birds. We heartily congratulate the Editors and all concerned in

its production, on the success which their journal has already

attained ; and we hope the second volume, which commences in

July, may be a still further success.


The Foreign Bird Club has discontinued the publication

of Foreign Bird Notes , but has joined with the National British

Bird and Mule Club in the production of a small journal entitled

Bitd Notes , the second part of which has just appeared. Mr. J.

Frostick contributes a useful paper on food for soft-billed birds,

and there are several interesting notes on foreign and British

birds, and their treatment in captivity.



OBITUARY NOTICE.



SIR HARRY THOMPSON, K.C.M.G.


Our Society has probably sustained a greater loss than it

is aware of in the sudden death announced in The Tunes of Sir

Harry Thompson, K.C.M.G., Administrator of S. Lucia.


Both he and Lady Thompson were interested in birds and

might have been trusted to do the best they could to secure the

birds of any places in which they might reside, and as Sir Harry

was in the prime of life, we cannot say to what places he might

not have been appointed, from which he might have secured

bird rarities. Apart from this, however, Lady Thompson will

have the sincerest sympathy of our members in her bereavement.



BIRD NOTES.



Mr. Finn contributes some interesting notes on the White-breasted

Kingfisher Halcyon smyrtiensis) of India, to the April number of the

Zoologist. This bird occasionally practices piracy. “ An individual which

haunts the Museum pond,” Mr. Finn writes, “ wherein there are some

Dabchicks, has several times been seen by me to attempt to rob one of

these birds of a fish which it had captured, and once, at all events, with

success.”


Mr. Frank M. Littler contributes an interesting paper to the Emu on



