eee a oy ¥ BRITDIBIRDS NivH WHICH WAS INCORPORATED IN JANUARY, 1917, ‘ ‘Tam ZOOLOGIST, AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE DEVOTED CHIEFLY 'TO THE BIRDS ON THE BRITISH LIST EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY M.B.E. F.Z.S. M.B.O.U. ASSISTED BY Rev. F. C. R. JOURDAIN M.A. M.B.O.U. H.F.A.O.U. AND NORMAN F. TICEHURST oO.B-E. M.A. F.R.C.S. M.B.O.U. Ih Volume XVII. JUNE 1923 — MAY 1924. H. F. & G. WITHERBY 326 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. View of section of Malahide Sand-bank. abit aoe by A. F. Park) Tracing from Ordnance Survey “Map, 1909, " shewing outline of Bank at High Tide ot Malahide Island Golf Links with Breeding Ground of Terns Sixteenth Century Bird Drawings r3. OySTERCATCHER: Unusual nest of. (Photographed by Seton Gordon) mre ras : GREEN WOODPECKER: Wings of the (A) " Adult, (B) Juvenile showing two abbreviated inner primaries + i - oo e4 ze BaRN-OwL: Material taken from nest-hole. (Photo- graphed by Miss Clemence M. Acland) =n Bewick’s SwAN: Diagrams of portions of bill of, to illustrate markings WHIMBREL: Returning to the nest with rapid strides. (Photographed by W. E. Glegg) ‘ WHIMBREL: Nest. (Photographed by W. E. Glegg) WuHIMBREL: Preparing to settle on the eggs. (Photo- graphed by W. E. Glegg) ... a ae — WHIMBREL: Well settled down. oli ies eat by W. E. Glegg) . MERLIN: Female brooding young ten day S old, in sunny weather, July 2nd, 1922. The young can be seen under her breast. (Photographed by G. C. S. Ingram) MERLIN: Female br ooding during a heav y rain 1 storn m. (Photographed by G. c 5. Ingram) MarsuH-HArRRIER: Egg and young in the nest. ‘(Photo- graphed by EF. A. Armstrong) : a WHIMBREL: Egg and chick in nest. _ (Photographed by R. Chislett) ‘* WHIMBREL : Rising to accommodate a chick, \(Photo- graphed by R. Chislett) ‘ i WuIMBREL: Drawing near to egg and chick. ‘(Photo- graphed by R. Chislett) _ Swiss NATIONAL Park: Piz Quater V als and Val Sassa. (Photographed by W. H. Thorpe) Swiss NaTIoNAL PARK: Val Cluoza and Piz del Diay el. (Photographed by W. H. Thorpe) = OYSTERCATCHER: White egg of. (Photographed by L. J. Turtle) . : CURLEW: Large clutch of eggs. (Photographed by Misses E. V. Baxter and L. 3 Rintoul) PAGE IV. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. BLACKBIRD: An unusual nest. a le aie by M. U. Hachisuka) ; Eg Sei 5 Great SPOTTED WooDPECKER: Fir-cone placed in position in cleft—and a worked cone at side. (Photographed by N. Tracy) de is es SNIPE, BRITISH AND AMERICAN: Outer tail-feathers from (above) 18 British Snipe (Capella g. gallinago), (below) 17 American Snipe (C. g. delicata). (Photo- graphed from feathers arranged by Col. R. Meinertz- hagen) Ae x <- SNIPE, BRITISH AND AMERICAN : "Axillary feathers ol (above) 22 British Snipe (Capella g. gallinago), (below) 15 American Snipe (C. g. delicata). (Photo- graphed from feathers arranged by Col. R. 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A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DUCKS ‘Bue JOFENZ-CTAPHIEbI BS Associate Curator of Birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College With Plates in Colour and in Black-and-White FROM DRAWINGS BY FRANK W. BENSON, ALLAN BROOKS anp LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES Go be Completed in Four Volumes VOLUME 1I.—Plectropterine, Dendrocygnine, Anatine (in part) With 20 Maps and I8 Plates, of which 9 are in Colour LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.4 BRITSABIKDS WITH WHICH WAS INCORPORATED IN JANUARY, 1917, ‘‘ THE ZOOLOGIST.’ EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, M.B.E., F.Z.8.. M.B.0.U ASSISTED BY REv. F. C. R. JOURDAIN, M.A., M.B.O.U., H.F.A.0.U., AND NORMAN F, TICEHURST, 0.B:E.; M.A., F\R.C.S., M.B.O.U. «~~ op) , ae = —- —= wee a -~—-—-+= = _ — CONTENTS OF NUMBER 1,(VOL) X%VII.,~JUNE/IST, 1923. PAGE Additions and Corrections to the Practical Handbook of British Birds and to the Hand-List of British Birds 2 The Malahide, Co. Dublin, Tern Colony. By Geo. R. Hum phreys, MBO, <. 3 On Some Sixteenth Century Bird Drawings. By N. F. Tice- hurst, M.A., F.R.C.S., ENG. ey oe “ef an m3 12 Manx Ornithological Notes for 1921 and 1922. By P. G. Ralfe 17 Notes :— Probable Golden Oriole in Suffolk (Charles E. Alford) See 21 Nuthatch concealing its Eggs during Incubation (Gerard H. Gurney and Stanley Lewis) ... ne see an oa 21 Woodchat Shrike in Pembrokeshire (The Hon. Guy Charteris) 22 Little Owl in Pembrokeshire (Major W. M. Congreve)