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is extending, or whether it is rather more widely distributed in the 

 Highlands than was suspected. — Henrv Coates, The Museum, 

 Perth. 



Nais elinguis, Miill.;, on the Isle of May. — On 29th April 

 and i6th May 1912, I found this little Annelid in profusion among 

 fresh-water algse {Ulothrix, etc.) in a small pool on the Isle of May. 

 The pool is on one of the higher parts of the island, and being 

 a mere hollow in which surface water collects, it is usually dried-up 

 for a time in summer. Specimens of the worm were sent to the 

 Rev. Hilderic Friend, who confirmed my identification, thus 

 removing the "square brackets" used in connection with the species 

 in my paper on "The Oligochasta (Earthworms and their allies) of 

 the Forth Area," published in Froc. Roy. Phys. Soc. for session 

 1 909-1 9 10. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A Bird Lover's Year. By the Hon. Gladys Graham Murray. London : 

 Eveleigh Nash, 1915. Price 3s. 6d. net. 



This dainty little volume is made up of a series of thirteen essays 

 dealing with various aspects of bird life, and arranged chronologically 

 under the various months of the year. Written in a simple and pleasing 

 style, and imbued throughout with an unconscious enthusiasm which reveals 

 the great love of the authoress for her subject, the book cannot fail to 

 interest the nature-lover for whom it is intended. It would indeed form 

 a charming gift-book for young persons with scientific tendencies, and 

 would not only foster and encourage such tastes, but would answer in 

 the pleasantest manner possible many of the questions which are apt to 

 bewilder the tiro in the course of his studies in ornithology. The 

 thirteen full-page photographic plates which accompany the essays are 

 from negatives by the Rev. H. N. Bonar, and are all excellent. 



Report on the Immigration of Summer Residents in the 

 Spring of 1913 ; also Notes on the Migratory Move- 

 ments DURING the Autumn of 1912. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 Vol. XXXIV. Price 6s. net. 



This is the penultimate report of the ten promised by the Committee 

 of the British Ornithologist's Club. It deals with the subject on much 

 the same lines as its predecessors, and contains a mass of valuable 



