BR1TISHDIRDS 



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



ASSISTED BY 



Rev.F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.tt.,W. P. Pycraft, a.l.s., 

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



Contents of Number 7, Vol. III. December 1, 1009. 

 Sequences of Plumages in British Birds. I. — Introductory, 



■ by H. F. Witherby 209 



The Wood-Pigeon "Diphtheria," by C. B. Ticehurst, m.a., 



B.C., M.R.C.S., M.B.O.XJ. . . . . . . • • • • 213 



Manx Ornithological Notes, 1905-1908, by P. G. Ralfe . . 215 



Notes: — Recovery of Marked Birds (H. F. W. and A. 

 Landsborough Thomson). Migration in the Mediter- 

 ranean (C. B. Ticehurst.) The Meaning of Birds' 

 • Songs (F. W. Headley and Collingwood Ingram). 

 Number of Eggs laid by Terns (C. B. Ticehurst, 

 Norman Gilroy, Percy F. Bunyard and N. F. Tice- 

 hurst). Yellow - Browed Warbler in Lincolnshire 

 (G. H. Caton Haigh). Extraordinary Boldness of a 

 Grasshopper-Warbler (Miss E. L. Turner). Blue-headed 

 Wagtail in Essex (J. Beddall Smith. Red-breasted 

 Flycatcher in Lincolnshire (G. H. Caton Haigh). 

 Lesser Redpoll in Essex (D. H. Meares). The Irruption 

 of Crossbills, Plate XIII. Crossbills in the Faeroes 

 C. B. Ticehurst). Rooks and Jackdaws — A Query 

 (F. B. Kirkman). American Bittern in Sussex 

 . (Herbert Langton). Glossy Ibises in Yorkshire, 

 Nottinghamshire and Devonshire (Ernest Kempsey, 

 T. H. Nelson, E. Hall and J. Whitaker). Pintail and 

 Scaup-Ducks in Surrey (Howard Bentham). Wood- 

 Sandpiper in Sussex (E. C. Arnold). Black Terns in 

 North Wales (C. B. Ticehurst and C. Kingsley Siddall). 

 Puffins in Surrey (Miss C. M. Acland). Manx Shear- 

 water in Berkshire (Heatley Noble). Short Notes . . 219- 



SEQUENCE OF PLUMAGES IN BRITISH BIRDS. 



I. — INTRODUCTORY. 



BY 

 H. F. WITHERBY. 



An Editorial promise was given in the first number of 

 the present volume to make a beginning, at all events, 

 in describing the Sequence of Plumages which takes place 



