required in which to display the cases, and from the museum thus formed the life-history of every British bird can be deduced more readily than from acres of printed matter. At present large photographs of the cases are being taken, and probably, when about one hundred are available, they will be published in book form. In view of the magnitude of the task before him, Mr. Coburn sometimes speaks despairingly of the prospect of completing it. But it is to be hoped that more rapid progress will become possible in the future.—Birmingham Daily Mail.
Alas! poor Heron. We extract the following paragraph from a weekly contemporary:—"The Heron does not seem to be a popular bird with proprietors of Trout streams. One gentleman has the following recipe for getting rid of the luckless feathered fisherman: 'Bait a night-line with a Trout threaded from head to tail with a long needle, leaving the points of the hooks outside the corners of the Trout's mouth. Attach the bait to a night-line, pegged down securely, and put the lure into the water on the shallow where the Heron comes to feed. If the line is properly leaded to keep the bait in position, you will have your Heron to a dead certainty, and can lead him home like a dog on a chain next morning.'" We commend this information to the Society whom it most concerns.
