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With which was Incorporated in January, igiy/'THE Zoologist 



EDITED HY H. F. WITHEHBV, M.B.E.,F.Z.S., M-B.^^tj^^^^^^ ^^ 



ASSISTED KV 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., 



TiCEHURST, O.B.E., M.A. 



isi.B.o.u., AND Norman F. 



F.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 7, Vol. XIV. December i, 1920. 



L. Cochrane, 



Short Notes : — 



The Altitude of Migratory Flight. — Carrion-Crow Nesting off co. 

 Dublin. — Northern Bullfinch in E. Lothian. — Ring-Ouzel 

 in O. Hebrides. — Dipper in Lincolnshire. — Rough-legged 

 Buzzards in Sussex. — Shovelers Breeding in the Lothians. — 

 Yellowshank in Scilly Isles. — Black Terns near Glasgow. — 

 Little Gull off CO. Galway 



Letters : — 



Breeding of the Wood-I-ark in Somerset (Rev. F. L. Blath- 



wayt) 

 The Sparrow-Hawk of the Old Writers (J. H. Gurney) 

 Key's Work on the Cuckoo (Edgar Chance) 



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Some Notes on the Ruff . By E. L. Turner, h.m.b.o.u. .. .. 146 



Notes on the Nestling-Downs of the British Hawks. By H. F. 

 Witherby 



An Early Record of the Great Bustard in Kent. By N. F. 

 Ticehurst, M.A., F.R.c.s. 



The Food of the Peregrine Falcon. By J. F. Peters 



Notes : — 



Brooding Prior to Laying (J. H. Owen) 



Note on Breeding-habits of Lesser Redpoll in S. Glamorgan- 

 shire (G. C. S. Ingram and H. M. Salmon) 



Late Nesting of Bullfinch (A. Mayall) . . 



Cirl Bunting Breeding in N.E. Bucks. (Capt. H. 

 R.N.) 



Nesting-Sites of the Hobby (Rev. J. R. Hale) 



Hen-Harrier in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 



Honey-Buzzard in co. Antrim (H. T. Malcomson) 



Osprey on the Cheshire Border (H. E. Forrest) 



Glossy Ibises in Norfolk (J. H. Gurney) 



Red-crested Pochard and Gadwall in Devon (T. P. Backhouse) 



Movements of Divers on the Merioneth Coast (Marjory Garnett) 



Late Nesting of Wood-Pigeon (Clifford Borrer) 



Late Autumn Waders in Norfolk (Clifford Borrer) 



Black-winged Stilt in Wigtownshire (M. Portal) 



Black Tern in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) 



Black-headed Gulls in Delamere Forest, Cheshire (A. W. Boyd) 



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