BRFODIRDS 



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

 EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, M.B.E.,F.Z.S., M-BrtTTT 



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Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., a^ Norman, 

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Contents of Number 2, Vol. XV., July i, i 



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A Ringed Plover's " Nests." By T. Leslie Smith . . . . 26 



Diving Ducks : Some Notes on their Habits and Courtship. By 



Charles E. Alford, f.z.s. . . . . . . . . . . 33 



Manx Ornithological Notes, 1920. By P. G. Ralfe .. .. 39 



Notes : — 



Remarkable Varieties of Magpie (H. E. Forrest) .. .. 41 



Large Clutch of Linnet's Eggs (Major Cecil Smeed) .. .. 41 



Shore-Lark on Worcestershire-Herefordshire Border (Martin 



S. Curtler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 



Late Spring Movement of Pied Wagtails (W. H. Thorpe) . . 42 



Spotted Flycatcher Returning to Deserted Nest (H. W. 



Mapleton-Bree) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 42 



Pied Flycatcher Nesting in Worcestershire (J. S. Elliott) . . 43 



Martins Repairing Damaged Nest with Eggs (Lewis R. W. 



Loyd) 43 



House - Sparrows attacking Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers 



(Rev. B. D'O. Aphn) 44 



Habits of the Cuckoo (E. G. B. Meade-Waldo) . . . . 44 



Little Owl in Lancashire (Thos. L. S. Dooly) . . . . . . 45 



Merlin Breeding in Devonshire (W. Walmesley White) . . 45 



Dive of the Goosander (H. W. Robinson) .. .. .. 45 



Early Breeding of Woodcock (Hugh S. Gladstone) . . . . 46 



Roseate Terns Breeding in Dorset (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt) . . 46 



Letters : — 



Long-tailed Tit's Method of Building (L. E. Taylor) . . . . 47 



Status of Arctic Tern in Lancashire and the Fames (H. B. 



Booth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 



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