BRITI5l1Dir\D5 



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



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, m.a., m.b.o.tj., and Norman F. 

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



Contents of Number 5, Vol. VIII. October ], 1914. 



Page 

 Increase and Decrease in Summer Residents. Report on the 



1913 Inquiry. By M. Vaughan, M. A., M.B.O.U 106 



Recovery of ftlarked Birds .. .. .. .. .. Ill 



Notes : — 



Rose-coloured Starlings in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 114 



Fecundity of the House-Sparrow (Miller Christy) . . . . 114 



Notes on the Young of the Spotted Flycatcher (J. H. Owen) 114 



Whitethroat using Supplementary Nest (Howard Bentham) 116 

 Size of Song-Thrush Broods in the Scilly Isles (H. W. 



Robinson) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 117 



Late Nesting of the Nightjar (Clifford Borrer) . . . . 117 



Cuckoos' Eggs and Nestlings in 1914 (J. H. Owen) . . 118 



Development of Young Peregrine Falcons (Rev. D. A. Scott) 119 



Food of Sparrow-Hawks (Heatley Noble) . . . . . . 119 



Gadwall in Cheshire (John A. Dockray) . . . . . . 120 



Ferruginous Duck in Carnarvonshire (C. Oldham) . . . . 120 



Stone-Curlew Breeding in Buckinghamshire (Edwin Holhs) 121 



YeUowshank in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 121 



Spotted Crake in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 122 



Moor-Hen Covering Eggs (E. A. Wallis, N. H. Foster and 



H. Massey) 122 



Short Notes : — Notes from Scottish Islands, Spring, 1914. 

 Grey-headed Wagtail and Continental Redbreasts on 

 the Isle of May. White's Thrush in Aberdeenshire. 

 The Ospreys of Loch an Eilein. Fulmar Petrels in 

 Kincardineshire. Decrease of BlaCk-headed Gulls 

 in Dumfriesshire . . . . . . . . . . 123 



Review : — Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1913, including 



Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 



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