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tliat is to say, that it could be taken that young birds 

 moulting in September were batched in May, and those 

 moulting in November were hatched at the beginning of 

 July. 



It is to be regretted that ornithologists who knew subjects 

 '^ for at least a dozen years " do not put more of their 

 knowledge in writing in some recognised scientific journal, 

 so that the tinoie of the student would not be taken up in 

 writing on a subject that is " clearly known to pretty neai-ly 

 everyone.'^ Unfortunately these subjects are not " clearly 

 known to pretty nearly everyone/'' and there are not a lew 

 misstatements carried over from work to work which could 

 with more careful study and less proneness to copy be put 

 right. 



It is my idea to continue these papers^ and to describe 

 on the same lines many of the interesting sequences of 

 plumages of our British Birds, many of which have not yet 

 been fully gone into. 



I am, Sir^ 



Yours, &;c., 

 The Sports Club, C. H. B. Grant. 



St. James' Square, 



August 30th, 1914. 



Sir, — Referring to the plate which illustrates my paper 

 in the last issue of ' The Ibis ^ (p. 403), I desire to say that 

 it is not an accurate reproduction of the original drawing 

 which T was responsible for aud passed for the artist. The 

 proofs of the plate I refused to pass, but the Editor decided 

 that they were sufficientltj good, I disclaim, therefore, all 

 responsibility in the matter. 



I am. Sir, 



Yours, &c., 



Henry O. Forbes. 



RedclifFe, Beaconsfield, Bucks. 

 September 8th, 1914. 



