BRinsriDIRDS 



With WHICH was Incorporated in January, 1917, " The Zoologist." 



EDITED BY H. F. WITHEKBY,M.B.E.,F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



assisted by 



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



Norman F. Ticehurst, o.b.e., m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number ii, Vol. XV., April i, 1922. 



Observations on the Breeding-Habits of the Merlin. — IV. The 



Young. By W. Rowan, M.Sc, M.B.O.U., F.Z.S 246 



History of the Cxreat Crested Grebe in Dumbartonshire. By 



Alexander Cuthbertson .. .. .. .. .. .. 254 



Some Breeding-Habits of the Sparrow-Hawk. (9) Chiefly 

 Further Notes on the Effects of Sun. — Part IV. By J. H. 

 Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 



Notes on the Breeding-Habits of the Wood-Lark in Dorset. By 



W. J. Ashford 1 264 



Notes : — 



Reed-Buntings Flocking in Spring (Chas. E. I'earson) 



Bearded-Tit in Hampshire (M. Portal) 



Waxwings in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 



Ring-Ouzel in Westmorland in Winter (Lenore F. Marshall) 



Early Arrival of a Swallow (Norman Gilroy) 



Peregrine Falcons in London (Lewis R. W. Loyd) 



Spoonbill in Lancashire and Cheshire (T. A. Coward) 



" Saw-billed Ducks " wintering in Cheshire (T. A. Coward) 



Red-necked Grebe in Oxfordshire (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) . . 



Red-necked and Slavonian Grebes in Derbyshire (Rev. F. C. R. 



Jourdain) 

 Slavonian Grebe in Cheshire (H. E. Forrest) 

 Black-necked Grebes in co. Dublin (E. G. Hope- Johnstone) . . 

 Inland Occurrences of Waders in the .\utumn of 1921 

 Avocets washed up in Lancashire (F. K. Boston) .. 



Short Notes : — 



Golden Oriole in Wigtownshire. Reported Pied Flycatcher 

 in CO. Mayo. Great Spotted Woodpeckers Ngstiog in 

 Argyllshire and Perthshire. Green Sandpiper /in 'Sussex 

 in Winter. The Indigenous Scottish Capercaiilie^ « r.;^ 



Review : — 



A Synopsis of the Accipitres [Diurnal Birds of Prev), Second 

 Edition. Parts I. and II. By H. Kirke Swann (H. F, 



Letter : — 



The Share of the Male Merlin in Feeding the Young 



(E. Richmond Paton) .. .. .. .. .. .. 276 



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