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



ASSISTED BY 



Rev.F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., W. P. Py craft, a.l.s., 

 m.b.o.u., and Norman F. Ticehtjrst, m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 2, Vol. III. July 1, 1909. 



The Chicks of the Sanderling, by William Eagle Clarke 

 f.r.s.e. (Plate II.) 



Observations on the Migration of Birds in the Mediter 

 ranean, by Commander H. Lynes, r.n., m.b.o.u. 



The Peregrine Falcon on the Yorkshire Cliffs, by A. D 

 Sapsworth, m.b.o.u. 



Notes: — Marking Birds (Eds.). Redstart in Sussex 

 (E. F. B. Monck). Lesser Redpoll in Sussex (H. G 

 Alexander). Ravens as Scavengers (Col. H. W. Feilden) 

 Little Bittern in Orkney (W. Cowan). Shoveler Nesting 

 in Staffordshire (W. Wells Bladen). Turtle-Dove in 

 Scotland (W. A. Nicholson). Late Nesting of Wood- 

 cook (Richard H. W. Leach). Snipe Perching (Gwynne 

 Witherington). Black-Tailed Godwit in North Wales 

 (H. E. Forrest). Large Clutches of Eggs of the Great 

 Crested Grebe (L. W. Crouch and Miss E. L. Turner). . 



Review : — The British Warblers — A History, with Problems 

 of their Lives. Part III. 



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THE CHICKS OF THE SANDERLING. 



WILLIAM EAGLE CLARKE. 



(Plate II.) 



The chicks of the Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), which 

 form the subject of this contribution, are of historical 

 interest, inasmuch as they are the first that have been 

 made known to science. They were, however, exhibited 

 by me at the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club 

 on the 20th of May, 1908, but have hitherto remained 

 undescribed. 



The Sanderling was said by Captain Edward Sabine, 

 who accompanied Parry on his remarkable voyage in 



