. British birds. Birds. REVIEWS The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist (Vol. I., No. 4 February 25th, 1909). This number of the Journal of the Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History Society contains plenty to interest the ornithologist. The Society is much to be congratulated upon its vigour, and especially upon its strength in energetic and capable ornithological members—we beheve it can boast of more 's among its members than any other local natural history society. The most important paper (pp. 153-173, plates ) in this number is one by our own contributor, Mr. W. H.
. British birds. Birds. REVIEWS The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist (Vol. I., No. 4 February 25th, 1909). This number of the Journal of the Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History Society contains plenty to interest the ornithologist. The Society is much to be congratulated upon its vigour, and especially upon its strength in energetic and capable ornithological members—we beheve it can boast of more 's among its members than any other local natural history society. The most important paper (pp. 153-173, plates ) in this number is one by our own contributor, Mr. W. H. Mullens, on " Gilbert White and ; In this paper, which originally took the form of a lecture delivered before the 12th Congress of the South- Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, Mr. Mullens traces, with great care and thoroughness, Gilbert White's intimate connec- tion with Sussex, and especially with the villages of Harting, near Petersfield, and Ringmer, near Lewes. He used to journey into Sussex frequently, and he greatly loved the Downs, of which he wrote : " I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration every time I traverse ; There he saw Great Bustards and Kites, while along the chalky cliffs of the Sussex shore " the Cornish Chough builds, I know," he writes to Barrington. A careful paper is that by Mr. M. J. Nicoll on the Pipits which occur in the Hastings district. Here is recorded the fact, which we do not remember to have seen in print before, that a pair of Tavmy Pipits '' undoubtedly bred in Sussex in 1905, and again, possibly, the following year," while in 1906 Mr. Nicoll saw an adult bird collecting nesting materials (p. 183). Amongst the " Annual Notes," by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, we may note the following interesting records, which we do not think have been previously referred to :—Red-footed Falcon, Ashford, June 10th, 1908; Night-Heron, Lydd, October 3rd, 1906;. Sp
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