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kc'king came from the ground almost at his feet. He advanced 
a little further, when looking over a knoll of heather, he saw 
two hen Merlins locked in each others talons. He watched 
them for a minute or two and says he could have picked 
them up. However they eventually separated out and flew 
away. A nest was situated in the clump of heather at the time. 
I believe the average Merlin does very little harm on a 
grouse moor, and keepers I know, who afford it every protection, 
believe they lose little or nothing by so doing. Certainly 
they are a most delightfully sporting bird, and if they 
deprive us of all our rapacious birds, we shall have lost some 
of the most interesting species to be found on this island. 
The Journal of the Northants Natural History Society and Field Club 
for 1913, besides many notes of antiquarian and general interest, includes 
some very interesting notes on the Waters and Wells of Northants, by 
Mr. It. Thompson ; notes on the birds of the county by Mr. J. D. Cotton ; 
A pium Moorei (Druce) in Northants, by Mr. G. C. Druce ; Notes on Alg t 
by Mr. G. H. Goode ; Additions to the Herbarium, and Meteorological 
Reports. 
The Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical Society for 1912 have 
just reached us, and contains the following papers : — the President’s 
Address on ‘ Species, Varieties, and Hybrids,’ by Professor F. E. Weiss ; 
‘ The Microscopical Examination of Metals,’ by G. E. Buttenshaw ; • ‘ On 
the Podura Scale,' by E. W. Napper ; ‘ The Myxophucee,’ by Charles 
Turner, and ‘ The Preservation and Storing of Photographic Negatives,’ 
bv R. Pettigrew. There is also an account of the rambles. The Society 
is to be congratulated on the continuance of its excellent work. 
Volume XIX. of the Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian 
Society (A. Brown & Sons) contains two papers by the Rev. C. V. Collier, 
viz., ‘ Documents at Burton Agnes,’ and ‘ Some East Riding Disputes.’ 
Colonel Saltmarshe gives ‘ East Riding Levies for the Scotch Wars in 
the Reign of Edward II. and III., with Remarks on the Feudal System ’ ; 
Canon Lambert writes on the ‘ Trade Gilds of Beverley,’ and the Editor, 
Mr. Sheppard, gives a lengthy article on ’ East Yorkshire History in 
Plan and Chart,’ illustrated by reproductions of several old maps. 
Annual Reports, Proceedings, etc., of the Barrow Naturalists’ Field 
Club, etc., Vol. XX., for the years 1910-1912, published 1913. In this 
part the Barrow Society has brought its Proceedings up to date. Besides 
records of the work of the different sections, the publication contains 
abstracts of papers read on various subjects, such as Australia, dreams, 
saxifrages, fungi, wit and humour, Ireland, proverbs, Michael Angelo, 
Xew Zealand, etc. Perhaps the most valuable contribution is by Mr. 
George Grace, and deals with the Glacial Geology of the district around 
Barrow. 
The Proceedings of the Liverpoool Geological Society, in addition to 
the presidential address of Mr. C. B. Travis, contain geological notes on 
‘ Recent Dock Excavations at Liverpool and Birkenhead,’ and also ‘ Man’s 
Place in the Geological Record,’ by J. C. M. Given ; ‘ Notes on Recent 
Excavations in Lime Street and Church Street, Liverpool ’ by T. A. 
Jones ; ‘ Some Xotes on the Geology of the Antarctic,’ by A. W. Harris ; 
‘ The Storeton Find of 1912,’ and ‘ Note on a Map of the Faults in The 
Neighbourhood of Storeton, made by the late Mr. G. H. Morton,’ by H. C. 
Beasley ; and ‘ The Boulder Clay of North Wirral, ’ by W. T. Walker. 
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