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House of Lords, and has recently passed the third reading 

 there, fixing an annual close time from 1st October to 

 15th December, a period corresponding to the breeding 

 season of this interesting animal. The Grey Seal differs 

 from its congeners in the fact that its young are not able 

 to swim until they are a fortnight or three weeks old. 

 They are born well above high-water mark, and hence 

 become an easy prey to destruction. Of late years the 

 number of these animals has been seriously reduced, and 

 Scottish naturalists must feel grateful to the promoters 

 of this Bill, which has come just in time to save one of 

 our most interesting native mammals from extinction. 



The bird-life of the island of Eigg forms the subject 

 of an article by J. Kirke Nash. 1 Fifty-three species are 

 recorded, five of which are stated to be new to the island, 

 namely the Mistle-thrush, the Pheasant, the Common Tern, 

 and the Red-throated and Black-throated Divers. Several 

 Swallows were observed and found nesting, and the Great 

 Black-backed Gull and Oystercatcher stated to breed on 

 the island. The presence of the Common Tern and the 

 breeding of the two species last mentioned were recorded, 

 however, by Messrs A. H. and H. A. Macpherson in the 

 Zoologist for 1888. 



We cordially congratulate the editors of the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine upon the publication, on the 1st June, 

 of their " Jubilee Number." The four pages of " Editorial" 

 which form a preface to the number are interesting read- 

 ing, and are embellished by a plate, giving portraits of 

 eight past editors, all of whom were well-known specialists 

 in various orders of insects, and five of them founders of 

 the journal. Unfortunately all are gone from our midst, 

 but their splendid work remains, and when it is realised 

 that during the past fifty years no fewer than 2992 species 

 of insects have been recorded as new to Britain in the 

 pages of this magazine, the value of their labours will 

 be appreciated. We cordially wish our entomological con- 

 temporary a long continuance of this splendid record. 



A well-written paper by T. E. Lones, entitled " Notes 

 1 Zoologist, June 1914, pp. 226-234. 



