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A'e-ivs from ihe Magazines. 



I am very sorry to say that although all went well until July 

 iith, on which date the bird was still comfortably sitting, on 

 Jul 3^ 15th, w^hen Robinson went down, the eggs had been washed 

 away. There had been a tremendous storm of wind and rain, and 

 the water had come some six yards or so beyond the nest. This 

 is a most unfortunate occurrence, and although the birds were 



rhoto by V Oyster Catcher on Nest. [Oxicy Grabham 



about, Robinson could not see that they had any intention of 

 nesting again when he last wrote to me on August ist ; but we 

 may hope now that they have started nesting once more in the 

 district, that they will do so next year. 



Robinson states in his letter that there were more young 

 Terns on the wing in the middle of July than he had ever seen 

 before. 



NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



n The Entomologist for May, IMr. Claude jNIorley writes that two new 

 species described in his ' British Iclmeumons ' turn out to be from New 

 Zealand, and are not British. 



A list of the ' Land and Freshwater Mollusca in the Scarborough 

 District ' is contributed to the July Journal of Conchology by Mr. J. A. 

 Hargreaves. 



British Birds for August contains a ' Piiotographic Supplement,' in 

 which is reproduced a series of photographs taken bv Miss E. L. Turner, 

 .-showing the extraordinary^ behaviour of a Water Rail. 



Homalium brevicolle Thoms., a new British beetle, is described in the 

 May Entomologists' Monthly Magazine. The specimen was captured in 

 carrion at Great Salkeld. 



In the July Irish Naturalist Mr. R. F. Scharff figures and describes a 

 speckled otter, trapped in Lough Sheelin. The only otiier record of a 

 ■speckled otter the author has noticed is of one supposed to be m the 

 Hancock Museum, Newcastle. As that specimen seems to ha\-e disap- 

 peared, the Irish example is unique. 



