3o8 News from the Magazines. 



I am very sorry to say that although all went well until July 

 nth, on which date the bird was still comfortably sitting, on 

 July 15th, when Robinson went down, the eggs had been washed 

 away. There had been a tremendous storm of wind and rain , and 

 the water had come some six yards or so beyond the nest. This 

 is a most unfortunate occurrence, and although the birds were 



photo by \ Oyster Catcher on Nest. \OxUy Grabham 



about, Robinson could not see that they had any intention of 

 nesting again when he last wrote to me on August ist ; but we 

 may hope now that they have started nesting once more in the 

 district, that they will do so next year. 



Robinson states in his letter that there were more young 

 Terns on the wing in the middle of July than he had ever seen 

 before. 



NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



n The Entomologist for May, IMr. Claude jMorley writes that two new 

 species described in his ' Britisii Ichneumons ' turn out to be from New 

 Zealand, and are not British. 



A list of the ' Land and Freshwater Mollusca in the Scarborough 

 District ' is contributed to the July Journal of Conchology by Mr. J. A. 

 Hargreaves. 



British Birds for August contains a 'Photographic Supplement,' in 

 which is reproduced a series of photograpiis taken by Miss E. L. Turner, 

 showing the extraordinary behaviour of a Water Rail. 



Homaliiim brevicolle Thoms., a new British beetle, is described in the 

 May Entomologists' Monthly Magazine. The specimen was captured in 

 carrion at Great Salkeld. 



In the July Irish Naturalist Mr. R. F. Scharff figures and describes a 

 speckled otter, trapped in Lough Sheelin. The only other record of a 

 speckled otter the author has noticed is of one supposed to be in the 

 Hancock Museum, Newcastle. As that specimen seems to ha\e disap- 

 peared, the Irish example is unique. 



