DRITISMDIRDS 



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. 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 8, Vol. III. January 1, 1910. 



Ravens at the Nest, with some Notes on the Hooded Crow, 



by Francis Heatherley, f.r.c.s. . . . . . . . . Page 234 



Sequence of Plumages in British Birds. II. — The Mistle- 

 Thrush, Song-Thrush, Redwing and Fieldfare, by C. B. 

 Ticehurst, m.a., b.c, m.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. . . . . . . 243 



Notes :— Recovery of Marked Birds (H. F. W.). The Effect 

 of Food-supply upon Fecundity (J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 and Percy F. Bunyard). Migration across the Mediter- 

 ranean (F. W. Headley). Rare Birds in Sussex (J. B. 

 Nichols and C. B. Ticehurst). Rare Birds in Ireland 

 (W. J. Williams). The Irruption of Crossbills. Dimor- 

 phism in the Crossbill (C. B. Ticehurst). Snow-Bunting 

 in Dorset (M. William Portman). Rose-coloured 

 Starling in Northamptonshire (W. C. Cattell). Short- 

 toed Lark in Sussex (Herbert Langton). Swifts eating 

 Drones of the Hive Bee (Erick Lacey). Rapid re- 

 mating of the Peregrine Falcon (Gwynne Witherington). 

 Pintail in Sussex in August (N. F. Ticehurst). Long- 

 tailed Duck in Merioneth (H. E. Forrest). Velvet- 

 Scoters on the North Coast of Wales (R. W. Jones). 

 Female Black Grouse assuming Male Plumage (J. G. 

 Millais). Spotted Crake in Northamptonshire (W. C. 

 Cattell). Black-winged Pratincole in Yorkshire (H. F. 

 Witherby). Black Tern in Hampshire (H. Lynes). 

 Coloration of the soft parts of the Slavonian Grebe 

 (The Duchess of Bedford) 251 



Review : — Report on the Immigrations of Summer Residents 



in the Spring of 1908 270 



Short Reviews 271 



The death of Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, which took 

 place at his residence in Barrowgate Road, Chiswick, on 

 Christmas Day, after a brief illness, will be deeply 

 deplored by all ornithologists, not only in this country 

 but in every country where our science is studied — for 

 his fame as an ornithologist was world-wide. Those of 

 us who knew Dr. Sharpe personally will keenly feel the 

 loss of one so genial and so kind. In the next issue we 

 hope to publish a memoir and a portrait. 



