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ivy-wall on May 24th. Two days before the nest had contained one 

 Eobin's egg, and, as the owner seemed to have deserted, I took the 

 Cuckoo's egg, which was a very good example of the dark brown 

 type. Four days after the Eobin returned, laid four more eggs, and 

 hatched them off safely. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Eectory, Bury 

 St. Edmunds). 



A Protest. — Mr. W. H. Parkin, by putting the fourth Hne of his 

 note {ante, p. 278) in inverted commas, makes it appear as if he were 

 quoting my words. I am greatly surprised at this misrepresentation 

 of the views I expressed.— O. V. Aplin (Bloxham, Oxon). 



I AM planning a bird photography expedition for next year, and 

 should be extremely obliged for information as to whether Iceland or 

 Norway would be likely to give the better result in a six weeks' trip. 

 If any readers of ' The Zoologist ' care to give an opinion I should 

 be grateful. — Francis Heatherley (" Endellion," Rock Ferry, 

 Cheshire). 



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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion for the Year ending June 30th, 1909. Washington, 

 1910. 



This annual volume has only recently reached our hands, 

 and in its " General Appendix," or reprints of selected scientific 

 memoirs — not a few of them translations — from many sources, 

 and written by authors of different nationalities, are comprised 

 several papers of great interest to zoologists. We can only 

 mention a few of them. Prof. Glangeaud's memoir on " Albert 

 Gaudry and the Evolution of the Animal Kingdom " is trans- 

 lated from the 'Revue generale des Sciences,' Paris, 1909. 

 This great evolutionary palaeontologist and the work he did is 

 well summarized by Prof. Glangeaud : " By the depth of the 

 problems which he studied, by the influences which he exerted, 

 and by his theoretical conceptions, Albert Gaudry stands with 

 Lamarck. But he is also, in virtue of his remarkable observa- 



