BRfnsriDiRDs 



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 10, Vol. III. March 1, 1910. 



Two Races peculiar to the British Isles, by Ernst Hartert, 



ph.d., m.b.o.u. . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 313 



On the Nesting of the Hobby in Hampshire, by Commander 



H. Lynes, r.n., m.b.o.u. .. .. .. .. .. 317 



Sequence of Plumages in British Birds. III. — The Black- 

 throated Thrush, Blackbird and Ring-Ouzel, by C. B. 

 Ticehurst, m.a., B.C., m.r.c.s., m.b.o.u... .. .. 321 



Notes : — The Wood-Pigeon " Diphtheria " (Eds.). Strictest 

 Priority in Nomenclature (Dr. Ernst Hartert). Rare 

 Birds in Ireland (W. J. Williams). Actions of the 

 Alpine Accentor (F. Russell). Breeding-Habits of the 

 Siskin in Ireland (R. Hamilton Hunter). Irruption 

 of Crossbills). Ceremonial Gatherings of the Magpie 

 (Fredk. J. Stubbs). Nesting of the Little Owl in 

 Hampshire (Commander H. Lynes, r.n.). Hen- 

 Harrier in the Isle of Man (Frank S. Graves). Bittern 

 in Kent (J. H. Allchin). Glossy Ibis in Norfolk (J. H. 

 Gurney). Goosanders in Surrey (Howard Bentham). 

 Line of Migration of the Spotted Crake (H. W. 

 Robinson). Pectoral Sandpipers in Sussex (J. B. 

 Nichols). Black-tailed Godwits in co. Cork (Captain 

 J. W. H. Seppings). Short Notes 327 



Review : — Der Zug des Steppenhuhnes, Syrrhaples para- 

 doxus (Pall.), nach dem Westen, 1908 344 



Letter : — " The Natural History of British Game Birds ". . 347 



TWO RACES PECULIAR TO THE BRITISH ISLES. 



BY 

 ERNST HARTERT, ph.d., m.b.o.u. 



I. Accentor modular is occidentalis, subsp. no v.* 

 The British Hedge-Sparrow. 



A comparison of twenty English specimens of the 

 Hedge-Sparrow with thirty from the Continent of 



* Prazak, " Ornith. Monatsschrift," 1896, p. 189, proposes a name 

 for a supposed British race of the Hedge-Sparrow, making the following 



