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would, if left unmolested, produce two layings at the most. This is 

 not a plea for the justification of any wholesale robbery of nests but 

 for a more rational treatment of the subject by our legislators. It is 

 no secret that one or two prominent ornithologists have collaborated 

 with the peers responsible for the Bill, but their advice has been 

 mainly sought, it is imagined, in regard to the names of the species 

 most needing protection. One of these gentlemen was, however, 

 able to get the insertion into the Bill of a clause providing against 

 the importation and acclimatisation of foreign birds without special 

 sanction. In view of the lamentable results following the intro- 

 duction of Passer domesiicus into other countries, not to mention 

 other less prominent mistakes of this kind, this is a good provision. 

 The Bill will, in due course, have to pass through the House of 

 Commons, and subscribers of this paper should communicate with 

 their Members of Parliament with a view to securing some modi- 

 fication of the clauses it contains. 



Eggs of the Raptores. — The further notes on the eggs of the 

 Raptores, which appear in the present issue, might at first sight 

 seem to exhaust what is known on this subject. We are still hoping, 

 however, that Mr. Stuart Baker will describe for us some of his very 

 rare Indian eggs of this group, and that some prominent collector 

 in the New World, such for instance as Mr. Parker Norris, will tell 

 us of his rarest types. 



Singles and Pairs. — How often it happens that a very fine 

 type of even some common species finds its best expression in a 

 single or a pair. It may be that a bird whose condition at the time 

 of laying is not normal lays abnormal eggs and not a full clutch. 



Curious types of eggs may result from such causes — one can 

 only guess — but happen it does, and too many collectors scorn to 

 give singles and pairs room in their cabinets. For our part, we 

 find ourselves in accord with some of the foremost oologists of the 

 time in our appreciation of the pair or even the single if it illustrates 

 an outstanding type, though naturally we would prefer that it had 

 been a full set. 



Russia. — Oologists no less than members of the commercial and 

 financial world always have an eye turned towards Russia, and the 

 news that has come through quite recently is better and better. 

 A new currency is being established with a backing of gold, trade 

 is being encouraged, and, following a good harvest, conditions are 



