BRFIISHDIRDS 



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



assisted by 

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

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



Contents of Number 10, Vol. VII. March 2, 1914. 



The Cotirtship of the Common Gull. By Maud D. Haviland . . 278 



Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire. By G. Bathurst Hony, 



M.B.O.U 281 



The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. By Alfred Heneage Cocks 291 



Notes : — ' 



Pine-Grosbeaks in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . . . 292' 



Two-barred Crossbills in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) . . 292 



Incursion of Waxwings . . . . . . • . • . • . 292 



Siberian Chiff chaff in Kent (H. G. Alexander) . . . . 296- 



Kite Nesting in Devonshire (Rev. J. R. Hale and Clifford 



Borrer) 298 



Kites in Somersetshire (A. F. R. Wollaston) ; in Derbyshire 

 (Rev. F. C. R. Join?dain) ; in Buckinghamshire (Hon. 



Walter Rothschild) 299 



Pintails in Berkshire (R. Burnier and P. A. Chubb) . . 300' 



Red-breasted Mergansers in Surrey (Miss Flora Russell) . . 300 



Black-headed Gull feigning Lameness (H. B. Ttirney) . . 300' 



Arctic Skua in Shropshire (H. E. Forrest) . . . . . . 301 



" Hairy " Variety of the Moorhen (H. E. Forrest) . . . . 301 



Slender-billed Nutcracker in Surrey (T. A. Coward) . . 301 



Short Notes : — Northern Bullfinch in Orkney. Crossbill Nesting 

 in Suffolk in January. Richard's Pipit in Midlothian. 

 Supposed Yellow-browed Warbler in Kirkcudbright- 

 shire. Cuckoo's eggs in nests of House-Sparrow. 

 Sparrow-Hawk and Mistle-Thrush at Barra. Cor- 

 morant's mode of progression under water. Little 

 Bustard in Sussex. Rare migrants in Auskerry . , 301 



Letters : — Fleas and Beetles in old Nests of Birds (Norman H. 

 Joy), Baer's Pochard in Nottinghamshire (The 

 Duchess of Bedford) 304- 



