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the leg of a nesting bird, and no ringing had taken place at 
this colony previous to the year before, but the ring was not 
examined and the bird may have been ringed elsewhere. 
There is proof that certain Passeres with a distinctive first 
summer plumage do breed when one year old; there is also 
proof that some species of waders, ducks, gulls, skuas and 
the Gannet do not, but little is known and the whole subject 
would well repay careful investigation.—H. F. W.] 
WrttiamM WeELt~ts BLADEN, who died at Stafford, on 
April 12th, 1917, was for many years secretary of the North 
Staffordshire Field Club and President in 1895, and was born 
at Wolverhampton, May 9th, 1847. He is best known to 
ornithologists by his address on *‘ The Cuckoo and its Foster 
Parents ” (Rep. and Trans. of the N. Staff. Field Club 1896, 
pp. 23-39), with a list of fosterers in whose nests the eggs had 
been found, comprising 122 European species, while twenty- 
three additional Asiatic forms are added on pp. 38-39. He 
published a translation of Dr. Rey’s paper on the variation 
of Cuckoo’s eggs in the Zoologist (1899, pp. 176-178) and 
contributed some notes on birds to the Report and Trans. of 
the N. Staffs. Field Club from 1906 onwards. He had been in 
failing health for some time past and had been obliged to give 
up all active work. 
ERRATUM.—antea, p. 72, line 13, for 1910 read 1905. 
EGGS MENTIONED IN Ootheca Wolleyana AS TAKEN IN 
Hotianp.—Ardea (Vol. VI., 1917, pp. 21-32) contains a 
paper by A. A. van Pelt Lechner on the eggs of Dutch origin 
mentioned in Ootheca Wolleyana. The spelling of place 
names is corrected in several places, and attention is called 
to the fact that an egg of the Kite (Milvus milvus) obtained 
by Newton from Newcombe in 1852 is apparently the only 
known specimen of Dutch origin. The White-eyed Duck 
(Nyroca nyroca) was only proved definitely to breed in 
Holland in 1914 by Dr. van Oort, but it is interesting to 
note that Newton possessed four specimens taken by J. Baker 
at Ouderkerk in 1856, which agree closely with eggs from 
Algeria and Hungary. 
BirTERN IN Lewis, OutTER HEepripes.—Mr. D. MacKenzie 
states (Scot. Nat., 1917, p. 70) that an example of Botawrus 
s. stellaris was found in an exhausted condition at Carloway, 
Loch Roag, on the island of Lewis, on January 30th, 1917. 
- The bird has very rarely been noted in the Outer Hebrides. 
