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systematically protected. This shows a steady increase from 

 120 in 1900 to 423 in 1911, and cannot but be a som'ce of 

 gratification to all who are interested in the preservation 

 of this the largest and one of the least numerous of our 

 Terns. A very interesting point also is the description given 

 of the coloration of the downy young in this species, and the 

 light and dark phases into which they can be separated. 

 This is well ilUistrated in the two photographs in Plate 6. 

 The similar dimorphism in the young Arctic and Common 

 Terns, which had been previously recorded, is also corroborated 

 as regards the former species by Mr. Bickerton, and illus- 

 trated on Plate 32. 



Most ornithological readers will naturally turn first to the 

 chapter on the Roseate Tern and the seven very beautiful 

 plates accompanying it, for in it most of us will gather our 

 first intimate knowledge of the home-life of one of our rarest 

 British breeding birds illustrated by what are probably the 

 first photographs ever taken of it in a wild state. The 

 author is much to be congratulated on the success that 

 attended his researches in this direction, and it is gratifying 

 to know that in this one locality he definitely identified eight 

 nests of the Roseate Tern, and estimated their numbers so 

 high as fifteen to twenty pairs. N.F.T. 



DEATH OF MR. W. B. TEGETMEIER. 



We greatly regret to have to record the death, at the great 

 age of ninety-six, of Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, which occurred 

 on November 19th, 1912, at Golder's Green, N.W. 

 Mr. Tegetmeier will perhaps best be remembered for his work 

 in connexion with poultry and pheasants, and the help he 

 afforded to Charles Darwin in the preparation of his work on 

 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 

 We hope to publish a short memoir of Mr. Tegetmeier in 

 our next number. 



