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rapidly decreased as a breeding species, and the last nesting of which 

 I have a record was in 1905. Nowadays it is an all but unknown 

 bird, and very rarely heard, even as a passing migrant. — J. Steele 

 Elliott (Dowles Manor, Salop). 



Former Nesting of Shoveler Duck in Warwickshire. — It may be of 



interest to put on record the former nesting of this species in War- 

 wickshire. Until at least as late as 1891 a pair had nested regularly 

 for several years at the pool near Middleton Hall. Although I 

 frequently saw these duck and their young, I could never find the 

 actual site of nest. On May 6th, 1894, I have a note of flushing a 

 pair from the cover alongside the large pool in Packington Park, 

 which were probably nesting there also. Two years previously the 

 gamekeeper on that estate informed me only Mallard and Teal bred 

 in that locality. On the several large pools in Sutton Coldfield Park 

 I have only known the Shoveler as a rare visitant in the winter 

 months. — J. Steele Elliott (Dowles Manor, Salop). 



OBITUAEY. 

 James William Tutt. 



James William Tutt died on January 10th, 1911, at the early 

 age of fifty-two. After long service as a Headmaster under the 

 London Education Authority, he had recently been, appointed to the 

 Morpeth Street Central School, the first of a new departure in 

 Higher Grade Schools. 



For the last quarter of a century Mr. Tutt has been in the fore- 

 front of entomology in England. As Editor of the ' Entomologists 

 Eecord,' and author of many books, papers, lectures, and addresses, 

 he is known to entomologists throughout the world ; to him the 

 junior Societies largely owe their present prosperity, and the Ento- 

 mological Society of London owes him much in a largely increased 

 membership, and in its business affairs being placed on a more 

 secure footing. At the time of his death he was President-nominate, 

 and had he lived a week longer would have been President. His 

 most important work was, however, his ' British Lepidoptera,' of 

 which the ninth volume was nearing completion. This work is a 

 monument to his untiring industry and of his wide grasp both of 



