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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



We learn from the Miiseiinis Journal that a prehistoric boat, i8 feet 

 long, dug up near Nantwich, has been deposited in the Chester Museum. 

 To the January number of this journal, Mr. E. Rimbault Dibden, of the 

 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, \vrites a useful paper on ' The Functions 

 of a Municipal Art Museum.' 



In British Birds for February, one article is headed ' Three New British 

 Birds.' Surely this ' New British Bird ' business is becoming a farce. 

 The other day an ornithological correspondent sent us an account of an 

 escaped parrot, as a ' New British Bird ' ; but we treated the matter as 

 a joke ; apparently we ought to have sent the record to our London con- 

 temporary. 



The Nature Photographer, the official organ of the Nature Photographic 

 Society, is issued quarterly, at twopence, and is edited by Mr. Carl Edwards. 

 It contains illustrated notes on Marauding Gulls, Stereoscopic Photo- 

 graphy with an ordinary camera, the Angry Coot, Some Confident Sitters, 

 and Our Book Shelf. The little magazine is evidently intended for nature 

 photographers . 



In The Entomologist, No. 586, Mr. W. Mansbridge describes two new 

 varieties of lepidoptera, as a result of his crossing experiments, and as the 

 varieties are ' permanent and recurrent and found in a wild state,' he 

 proposes new names, and he christens them Boarmia repandata var. nov. 

 Nigro-pallida, and Boarmia repandata var. nov. Ochro-nigra. Oddly 

 enough, these new forms are in the author's own cabinet. 



In the Geological Magazine (No. 572) is an illustrated paper on the 

 ' Tachylite of the Cleveland Dyke,' by Miss M. K. Heslop and Mr. R. C. 

 Burton, and a note on the Fo.ssil Flora of the Ingleton Coalfield, by Mr. 

 E. A. Newell Arber. In the latter it is pointed out that the Ingleton 

 coalfield contains a typical middle coal-measure assemblage, and as a 

 whole, the Ingleton coal-measures seem to be closely related to the York- 

 shire coalfield. 



British Birds for jNIarch does not contain a paper on a New British 

 Bird. This is an improvement. We were going to suggest to Mr. Witherby 

 that the name of his magazine should be changed to New British Birds. 

 The INIarch number contains particulars of the various localities at which 

 the Little Auk has been recorded recently ; and Mr. Mullens reprints his 

 paper on Thomas ]Muffett or Muffet (one form of spelling being given in the 

 paper, and the other in the ' contents '). 



The January number of the Bradford Scientific Journal includes a 

 paper on ' Fish Poisoning in the Wharfe,' a subject we have referred to in 

 our pages ; the House Martin, Vertebrate Zoology report, an avian para- 

 dise, the Lesser Shrew, and ' Memories of the North,' by Messrs. Bolam, 

 Butterheld, H. B. Booth, Harper, and Badland. Typographically, we 

 would suggest an improvement would be made if instead of the frequent 

 large AB's at the end of .some of the notes, the type used were similar to 

 that for the authors of other notes in the journal, viz., ' F. Haxby,' on 

 page 205. 



The Zoologist (No. 848) contains particulars of recent additions to the 

 Lincolnshire avi-fauna, by the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt. They are the Fire- 

 crested Wren, the Lanceolated Warbler, Bearded Titmouse, W^illow Tit, 

 Red Breasted Flycatcher, Snowy Owl, Eagle Owl, Montagu's Harrier, 

 Iceland Falcon, American Peregrine Falcon, Red-footed Falcon, Red- 

 crested Pochard, Pratincole, Black-winged Stilt, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 

 Caspian Tern, and Great Shearwater. Some of these were described at the 

 time in The Naturalist. In the same journal Mr. G. Dalgliesh has a paper 

 on the Whirligig Beetle. 



1912 April I. 



