BRIHSHDIRDS 



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., and Norman F. 

 ticehurst, m.a., f.r.c.s., m.b.o.u. 



Contents of Number 2, Vol. VIII. July 1, 1914. 



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Ecological Relations of Bii-d-distribution. By S. E. Brock . . 30 



Recovery of Marked Birds . . . . . . . . . . 45 



Notes : — 



The Land-Rail Inquiry . . 



Notes on Early Nesting (L. R. W. Loyd and A. Collett) 

 Cock House-Sparrow assisting to Incubate (J. H. Owen) 

 Incursion of Waxwings . . 

 Lesser Whitethroat and Nuthatch in Anglesey (R. W. Jones) 

 Short Interval between two Nests of Robin (J. H. Owen) 

 Alpine Swifts in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Nesting-habits of Woodpeckers (J. H. Owen) . . 

 Nestling Cuckoo ejecting two Eggs at once (J. H. Owen) 

 Clutches of Five Eggs of Peregrme Falcon (W. M. Congreve) 

 Cormorants nesting in Norfolk (J. H. Gumey) 

 Asiatic Golden Plovers in Sussex (T. Parkin) 

 \ Siindwich Terns in Denbighshire (R. W. Jones) 

 "^ kittle Gull in Staffordshire (J. R. B. Masefield) 

 Erythristic Eggs of Black-headed Gull (T. H. Nelson) 

 Iceland Gull in Kent (H. G. Alexander) 

 " Ringed " Guillemot in Anglesey (R. W. Jones) 

 Moorhen covering eggs (J. H. Owen) 



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Short Notes : — Birds in Norfolk in 1913. Black -headed 

 Buntings in Yorkshire and Sussex. Pied Flycatcher 

 in CO. Cork. White's Thrush in Sussex. Increase of 

 Gannets at Little Skellig. Further increase of Fulmar 

 Petrels in Ireland. Sandwich Tern breeding in Jersey. 54 



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