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one had slipped down and was apparently being held by the 

 head only. The old bird during its flight appeared to be 

 supporting the young one with its bill and feet, and was " all 

 doubled up, its bill meeting its claws." Mr. Nash subse- 

 quently found a drowned young one in the bog-drain and 

 presumed that the young had been frightened into the drain 

 by a dog, which was hunting about near at hand. The 

 sides of the drain being high and steep, the young birds 

 could not get out, but the one rescued by the old bird had 

 managed to reach a mud-bank just above the level of the 

 water. 



OBITUARY. 



CAPTAIN LORD LUCAS. 



It was reported that Lord Lucas was missing after making 

 a flight over the German lines on November 4th, 1916, and 

 subsequently his death was amiounced. Lord Lucas, the 

 son of the late Hon. Auberon Herbert, was born in 1876, 

 and succeeded to the baronies of Lucas and Dingwall on 

 the death of his uncle, the last Earl Cowper, in 1905. Lord 

 Lucas rowed in the Oxford boat in 1898 and 1899. During 

 the Boer War when acting as correspondent of The Times, 

 he was wounded and his leg had to be amputated below the 

 knee. But this handicap had an extraordinary small outward 

 effect on his activity, even in cross-country walking. After 

 holding several Under-Secretary ships, Lord Lucas was ap- 

 pointed President of the Board of Agriculture in 1914, but 

 on the formation of the Coalition in May, 1915, he resigned 

 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. His courage and tem- 

 perament eminently fitted him for flying, and although many 

 years over the standard age for this arm he soon became a 

 skilful pilot. 



Lord Lucas was an ardent lover of Nature, and especially 

 of birds, and was elected a member of the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union in 1902. It may be mentioned that he took 

 a considerable interest in our Marking Scheme, and only the 

 other day we had news of an interesting record of the 

 recovery of a Lapwing ringed by him some four years ago. 



