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



assisted by 



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



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



Contents of Number 8, Vol. VII. January 1, 1914. 



On the Breeding Habits of the Dartford Warbler. By Percy F 



Bvmyard 

 The Dusky Warbler in Orknej' : A New British Bird 

 Recovery of Marked Birds 



Notes : — 



Unusual Birds at Dungeness (H. G. Alexander) 



Diminution of Starlings (J. R. B. Masefield) . . 



Siskins in Anglesey (C. Oldham) 



Mealy Redpoll in Leicestershire (S. H. Pilgrim) 



Shore-Lark in Bedfordshire (W. Rowan) 



Grey Wagtail Breeding in Hampshire (P. W. Miinn) 



Pied Wagtails rearing two Broods in one Nest (A. G. Leigh 



and H. F. Witherby) 



Curious Behaviour of a Young Whitethroat (L. R. W. Loyd) 

 Black Redstarts in Lincolnshire and Northumberland (Rev, 



F. L. Blathwayt and H. F. Witherby) 

 Breeding of the Dipper in Wiltshire (Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain) 

 Ring-Ouzel as Foster-Parent of Cuckoo (Rev. F. L. Blathwajrt) 

 Cuckoo Depositing Egg among Incubated Eggs (H. R. Tutt) 

 Courting Habits of the Cuckoo (L. R. W. Loyd) 

 Foster-parents of Cuckoo (G. Bolam) . . 

 Cuckoos' Eggs and Nestlings in 1913 (J. H. Owen) 

 Squacco Heron in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Slavonian Grebe m Lancashu'e (H. W. Robinson) 

 Avocets in Gloucestershire (H. W. Robmson) 

 Bonaparte's Gull in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 

 Little Gull in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) . . 

 Short Notes : — Scarce birds in Ireland. Whmchat breeding 

 in CO. Cork. Swallows and House-Martin in England 

 in December. Ttu"tle-Dove in Renfrewshire. Wood- 

 Sandpiper and Spotted Redshank in Renfrewshire. 

 Food of Red Grouse. Reports of Quail 

 Re\"iews : — Report on the Immigration of Snm,m,er-residents in 

 the Spring of 1912. The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie. 

 Our Common Sea-Birds . . 

 Letters : — Green Woodpecker eating an Apple (A. R. Gillman). 

 Breeding-habits and Young of Roseate Terns 

 (Heatley Noble). Herring-Guils Diving (W. J. Clarke, 

 L. R. W. Loyd, and John S. Tulloch). Plumage of 

 the Glaucous Gull (Eric B. Dunlop) . . 



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