202 AWc.v (iiid C 'oniDicufs. 



island.' Many of tlie skins enable Mr. Clarke to describe for the 

 first time the youn<^ and immature sta<jes of some of the birds. 

 Mr. Clarke's monoicraph is illustrated by coloured plates and 

 several blocks from photog'raphs, one of which the editor of the 

 Ibis' kindly permits us to reproduce. 



A DEFORMED .STOAT. 



In the recently issued 'Transactions of the Lincolnshire 



Naturalists' Union,' the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe Peacock has a 



paper on 'The Stoat and its Ways,' in which he says that 



plenty of proof exists that the male will destroy or maim the 



young' at times. Tailless and injured stoats are recorded, and 



from the peculiar character of their losses, the work of the male 

 may be suspected.' The accompanying photograph, which we 

 are permitted to reproduce, shows a stoat ' destitute of both 

 fore limbs, taken off close to the body, not in the least like the 

 way a trap could injure one.' 



im:ri:(}rines at i-lamhorolch. 



' At a recent meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union al 

 Flamborough, the members obser\ed with pleasure that a pair 

 of pereg'rine falcons have al last successfully nested on the cliffs. 

 The Union's Wild Birds' Protection Committee was represented 

 by some of the leading ornithologists in the North of England, 

 and has ofTered a reward to the men in charge of that particular 



Naturalist, 



