428 



BRITISH BIRDS. 



Said, 37, 69 ; Spring Migra- 

 tion at Crete, 99 ; Migration at 

 Sea, 133 ; On the Nesting of 

 the Hobby in Hampshire, 317 ; 

 Notes on Black Tern in Hamp- 

 shire, 268 ; Little Owl Nesting 

 in Hampshire, 336 ; Nesting 

 of Crossbill in Surrey, 404. 



macrura, Sterna. See Tern, Arctic. 



macularius, Totanus. See Sand- 

 piper, Spotted. 



maculata, Tringa^ See Sandpiper, 

 Pectoral. 



Magpie, Ceremonial Gatherings of 

 the, 334. 



Magrath, Major H. A. F., Note 

 on Woodchat Shrike devouring 

 Swallow on Migration, 187. 



major, Dendrocopus. See Wood- 

 pecker, Great Spotted. 



, Pams. See Tit, Great. 



Mallard, Recovery of Marked, 219 ; 

 and Gadwall Hybrid, 330; 

 Albino, 342. 



Manx Ornithological Notes, 215. 



Mapleton, H. W., Note on Snow- 

 Bunting in Dorset, 307. 



marila, Fuligula. See Scaup. 



marinus, Larus. See Gull, Great 

 Black-backed. 



Marked Birds, Recovery of, 181 

 207, 219, 251, 293, 299, 367, 

 399. [Cf. I., 298, 326; II., 

 245, 246, 362.] 



Marking Birds — The " British 

 Birds " Scheme, 4, 56, 179, 

 367; in Scotland, 26. [Cf. 

 I., 58, 298, 326 ; II., 35, 171, 

 362.] 



Martins, House-, Arrival of, at their 

 Breeding Haunts, 81 ; De- 

 parture of, 160 ; Recovery of 

 Marked, 219, 299. 



, Sand-, Late arrival of, in 



Scotland, 232. 



maruetta, Porzana. See Crake, 

 Spotted. 



Masefield, J. R. B., Note on Cross- 

 bills in Staffordshire, 163. 



Mathews, R. O., Note on Nesting 

 of the Snipe in Wiltshire, 28. 



Mating for Life, Birds, 79. 



maura, Pratincola torquata. See 

 Stonechat, Siberian. 



May, Isle of, Rare Birds on, 377. 



Meade-Waldo, E. G. B., Notes on 

 Crossbills in Scotland and Kent, 

 83 ; the Longevity of Birds, 

 116; Water-Rail carrying away 

 its Young, 128. 



Meares, D. H., Notes on Large 

 Brood of Reed-Warblers, 81 ; 

 Lesser Redpoll in Essex, 226. 



melanocephala, Emberiza. See 



Bunting, Black-headed. 



-, Motacilla flava. See Wagtail, 



Black-headed. 



melanoptera, Olareola. See Pratin- 

 cole, Black-winged. 



melba, Cypselus. See Swift, Alpine. 



melophilus, Erithacus rubecula. See 

 Redbreast, British. 



merganser, Mergus. See Goosander. 



Merganser, Red-breasted, Flocking 

 of, 167. 



merula, Tardus. See Blackbird. 



Meyrick, Col. H., Note on Paper 

 used as Nesting Material by 

 Lesser Redpoll, 82. 



Migration, An American's Views of 

 Bird-, 12 ; of Birds in the 

 Mediterranean, Observations on 

 the, Introductory, 36 ; Autumn 

 Migration at and around Port 

 Said, 37, 69 ; Spring Migra- 

 tion at Crete, 99 ; Migration 

 at Sea, 133 ; Notes on, 187, 

 220, 255 ; " Report on the 

 Immigrations of Summer Resi- 

 dents in the Spring of 1908," 

 reviewed, 270. 



Millais, J. G., Note on Female 

 Black Grouse assuming Male 

 Plumage, 265 ; Letter on " The 

 Natural History of British 

 Game Birds," 381. 



minor, Lanius. See Shrike, Lesser 

 Grey. 



minuta, Ardetta. See Bittern, 



Little. 



minutus, Larus. See Gull, Little. 



Molineux, H. P., Note on Bittern 

 in Sussex, 308. 



mollissima, Somateria. See Eider 

 Duck. 



Monck, E. F. B., Note on Redstart 

 in Sussex, 56. 



Monckton, F. A., Note on Cross- 

 bills nesting in Staffordshire, 

 402. 



