BRITBnDIN)5 



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 Ntjmbeb 3, Vol. VII. August 1, 1913. 



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. The Late Philip Lutley Sclater. By A. H. Evans . . . . 66 

 The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider. By J. G. 



Millais 69 



Notes : — 



Crossbills breeding in Suffolk for the Fourth Year in Suc- 

 cession (P. F. Bunyard) . . . . . . . . . . 81 



Crossbills breeding in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . 82 



Firecrests in Kent (H. G. Alexander) . . . . . . 82 



Wood- Warbler in Northern Sutherland (G. Brcoksbank) 83 



Curious site for Nest of Nightingale (Walter B. Nichols) 83 

 Cuckoos and the Struggle for Breeding-territory (H. Eliot 



Howard) . . 83 



Little Owl Breeding in Essex (Miss Cecily J. Gumey) . . 85 



Furruginous Duck in Kent (H. G. Alexander) . . . . 85 



Incubation-period of the Common Sandpiper (H. B. Tumey) 86 



Gull-billed Terns in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 86 



Common Terns Breeding in Essex (Walter B. Nichols) . . 87 

 Moorhen's double Nest built into one (J. G. Gordon and 



H. F. Witherby) 87 



Coots and Moorhens Laying in the same Nest (A. Geoffrey 



Leigh) .. .. .. 88 



Short Notes : — ^Hawfinch in Sutherland. Mealy Redpolls 

 in Wigtownshire. Sykes's Wagtail in Scotland. 

 Grey-headed Wagtail at the Isle of May. White 

 Wagtails in south-east Ireland. Continental 

 Redbreast and Song-Thrush in Haddingtonshire. 

 Hoopoe in Fifeshire. Cuckoo reared in Starling's 

 Nest. Iceland Falcon in the Outer Hebrides. Green- 

 land Falcons in Ireland and Scotland. Honey- 

 Buzzard in Shetland. Increase of Fulmar Petrel 

 in Caithness. Gull-billed Tern in Orkney. Great 

 Skua in Wigtownshire . . . . . . . . 88 



Letters : — ^Tufted Duck Breeding in Essex and the Presence 

 of Non-breeding Birds (Miller Christy and E. W. 

 Hendy). Small Clutches of Eggs (Herbert Massey 

 and S. G. Cummings^ . . . . . . . . 91 



