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The Society's Medal.



rences within them. The part concludes with a coloured plate

of immature Grasshopper Warblers. There is no doubt that this

is a beautiful and useful book ; but there is a tendency through¬

out to under- rattier than over-colour the plates, so that there is

a sameness about them which one does not find in the living

birds; for this reason we much prefer the photogravures.


Ed. pro. tern.



BRITISH BIRDS.


The April number includes an interesting article on the

Breeding Habits of the Common Bittern, by E. W. Wade.

Messrs. H. F. Witherby and N. F. Ticehurst write respecting the

spread of the Little Owl from the chief centres of its introduction

into the British Islands; they also continue their account of the

more important additions to our knowledge of British Birds since

1899, and Mr. W. P. Pycraft has an admirable article (with illus¬

tration of the breast, with some feathers removed to show the

patch of “ powder-down ” feathers) entitled “ The ‘ Powder-down’

of the Heron.” Among the notes is an interesting one, with

illustration, of a Swallow’s nest built on a glass gas-shade; and

a second of a Martin’s nest built 011 a window-pane ; these nests

being presumably attached to the glass by means of sticky saliva

secreted by glands as in the Edible Swift. The White-winged

Lark is recorded as having been shot on the first day of the

present year at Pevensey Sluice, Sussex, and is illustrated by a

photogravure of the stuffed bird. Other more or less interesting

notes conclude the part. Ed. pro. tem.



THE SOCIETY’S MEDAL.



Medals have been awarded to Mr. T. H. Newman for

breeding the Madagascar Turtle-Dove (Turturpicturatus) and to

Mr. W. E. Tescliemaker for breeding the Chingolo Song-Sparrow

(.Zono trichi a. pileata ) and the Hedge-Accentor (Acce?i/or modularis)

for the first time in this country.



