unusual Boldness of Robin in Defence of Young 

 Witherbv) 



(H. F 



Hoopoes in Staffordshire (W. Davies) . . 



Wryneck in North Devon (J. G. Hamling) .. 



Susceptibility of Kestrel's Plumage to Wet (Lt.-Col. H. A. F 

 Magrath) 



A New Nesting-Place of the Gannet (E. G. B. Meade-Waldo) 



Nesting of Great Crested Grebe in Kent (H. G. Alexander 



and E. G. B. Meade- Waldo) 



Turtle-Dove in Shetland (E. G. B. Meade-Waldo) .. 



Large Numbers of Common Sandpipers on the Coasts of 

 Alderney and Dorset in Summer (Major W. R. Thompson) 



Black-headed Gulls Return to their Old Nesting- Site in 

 Delamere Forest, Cheshire (F. A. Bruton) 



Short Notes : — 



Bee-Eaters in Scotland. 

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Cuckoo's Egg in Tree-Sparrow's 



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