1902 Editorial ^2) 



4. Autumn Passage from Central to Southern Europe along the 



British coast. 



5. Autumn Passage from Northern to Southern Europe along the 



British coast. 



6. Winter Emigration from, and Partial Migration within, the 



British Islands.' 



7. Spring Immigration of Summer Visitants, and return of Winter 



Emigrants. 



8. Spring Emigration to Central Europe from the British Isles. 



9. Spring Emigration to Northern Europe from the British Isles. 

 10. Spring Passage from Southern to Central and Northern 



Europe along the British coast. 



But even this is not all, for the movements which take place 

 between Great Britain and Ireland, as well as between Great Britain 

 and the Hebrides and Northern Islands, have also to be considered. 



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Our spring illustrations are all of creatures more or less 

 familiar to the field naturalist, but, we trust, not the less 

 welcome on that account. Mr Southgate has gone to the 

 partridge for his example of pairing birds, and it is held by 

 some that the partridge has but one mate. The nest is built 

 in April, and the eggs number up to 18. Mr Dewhurst 

 illustrates the nests of the peewit or lapwing, which has 

 usually 4 eggs, and that of the moor-hen or water-hen, a 

 familiar bird on many inland waters, the eggs of which vary 

 in number from 6 to g. He also took the photos of the 

 larva of the puss moth on poplar, and the moth itself on 

 willow. The photographs of the death's-head moth and the 

 convolvulus hawk moth, as well as that of the small tortoise- 

 shell butterfly, are by Mr J. Peat Millar. The field naturalist 

 who is a photographer will be perfectly happy for the next 

 few months of the year, and some of his difficulties may be 

 smoothed by the advice tendered by Mr Watkins in his 

 article on "Animal Photography" (p. 138). 



