746 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. [Ibis, 



to cut up. Therefore I feel sure it would be greatly appre- 

 ciated if members on opening and reading their current copy 

 of 'The Ibis' knew that thev could on payment receive a 

 separate of any article which specially referred to their own 

 branch of the subject or locality. One is chary of writing 

 to members personally unknown to ask for a present of one 

 of their separates. 



Yours truly, 

 c/o Messrs. King, King & Co., Hugh Whistler. 



Bombay. 

 16 June, 1918. 



[This matter will be considered by the Committee. — Ed.] 



The Birds of the Somme Valley. 



Deak Sir, — I should like to add a few more species to the 

 list of those mentioned in my article " Ornithological and 

 Oological Notes from the River Somme Valley/' that you 

 were good enough to publish in the July 1918 number of 

 ' The Ibis.' 



Although the following species did not occur actually in 

 the Somme valley, they were found only a few miles north 

 of it, namely, in the vicinity of Montreuil-sur-Mer, and 

 they help to make my article more complete, and, I hope, 

 more interesting. 



Pernis apivorus. Honey-Buzzard. 



A nest of this species found early in May by a friend. 

 Two typical eggs considerably incubated on 11 June. The 

 nest Avas in a beech-tree, and was a large structure copiously 

 lined with green beech-leaves and branches. The old birds 

 were very confiding, and, except for the difficulty of seeing 

 them when at rest, they were constantly observed. They 

 were extremely silent, and only once was a note heard by 

 one, personally, and that curiously enough appeared to one 

 to resemble that of the Common Buzzard. 



