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taken place throughout the world during the six years which it covers. In 

 this opinion we heartily agree and offer our congratulations upon the 

 success of his labors, the trying nature of which we appreciate only too 

 well. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. CCXXXVI. Octo- 

 ber 29, 1918. 



Mr. Meade Waldo described the efforts for the protection of Kites in 

 Wales. 



Mr. P. F. Bunyard exhibited nest feathers and down of the Harlequin 

 Duck from Iceland and remarked on the errors in published descriptions 

 of them. 



Major A. G. Sladen commented upon a collection of birds made in 

 Palestine. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker described a new flycatcher from Siam as Cyornis 

 magnirostris caerulifrons (p. 8). 



Mr. W. L. Sclater succeeded Lord Rothschild as chairman of the Club 

 for the next five-year period. 

 British Birds. XII, No. 4. September, 1918. 



Some Breeding Habits of the Sparrow Hawk. By J. H. Owen. (Con- 

 cluded.) 



Notes on the Autumn Migration at Odessa in 1917. By Maud D. 

 Haviland. 



The Behaviour and Mouth-coloration of Nestling-birds. — By W. R. 

 Butterfield. — Argues for the protective value of these markings and of 

 certain actions in frightening away enemies. 

 British Birds. XII, No. 5. October, 1918. 



Nest Down in Some British Ducks. By Annie C. Jackson. — Relates to 

 fourteen species. 



The Moults and Sequence of Plumages of the British Waders. By Annie 

 C. Jackson, Part VIII. — Covers the genus Totanus and one species of 

 Phalarope. 

 British Birds. XII, No. 6. November, 1918. 



Notes and Observations on the Nesting of the Bullfinch. By Frances 

 Pitt. — With several excellent photographs of the bird at the nest. 



A List of Summer Birds Observed on the Outer Fame Islands. By 

 Edward Miller. 

 Avicultural Magazine. IX, No. 10. August, 1918. 

 Wood-Swallows. A photograph of a pair feeding young. 

 In a review of Beebe's ' Tropical Wild Life,' it is rather amusing to see 

 the violent opposition of the reviewer to the use of the word ' Oriole ' for 

 species of Icteridse. Surely he must be aware that these birds have been 

 known as ' Orioles ' continuously since the very beginnings of American 

 ornithological literature and are now called ' Orioles ' by probably a far 

 larger number of individuals than know the species of Oriolus by that 

 name. We do not question the fact that the name belongs historically to 



