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Here we have real experience — the experience 

 which is derived from a lengthy trial of bath S3^stem.s, 

 and with which the " experience" of onh^ one method 

 cannot well be compared, — although it has been said 

 to be " good enough for most men." 



THE GREAT CRESTED GREBE :-^/';^/>^5 of 

 Dr. McDonagh's interesting note on this bird I may 

 mention that when halting on my way northwards 

 during my recent motor tour at a roadside inn on the 

 Chester Road as it passes through Staffordshire, I saw 

 in a wall case two splendid specimens of this bird 

 which had been shot at Middleton Hall in that county 

 about half a dozen years ago. 



I also remember some of these birds breeding 

 about forty odd years ago on a small lake on the 

 immediate outskirts of Clun, a small market town 

 on the Welsh border of Shropshire, where they went 

 by the name of lyoons. This latter fact would seem 

 to indicate that they were fairly well known to the 

 rustics of the neighbourhood, but I cannot now re- 

 member how many seasons I noticed them, nor \'et 

 how many there were, and since of late years I have 

 lost touch with the neighbourhood I am not able to 

 state whether they frequent that water still. 



Cowitry Life for June 2 of this year contained an 

 article illustrated with some charming photographs of 

 these birds and their nests, which had been taken by 

 the exercise of marvellous patience and ingenuity by, 

 I think, a lad}^ but not having the paper b\^ me I am 

 not quite sure as to particulars. 



AVIAN PATHOLOGY :— Mr. Gray's letter on 

 another page calls for some notice. First of all I can 



