The Bird Isles of Wales The Oxford meeting is likely
to be famous, if one may say so, for its sequel. A special train and naval craft will conduct a party to. Tenby and three of the islands that lie off the West Coast thereabouts. These little islands are as wonderful as the Galapagos in the Pacific to which Mr. Beeke, that great American ornithologist, led a stirring expedition. Mr. Lockley, a born observer as well as a charming writer, is on the way to make Skokum as famous the world over as Giidke made Heligoland. His armies of shearwaters are a parallel to Giidke's willow warblers ; and his general observations, both of semi-residents and of migrants, have very definitely added to the sum of scientific knowledge. More than this, his tales of his birds are as- exciting as the best literature.
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