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required in which to display the cases, and from the museum thus 

 formed the life-history of every British bird can be deduced more 

 readily than from acres of printed matter. At present large photo- 

 graphs of the cases are being taken, and probably, when about one 

 hundred are available, they will be published in book form. In view 

 of the magnitude of the task before him, Mr. Coburn sometimes speaks 

 despairingly of the prospect of completing it. But it is to be hoped 

 that more rapid progress will become possible in the future. — Birming- 

 ham Daily Mail. 



Alas ! poor Heron. We extract the following paragraph from a 

 weekly contemporary : — " The Heron does not seem to be a popular 

 bird with proprietors of Trout streams. One gentleman has the 

 following recipe for getting rid of the luckless feathered fisherman : 

 ' Bait a night-line with a Trout threaded from head to tail with 

 a long needle, leaving the points of the hooks outside the corners of 

 the Trout's mouth. Attach the bait to a night-line, pegged down 

 securely, and put the lure into the water on the shallow where the 

 Heron comes to feed. If the line is properly leaded to keep the bait in 

 position, you will have your Heron to a dead certainty, and can lead 

 him home like a dog on a chain next morning.' " We commend this 

 information to the Society whom it most concerns. 



