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SEPTEMBER, 



1896. 









No. 



7. 



THIS 



ORNITHOLOGIST : 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF 



ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



EDITED BY 



H. K. SWANN, 



With the assistance of 



J. Whitaker, F.Z.S. 

 O. V. Aplin, F.L.S. 

 F. B. Whitlock. 



Rev. H. A. Macpherson. 

 W. Hy. Heathcote, F.L.S. 

 G.E. H. Barrett-Hamilton 

 (Ireland). 



CONTENTS. 



Ornithological Notes from Iceland, Charles D. Head 



Oological Eccentricities, H. S. Davenport ... 



The Purple Sandpiper, Edmund A. S. Elliot, M.B.O.U. 



Rough Notes from North Wales, John A. Bucknill, B.A. 



Notices of New Books :— The Eggs of the Limicolre, by F. Poynting, 

 Rev. Murray A. Mat hew, M.B.O.U. 



Observations and Queries : — On .Sub-species, Ernst Hartert ; Albino 

 Starling, Win. Blake ; Spotted Eggs of Martin, W. Hy. Heathcote, 

 F.L.S. ; The Green Woodpecker, D. E. McCausland ; Breeding 

 Habits of the Sparrow-Hawk, R. C. Davenport, Robert IVarren, and 

 H. S. Davenport ; A Moorhen's Nesting Site, Chas. Milburn : 

 Andersonian Naturalists' Society ; The Wall Creeper ( Tichodroma 

 muraria) in Sussex, W. C. J. Ruskin Butter field, M.B.O.U. ; 

 Nesting of the Willow- Warbler, H Kirke Swann ; American Robin 

 in Connaught, R. J. Ussher, M.B.O.U. 



Notes and News 



Additions to Zoological Society's Collection 



Books, &c, Received 



To Correspondents 



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