. British birds . y (Howard Bentham)Manx Shearwater in Staffordshire (J. R. B. Masefield)Common Sandpipers in Dorset (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt)Wood-Sandpipers Inland in Lincolnshire (G. Bolam)Black-tailed Godwit in S. Devon (W. Walmesley White)Black Tern in Lancashire (R. A. H. Coombes)Some Recent Records of Irish Birds (R. F. Ruttledge) Short Notes :— Combined Nest of Song-Thrush and Wren. Cuckoos Egg inNest of Song-Thrush. Cinnamon Coloured Wren in Sussex Review:— A Geographical Bibliography of British OrnilJiologv from theearliest times to 1918. () Letter:—Breeding of the Wood-Lark in Som
. British birds . y (Howard Bentham)Manx Shearwater in Staffordshire (J. R. B. Masefield)Common Sandpipers in Dorset (Rev. F. L. Blathwayt)Wood-Sandpipers Inland in Lincolnshire (G. Bolam)Black-tailed Godwit in S. Devon (W. Walmesley White)Black Tern in Lancashire (R. A. H. Coombes)Some Recent Records of Irish Birds (R. F. Ruttledge) Short Notes :— Combined Nest of Song-Thrush and Wren. Cuckoos Egg inNest of Song-Thrush. Cinnamon Coloured Wren in Sussex Review:— A Geographical Bibliography of British OrnilJiologv from theearliest times to 1918. () Letter:—Breeding of the Wood-Lark in Somerset (Stanley Lewis) PAGE 127129 132132132132133133133134135 T35136136137 13S139139139139140141X41141141142 143 T43144 122 ) THE BLACK TERN. E. L. TURNER, I PUT up a tent before the nest of a Black Tern [Hydyochdidonn. nigra) on May 21st, and went straight into it. This iscontrary to my usual custom, as it is generally a waste of it rained and there was no other shelter on the BLACK TERN. Covered with rain-drops.{Photographed by E. L, Turner.) However, although the bird had only been sitting a dayor two, she returned at once, I made an exposure and sheflew away. She would not come back, though her matetried to drive her down after the manner of male Terns ingeneral. They are often very irate if the females are shyof the camera, though not often willing to face the dangerthemselves. At last both birds alighted a few yards fromthe nest, sidled up near it, craned their necks and peeped atthe tent. They squawked a good deal. It looked as if the VOL. XIV.] THE BLACK TERN. 123 hen had induced the cock to come and see for himself thatthere really was cause for anxiety and that it was not a caseof mere feminine nerves. They flew away, and so I left followed me until I reached the high road, and one birdimmediately went back to the nest. I felt vexed with them,as it turned out a glorious day after all, and I had nothingelse to do. However
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