BRITBnDIRDS 



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



assisted by 

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

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



Contents of Number 11, Vol. VII. April 1, 1914. 



A Student of Gulls. H.F.W 



Manx Ornithological Notes, 1912-13. By P. G. Ralfe . . 



Notes : — 



On the Crossing of the Bill of the Crossbill (Miller Christy) 



Tree-Creeper Hatching Eggs of Redstart (A. E. Aldous) 



Firecrest in Norfolk (H. P. Williams) . . 



Incursion of Waxwings . . 



Redwing singing in England (N. B. Ashworth) 



Robin singing at Night (.7. H. OWen) . . 



Incubation of the Peregrine Falcon (D. A. Scott) 



Marsh-Harrier in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 



Gadwall and Little GtoII in Essex (J. Beddall Smith) 



Great Shearwater in Sussex (H. W. Ford-Lindsay) 



Slavonian Grebe in Carnarvonshire (R. W. Jones) 



Moult of the Common Sandpiper (Dr. C. B. Ticehurst) 



Common Sandpipers in Winter in Surrey and Essex (F. W, 

 Frohawk) 



Unusual Winter-Migration of Woodcock (E. W. Wade) 



Lesser Black-backed Gulls in Lancashire in Winter (H. W, 

 Robinson) . . . . .... 



Black Guillemot in Lancashire (H. W. Robinson) 



Short Notes : — Parasitism in relation to birds. Summer- 

 migrants in winter. Status of the Gadwall in 

 Staffordshire 



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