BRITBTIDIPDS 



With WHICH was Incorporated in January, i9I7/'The Zoologist." 



EDITED HY H. P^ WITHERBY,M.B.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 5, Vol. XV., October i, 192 i. 



PAGE 



Notes on the Great Auk. By W. H. Mullens, m.a., ll.m. . . gS 



A Note on the Red-backed Shrike. By J. H. Owen .. .. 109 



Recovery of Marked Birds .. .. .. .. .. iii 



Notes : — 



Open Nests of Jackdaws in Trees (Dr. R. C. C. Clay) . . . . 114 



Notes on Some Breeding-Habits of the Wheatear (J. F. 



Thomas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Breeding in August (Rev. B. D'O. 



Aphn) 115 



Cuckoo Laying in Blackbird's Nest (H. W. Mapleton-Bree) .. 116 



Short-eared Owl Breeding in Sussex (R. Ware) .. .. 116 



Peregrine Falcon Breeding Inland in Somerset (Stanley 



Lewis) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. T16 



Tufted Duck Breeding in Berkshire (Dr. Norman H. Joy) .. 117 



Incubation- Period of Common Sandpiper (E. Richmond Paton) 1 1 7 



Wood-Sandpiper and Ruff in Cheshire in June (R. M. Garnett) 1 17 



Short Notes : — 



Hawfinch's Nest in Aberdeenshire. Blue-headed Wagtail 

 in Ayrshire. Reported Nesting of White Wagtail in 

 Kincardineshire. Tree-Creepers on the Isle of May. 

 Marsh-Tit in Berwickshire. Crested Tit in Forfarshire. 

 Buff-coloured Blackbird in Somerset. Nightingale Nesting 

 in Somerset. Lapland Bluethroat at Fair Isle. Spread of 

 Little Owl to the Sussex Coast. Glossy Ibises in Shetland 

 and Aberdeenshire. Common Scoter Breeding in Perth- 

 shire. Fulmar Petrel Breeding in Aberdeenshire and 

 Forfarshire .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 118 



Review • — 



Our Resident Birds and How to Know Them .. . . 1 20 



