Travelling Birds It will delight the heart of all students
of birds to know that a third station for the purpose of studying -the trawls of birds is to be prepared. The best and first was Mr. Lockley's on the island of Skokohn, off the coast of Pem- brokeshire. It becomes as famous as Heligoland became after Giidks published his first records which remain an inspiration ; . and the lively account of his great cage, con- tributed to the latest number of the Countryman (Idbury Manor, Oxon., 2s. 6d.), will bring comparison with Giidlts yet nearer. .A second station is also insular—on the island of May—and a third is meditated by Mr. Garnett en the NorfOlk coast. Mr. Garnett has already done yeoman work. It is a liberal education to talk with him at the humble pitch. where he keeps a fond watch on the birds and a hostile watch on their enemies. He has written one of the most exhaustive and condensed hand guides to the identification of birds, The Ornithologists' Field Notebook (publiihed by Bounce and*
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Wortley, Holt, Norfolk) ; and if he is to elaborate his observations on migration, science may feel confident of its servant. Incidentally I see that a snipe ringed in Iceland has just been shot near Waterford. * * * *
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