162 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, <&c. 



The photographs reproduced include Norman Doorway, Shalbourne 

 Church ; The Devil's Den ; and Sunset, Pewsey Downs. 



Among the Bird Notes, the Stone Curlew is stated to have hatched 

 off a brood at Hackpen, and a Lesser Eedpole was found nesting in the 

 Forest. 



Report of Marlborough College Natural History 

 Society for year ending 1906. No. 55. tWs Report, 



as usual, contains the record of much excellent work. Incidentally, too, 

 it is a pleasure to see that the indefatigable President and Editor (Mr. 

 E. Meyrick), who is perhaps the foremost authority on the Micro 

 Lejpidoptera now living, has lately been elected a Fellow of the Koyal 

 Society, an honour which he has justly earned by the enormous amount 

 of work which he has done in past years and is still doing in the very 

 difficult task of classifying and naming the smaller moths from all parts 

 of the world. Mr. Meyrick reprints and brings up to date his very 

 useful list of birds which have occurred in the Marlborough District, 

 correcting the entry in Mr. Smith's Birds of Wilts of the Eed-necked 

 Phalarope (P. hyperboreus) as having occurred in Wilts, showing that 

 this was an error, the bird in question being the Grey Phalarope (P. 

 fuUcarius). An interesting bird note, too, records the fact that 

 the Woodcoch nested and hatched its young near Marlborough, last year, 

 the first recorded instance of its breeding in the neighbourhood. 



Nine new species of Lepidoptera, two of Coleoptera, were found, 

 and five new species were added to the list by the Botanical Section, 

 Selleborus foetidzis at Everley, Melilotus parvifiora, Centaurea 

 solstitiaUs, Pyrola minor at Savernake, and Melampyrum cristatum. 



This interesting note is given in the summary of Meteorological 

 Observations " The rainfall was 27"66 inches, more than 4 inches below 

 the average for 41 years, which is 31'96. There have now been eleven 

 years out of the past twelve deficient in rainfall, the nett deficiency on 

 these twelve years, compared with the 41 years mean, is 30'09 inches, 

 but as compared with the mean of the preceeding 30 years, it is no less 

 than 37 inches, or something like 10 per cent. This appears to be a 

 serious depletion of the underground reservoirs in the chalk from which 

 wells and springs are supplied." 



The curious story of the romance, suicide, and subsequent laying of 

 the ghost of Mr. Eeeve, of Hewish Farm, is reprinted from Vol. x. of 

 Household Words, published in 1854. 



Wilts and Dorset by Fen and Camera, an Historical, 

 Pictorial, and Descriptive Guide. Part i. Wilts. 



Price Sixpence net. 1906. Printed and published by W. Mate & Sons, 

 Limited, Bournemouth, Southampton, London, and Lymington. 



14|in. X lOyin. , wrappers. Wilts portion, pp. 52, with forty-six good 

 process views of places of interest in Wiltshire, in additition to a great 

 number of advertising photos of shops on the alternate pages. The 

 illustrations are : — Salisbury : Market Place, Poultry Cross, Close Gate, 



