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DoL-omber, 1912. I am wint(M-ing in Devon. This is 

 a lovely county, especially for birds which prefer to winter 

 here to crossing the Channel. In the fields and hedgerows 

 are : Starlings, Magpies, Jackdaws, Rooks, Tits, Robins, 

 Chaffinches, Fire -crests. Fieldfares, Thrushes, and Black))irds. 

 In the estuaries are : Herons, Bitterns, Herring Gulls, Kitti- 

 wakes. Shags, and Coromants. All these I have seen, and 

 even a Razor-bill Gull on a jock out at sea; probably one 

 waiting for death. D.L., Salcombe, Devon. 



In December "B.N." we omitted to give a list of the 

 contributors to this Calendar; they are as follow : — 



E.F.C.— Miss E. F. Chawner. 



F.F.M.G.— P. F. M. Galloway. 



H.G.— H. Goodchild, M.B.O.U. 



I'.G.— Dr. P. Gosse, M.B.O.U. 



W.T. P. —Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S. 



J.S.R. — Captain J. Sherard Reeve, F.Z.S. 



U.S.— R. Suggitt. 



Editorial. 



List of Breeding Species : Mr. W. E. Teschemaker 

 informs me that we have misquoted him re breeding Paradise 

 Whydahs, as he did not succeed in breeding this species. 

 Also further research proves that Grenadier Weaver {E. siin- 

 devalli: s.p., and E. oryx) are duplicate entries, as these are 

 not noM recognised as distinct, therefore two records must be 

 struck off our list, viz : — 



Paradise ^^'hydah {Stcganura paradisea) . 



Grenadier Weaver {Euplectes sundevalli-siih. sp.). 



Re the Grenadier Weaver record. The record given in 

 our list of Medals awarded in December issue must stand, as 

 the previous record by the late Herr Wiener was quite un- 

 observed, and unobserved results are not eligible for our list. 

 We quote as follows from Cassell's " Canaries and Ca£:e Birds," 

 page 406: "A very rare local variety of Grenadier Weavers, 

 "viz., the Euplectes siindevalli, bred in my aviary without my 

 "knowledge, and I was not aware that they had been incu- 

 " bating until two young birds were flying about. How these 

 " young birds, almost as large as a Bullfinch, had room with 



