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during the time they are running on the ground, occasionally 

 get the soft membrane of the feet punctured by contact with 

 sharp thistles and bents, and that small fine grains of sand 

 work their way into these holes, causing inflammation and 

 sores, which gradually increase, owing to the constant irritation 

 caused by continual contact with the sand ; as time goes on 

 the portions of the feet so affected gradually atrophy, and the 

 bird becomes partially or wholly lame. 



F. W. Smalley. 



GREAT CRESTED GREBE, DOUBLE-BROODED. 



I was one of the competitors for the Bird Protection 

 Society's Shield in this year's competition, and I wrote an 

 essay on the Great Crested Grebe, having watched a pair of 

 these birds on one of the ponds in Woburn Park all the year. 

 This pair of birds had two broods, the second brood being 

 hatched the third week in July. As soon as the second 

 brood was hatched the old birds drove the first family off the 

 pond. I used to see the old birds feed the young ones on 

 feathers which they pulled out of their breasts, and the 

 young ones also pulled feathers out of the old birds for them- 

 selves. 



W. Roberts. 



MANX SHEARWATER IN WARWICKSHIRE. 



A Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorum) was picked up at 

 Brownsover about two miles from Rugby, on the night of 

 September 7th, and brought next morning to Mr. H. Boughton 

 Leigh, with whom I was staying. The bird was a female in 

 good condition. Mr. Gunn, of Norwich, to whom it was sent 

 for preservation, mentions having received other examples 

 from Wolverhampton and Dennington (Suffolk) at about 

 the same time. 



A. L. Butler. 

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Death of Dr. E. Rey.— On August 30th, 1909, Dr. Eugene 

 Rey, of Leipzig, the well-known Oologist and specialist in 

 Cuckoo's eggs, died at Leipzig in the seventy-second year of 

 his age. His most valuable work was the Altes und Neues 

 aus dem Haushalte des Kuckucks, published in 1892, and still 

 far too little known to English naturalists. In this work he 

 demonstrated for the first time that each female Cuckoo as a 

 rule deposits her eggs in the nests of one species of bird, and 

 makes use of a limited district for this purpose. All the eggs 



