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Interesting items in this report are the following : a Blue- 

 headed Wagtail (M. flava) at St. Catherine's Light, Isle of 

 Wight on the night of April 27th- 28th, and at Shipley, Yorks., 

 on May 2nd and 3rd, 1908 ; Nightingales (D. luscinia) in 

 Cheshire (? locality) ; the Continental Robin (E. r. rubecula) at 

 St. Catherine's Light, on March 25th and April 23rd, 1908 ; 

 Woodchat ((L. pomeranus) in Cornwall, on May 12th, 1908; 

 two Montagu's Harriers (C. cineraceus) in Surrey, on April 

 8th, 1908 ; Hobby (F. subbuteo), in Cornwall, on May 7th, 

 1908 ; Garganey (Q. circia), in Dorset, on April 27th, and in 

 Kent, on May 2nd, 1908 ; two Avocets (R. avocetta) in Kent, 

 on May 17th and 26th, 1908 ; Black Terns (H. nigra) in 

 Cheshire, on April 29th, in Yorkshire, on April 30th, and in 

 Kent (three pairs) on May 2nd, 1908 ; the nesting of a pair of 

 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (L. fuscus), in Kent, in the spring 

 of 1908. 



The value of these reports is very high and is very 

 largely increased as each fresh one is added to the series. 



H. F. W. 



We have received the Transactions of the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society (Vol. VIII. , Part V.), in which 

 we note an article on " Bird-life in the Meres," by W. G. Clarke, 

 who observed two Ruddy Sheld-Ducks on Langmere, on 

 April 13th, 1906 ; the " Additions to the Birds of Norfolk," by 

 J. H. Gurney and T. Southwell, bring the total up to 317 ; 

 most of these have already been reported in our pages, but 

 we note the occurrence of a Blue-headed Wagtail (31. f. flava), 

 on May 3rd, 1908, and the omission of one already recorded 

 (Vol. II., p. 237). 



In Mr.Charles Whymper's Egyptian Birds (A. & C. Black, 20s. 

 net), British ornithologists will find some charming coloured 

 pictures— a good many of the subjects being of birds on the 

 British list. Mr. Whymper has also made a few remarks on 

 the winter habits of migrants, such as the Bluethroat, which 

 he has heard "singing most enchantingly " in the end of 

 March, and the Reed- Warbler, which he has frequently heard 

 singing in the winter. 



The well-known American ornithologist, Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman, has much of special interest to bird-photographers 

 in his Gamps and Cruises of an Ornithologist (New York: 

 Appleton, 3 dollars). There are 250 photographic illus- 

 trations, and although the book is mainly devoted to 



