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besides the small common kinds, Pheasants, Wood-Pigeons, 

 Turtle-Doves, Partridges, Great and Lesser Spotted Wood- 

 peckers, and Cuckoos ; he has seen a Teal chased very hard, 

 and a young Moorhen picked off a pool ; Blue Tits were brought 

 to a nest he watched "more often than might be expected." 

 Mr. H. W. Eobinson, in the February number, records the 

 results of ringing Black-headed Gulls, and a very gratifying 

 ringing record is that by Mr. J. S. Allison, in the April number, 

 of his having rung, fed and released a Little Gull — no doubt the 

 first, as he suggests, to be rung under the scheme — which had 

 been caught in a Plover-net near Louth, Lincolnshire. On the 

 same page Mr. Clifford Borrer records seeing a Glaucous Gull in 

 St. James's Park among Herring- Gulls. As he speaks of its 

 " milky-white " plumage, it could surely not have been adult as 

 he suggests, the stage in which the plumage is creamy-white 

 all over being intermediate between the mottled young plumage 

 and the grey-backed white adult dress, in which the most 

 obvious difference from the Herring- Gull (besides the size) is the 

 absence of black on the primaries. The disappearance of some 

 Bearded Tits introduced from Holland, at Hornsea Mere, is 

 noted from the ' Naturalist,' to the satisfaction of the editors, 

 who deprecate "this interference with Nature." They have, 

 however, nothing to say against the destruction of six Dusky 

 Thrushes (Turdus fuscatus) recorded in April also, five of which 

 were shot at the same spot, at Hollington, in Sussex, and 

 included both sexes, between January and March ; evidently 

 they think that, though it is interfering with Nature artificially 

 to extend the range of a species, there is no interference about 

 killing down the pioneers, when extension of range is taking place 

 naturally ! There are, of course, in these numbers plenty of 

 other records of the killing of birds found outside their usual 

 range, but none so far new to the country. A remarkable note 

 is that of Mr. H. E. Forrest in the January number of the fowl- 

 like tameness of a Bedwing in Shropshire, which for a fortnight 

 had accompanied a man employed in spreading sods, to feed on 

 small life exposed. In the March number Mr. 0. G. Pike has 

 some notes and fine photographs of the Fulmar at home. In 

 the June number Mr. A. H. Macpherson records a Mistle-Thrush 

 singing on the wing, and Mr. E. H. Wendy has a similar record 



