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the results wliich ^ci with this article. I think most i)eople will 

 a.i^ree with me that the Curlew's cry is a most pleasing- one, 

 whether heard on the coast or the moorlands. I trust that these 

 notes of the l)ird may l)e of some interest to the readers of "Bird 

 Notes." 



Before conclndinn' I should like to make a few remarks 

 about the WHiimbrel, a bird very similar to the Curlew, Init of 

 smaller size. Whimbrels are birds of passage, appearini;' on 

 our coasts in s]>rin,<.i" and autunm. A few of them remain all 

 thrcni.gh the sunnner, but these are l)ir(is in innnature plumaij^e. 

 They are not so shy as the Curlew's and are therefore easier to 

 study. In September they may be seen associating- with Red- 

 shanks and other small waders, and are also often found with 

 Curlews. In flight and food they resemble their larger relative, 

 and their nest is also similar — a shallow hole in the ground, but 

 the eggs are, naturally, smaller. A few pairs breed in the Ork- 

 ney and Shetlands. but the chief places are Iceland, the Faroe 

 Islands, and other places in the Arctic. In captivity the habits 

 and food of the Whimbrel are the same as the Curlews, and it is 

 cpiite as attractive, the smaller size of the former being, prac- 

 tically, the only difference here! That is about all I can write 

 now. I am hoping to get off another article before returning 

 to the front line again, and I know our esteemed editor is some- 

 times hard up for copy in these troublous times, so I want to 

 do my bit to ease him as far as I can. Good-bye and good luck to 

 him and my fellow members of the F.B.C. 



M-K 



A Cruise on the S.Y. " Vectis." 



By W. Shore Baily. 

 When this dreadful war is over and conditions are once 

 more something like normal, many of us wdio have been making 

 munitions, or have been engaged on other work of national 

 importance frequently under very diflficult conditions, will admit 

 that we are entitled to take a reasonable holiday. To these I 

 would say try a trip through Norwegian Fjords, and you are 

 not likely to repent it. If you are an ornithologist, you will 

 constantly be kept in sight of birds of many kinds. If a botanist, 



