BRIHSHDII^S 



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



EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBV,M.B.E.,F.Z.S., M.RO.U 



assisted by 



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



ticehurst, o.b.e., m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 3, Vol. XV., August i, 1921. 



Notes on the Little Tern and Young. By J. N. Douglas Smith 50 



Notes : — 



Some Birds Rarely Breeding in Lincolnshire (W. S. Medlicott) 57 

 House-Sparrows Nesting in Hole of Lesser Spotted Wood- 

 pecker (Capt. W. M. Congreve) . . . . . . . . 58 



Wood-Lark Breeding in Montgomeryshire (Capt. W. M. 



Congreve) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 



Late Spring Migratory Movement of Common Whitethroats 



(Rev. E. U. Savage) 58 



Great Grey Shrike in Staffordshire (Dr. R. Clayton) . . . . 59 



Spotted Flycatcher returning to Deserted Nest (Dr. R. 



Clayton) . . 

 Wing-strokes of the Swift (W. Cave) 

 Roller in Essex (W B. Nichols) 

 Unusual Site for Kingfisher's Nest (J. H. Owen) 

 On some Breeding-habits of Woodpeckers (J. H. Owen) 

 Breeding of the Great Spotted Woodpecker in Cumberla]|fd 



(R. H. Brown) 



Little Owl in Lancashire (F. W. Holder) 



Clutch of Four Eggs of the Hobby (Norman Gilroy) . . 



Merlin Breeding in Somerset (C. J. Pring) 



Kestrels Nesting on the Ground (William E. Glegg) 



Buzzards taking Food from Surface of Water (W. Cave) 



Fulmar Petrel in Summer in Yorkshire and at the Fame Isles 



(Hugh S. Gladstone, W. J. Clarke and Miss M. G. S. Best) 65 

 A Sixteenth Century Portrait of the Pheasant (Hugh S. 



Gladstone) . . . . . , . . . . . , . . 67 



Short Notes : — 



Starling with Young in January in Yorkshire. Rose-coloured 

 Starlings in Yorkshire. Short-eared Owl Breeding in 

 Essex. Greenland Falcon in Pembrokeshire. Iceland 

 Falcon in co. Kerry. The St. Columb Spotted Eagle. 

 Sheld-Duck Nesting in Nottinghamshire. Nesting Status 

 of the Black-headed Gull in Yorkshire. . . . . . . 69 



Letters : — ■ 



Parasitism of Gulls on Ducks (Theed Pearse) . . . . . . 70 



Status of the Arctic Tern in South Lancashire and the Fames 



(F. W. Holder and Mary G. S. Best) 71 



Obituary : The Late Col. H. W. Feilden, c.b. (Dr. S. H. Long) 71 



