BRITBTIDIRDS 



With which was Incorporated in January, 191 7, "The Zooi,OGisTj^:;^^r\\m fnetf:.. 

 EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, M.B.E„F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., ^ „ . ^... 



ASSISTED I!V 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman ~4!^itiana,i jio.a®'^ 



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



Contents of Number id. Vol. XIV. March i, 1921. 



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A Third Season's Observations on a Cuckoo. By Edgar 



Chance, m.b.o.u. ... ... ... ... ... ... 218 



Notes : — 



Migration in January (H. G. Alexander) ... ... ... 233 



Tawny Owl Nesting in a Rookery (H. B. Cott) ... ... 234 



Spoonbill in Gloucester (F. H. L. Whish) ... ... ... 234 



Squacco Heron in Devon (T. P. Backhouse) ... ... 234 



Bittern in co. Antrim (W. H. Workman) ... ... ... 234 



Flamingos on Migration in the Mediterranean (Col. M. 



Henderson) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 234 



Velvet-Scoters, Long-tailed Duck and Greenshanks in Devon 



{W^ Walmesley W'hite) ... ... ... ... ... 235 



Period of Dives of Great Crested Grebe and Pochard ( W. P. G. 



Taylor) 235 



Late Stay of British Lesser Black-backed Gulls (H. W. 



Robinson) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 236 



Short Notes : — • 



Albino Yellow Wagtail in Cumberland. Grey Wagtail 

 Nesting Away from Water. Great Grey Shrike in 

 Somerset. Late Stay of Swallow and Swift in Yorkshire. 

 Greenland Falcon in Orkney. Spotted Eagle in Essex. 

 Steppe-Buzzard in Wiltshire — Erratum. Garganey in 

 Dumbarton. Fulmar I^etrel Breeding in Kincardineshire 

 and Berwickshire and Possibly in Banffshire. Land-Rail 

 in Cumberland in Winter ... ... ... ... ... 236 



Reviews : — 



The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs (F. C.R.J.) ... 238 



Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1919 including Migration 240 



Letter : — • 



Kestrel taking a Dust-Bath (W. Ruttledge) ... ... 240 



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