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



assisted by 



Rev. F. C. R. Jotjrdain, m.a., m.b.o.u., and Norman F 



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



Contents of Number 2, Vol. VII. July 1, 1913. 



The Sense of Smell in the Grey Lag-Goose. 

 Best and Maud D. Haviland 



By Mary G. S. 



R.N.) 

 R.N.) 



Discovery of a Colony of Tree-Sparrows on InishtrahuU Island, 

 CO. Donegal. By Prof. C. J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D. 



Notes : — 



Migration of British Winter-visitant Starlings (A. Lands- 

 borough Thomson) 

 Linnets Nesting on the Ground (Clifford Borrer and George 



Baynes) . . 

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

 Red-throated Pipits in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Goldcrest Nesting in North Anglesey (H. E. Forrest) 

 Mistle-Thrush removing Dead Young (J. G. Gordon ) 

 Whin chat Breeding in co. Cork (J. H. Stenhouse, M.B 

 Nest of Whin chat in a Can (J. H. Stenhouse, M.B. 

 Nightingales in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) 

 Cuckoo depositing Egg among Incubated Eggs (J. H. Owen) 

 Little Owl Breedmg in Nottinghamshire (Chas. E. Pearson) 

 Large Clutches of Eggs of Tawny Owl (Edward Earle) 

 Tufted Duck Breeding in Essex (William E. Glegg) 

 Fulmar Petrel Breeding in co. Kerry (R. M. Barrington) 

 Grey Plover in the Outer Hebrides (Maud D. Haviland) 

 Lapwing's Nest with Five Eggs (J. H. Owen) 

 Nest-making by Lapwings (Lewis R. W. Loyd) 

 Spotted Sandpipers in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Redshank Nesting in Somerset (D. Munro Smith) . . 

 Black Tern in the Outer Hebrides (Maud D. Haviland) 

 Caspian Tern in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Scandinavian Lesser Black-backed Gulls in Norfolk 

 Suffolk (C. B. Ticehurst) 



Short Note : — Albinistic Lapwing (Maud D. Haviland) 



Review: — X. and XI. Jahres-berichte (1910 and 1911) 



Vogelwarte Rossitten 



Letters : — Supposed Little Bittern in Shropshire (H. E 

 Forrest). Small Clutches of Eggs (Lewis R. W. Loyd). 

 The Singing of Birds on Migration (C. B. Ticehurst) 



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