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The analysis of the Kestrels’ pellets likewise determines its usual food, 
though, as these pellets are not found in quantities together, like those of 
Owls, but here and there sparingly, the same amount of certainty cannot 
be guaranteed. Most of those that have come under my personal notice 
have been composed entirely of the wing-cases of all sorts of beetles and 
the wings of flies, and sometimes the remains of a small Vole or Mouse, 
but I have never discovered the remains of birds or Rabbits. Indeed the 
bird is hardly large enough to attack the latter successfully, though a 
gamekeeper giving evidence before the Vole Plague Committee says :—“ I 
have also seen one lift a young Rabbit.” Whether “lift” is used in the 
Scotch sense of ‘carry off,” or merely to “raise from the ground,” does not 
appear; but the fact is unimportant in any case, and the Committee rightly 
came to the conclusion that ‘‘the food of this bird is known to consist 
almost exclusively of Mice, Grasshoppers, coleopterous insects and their 
larvee.” 
Pror. ALEXANDER AGassiz, after serving the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for thirty-five years, has resigned 
his position as Director and Curator. Dr. W. McM. Woodworth has been 
appointed Assistant in charge of the Museum.—Atheneum. 
THE Society for the Biological Exploration of the Dutch Colonies has 
organized a scientific expedition to Java, which is to start next October 
under the direction of Dr. Max Weber, Professor of Zoology at Amsterdam. 
The object of the expedition, which is to last about a year, is the zoologi- 
cal, botanical, and oceanographical exploration of the seas of the Indian 
Archipelago. 
Mr. F. G. Arato, writing to the ‘ Times’ from Mevagissey, Cornwall 
(August), states :— 
Sharks positively swarm just now in the 20-fathom water between 
Plymouth and the Land’s End. I have been catching both the Blue and 
