BRITE)nDIW)S 



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

 EDITED BY H. F. WITHEllBY, M.H.E.,F.Z.S.. M.B.O.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 4, Vol. XV., September i, 192 i. 



PAGE 



Some Breeding-Habits of the Sparrow-Hawk. (8) Laying 



and Incubation. — -Part III. By J. H. Owen .. .. 74 



Field-Notes on the Blackcap. By Geoffrey C. S. Ingram . . 78 



\'arieties of the Common Gannet. By Henry Balfour, m.a., 



F.Z.S., F.R.G.S. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 82 



Notes : — 



Notes on Breeding- Habits of Grey Wagtail (Mrs. H. 



Rait Kerr) 85 



Grasshopper- Warbler Nesting in Lincolnshire (Rev. F. L. 



Blathwayt) 85 



Food of the Robin (Stanley Lewis) . . . . . . . . 86 



Abnormal Laying by the Swallow (R. H. Brown) . . . . 86 



Wing-strokes of the Swift (Capt. H. F. Stoneham) . . . . 86 



Breeding of the Great Spotted Woodpecker in Cumberland 



(F. H. Day and Rev. F. L. Blathwayt) 87 



Honey-Buzzard in Hampshire (A. W. Boyd) . . . . 87 



Heron Soaring and " Looping the Loop " (W. B. Nichols) . . 88 



Bittern in Anglesey (A. W. Boyd) . . . . . . . . 88 



Notes on the Bean-Goose in Ayrshire (E. Richmond Paton) 88 



Goosanders, Black-necked Grebe and Sheld-Ducks in Surrey 



(Howard Bentham) . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 



Movements of Great Crested Grebes in Middlesex (W. E. 



Glegg) 90 



A Note on the Nesting of the Red-necked Phalarope (Mrs. 



Audrey Gordon) . . . . . . . . . . , . 90 



Short Note : — 



Albino Starling in Merionethshire. " Buzzards taking Food 



from Surface of Water." — A correction. .. .. .. 92 



Letters : — 



Status of Arctic Terns in Lancashire and the Fames (H. W. 



Robinson and F C. R. Jourdain) .. .. .. 92 



Review : — 



Life of Alfred Newton. (Hugh S. Gladstone) .. .. 93 



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