BR1E5I1DIRD5 



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



ASSISTED BY 



Kev.F. C. E. Jottrdain, m.a., m.b.o.tt., W. P. Pycrapt, a.l.s., 

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



Contents of Number 12, Vol. III. May 2, 1910. 



On a White-breasted Variety of the Common Cormorant, 



by F. W. Frohawk, m.b.o.u., f.e.s. . . . . . . Page 385 



Sequence of Plumages in British Birds. V. — The Common 

 Wheatear, Whinchat and Common Redstart, by C. B. 

 Ticehurst, m.a., B.C., m.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. . . . . . . 391 



Notes : — Recovery of Marked Birds. Recovery of a Marked 

 Swallow (Claud B. Ticehurst). Crossbills Nesting in 

 England — In Hampshire (Capt. Goland v. Clarke, Com- 

 mander Dayrell Davies, r.n., and H. F. Witherby) ; 

 In Kent (J. Beddall Smith) ; In Staffordshire (F. A. 

 Monckton) ; In Suffolk (Percy F. Bunyard) ; Probable, 

 in Suffolk (J. M. Wilkinson) ; In Surrey (Commander 

 H. Lynes, r.n., and H. R. Tutt) ; Probable, in Surrey 

 (Harold Russell) ; In Sussex (John Walpole-Bond). 

 Irruption of Crossbills. Birds Feeding on Fir-cones 

 (Claud B. Ticehurst and H. F. Witherby). Two-barred 

 Crossbill in Scotland (Hugh S. Gladstone). Black- 

 headed Bunting in Sussex (J. B. Nichols). Ravens in 

 Shropshire (H. E. Forrest). The White Markings on 

 the Head of the Young Cuckoo (Miss Frances Pitt). 

 Garganey and other Ducks in Cheshire (T. A. Coward). 

 Common Scoter and other Ducks in Hertfordshire and 

 Buckinghamshire (Chas. Oldham). Common Scoters 

 in Cheshire (M. V. Wenner). Ringed Plover nesting 

 in Surrey (Howard Bentham). Fulmar in Shropshire 

 and other Counties (H. E. Forrest). Short Notes . . 399 



Review : — " A History of Buds " .. .. .. .. 418 



ON A WHITE-BREASTED VARIETY OF THE 

 COMMON CORMORANT. 



BY 

 F. W. FROHAWK, m.b.o.u., f.e.s. 



At the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club held 

 on March 16th, 1910, I exhibited a skin of a female 

 Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with a white breast, 

 which I shot on June 30th, 1909, off the Scilly Isles. 

 I figured and described it in the " Field " of November 



