BRITBHCIRDS 



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

 ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT. A.L.S., M.B.O.U. 



Contents of Number 10, Vol. II. March 1, 1009. 



The Colony of Little Terns at Spurn Point, Yorkshire, 



by Oxley Grabham, m.a., m.b.o.u. (Plate VII.) . . Page 317 



On a Plan of Mapping Migratory Birds in their Nesting 



Areas, by C. J. and H. G. Alexander 322 



On the More Important Additions to our Knowledge of 

 British Birds since 1899, by H. F. Witherby and N. F. 

 Ticehurst. Part XVIII. — [continued from page 308) . . 327 



On the Eggs of the Tree-Pipit, by Percy F. Bunyard, f.z.s., 



M.B.O.U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 



Notes : — The Bibliography of British Birds. Comparative 

 Legislation for the Protection of Birds. The British 

 Song-Thrush and Dartford Warbler (Eds.). Northern 

 Willow-Wren in Norfolk (Clifford Borrer and H. F. 

 Witherby). Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Breeding in 

 Merioneth (H. E. Forrest). Hoopoe in Merioneth (H. E. 

 Forrest). Little Owl in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 

 (F. Coburn) The Food of the Common Eider. (H. W. 

 Robinson). Velvet- Scoter in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest). 

 Increase of Wood-Pigeons in Orkney (Rev. James R. 

 Hale). Red Variety (P. montana) of the Common 

 Partridge (H, E. Forrest). Short Notes . . . . 340 



THE COLONY OF LITTLE TERNS AT SPURN 

 POINT, YORKSHIRE. 



BY 



OXLEY GRABHAM, m.a., m.b.o.u. 



(Plate VIL) 



I DO not propose to enter here into the pecuHarities of 

 the Little Tern {Sterna minuta) in general, but merely to 

 give a few facts relative to the last Yorkshire breeding 

 colony, which at present is, I am glad to say, in a 

 flourishing condition. Spurn Point, at the mouth of the 



