. The Avicultural magazine . o our columns,from the embryology of the Ostrich to the habits of the Albatrossesof the Pacific. Tlie Magazine is indeed lionoured by such con-tributors. The Council appreciates warmly these and many, manyothers who have brought the Society through four years of war. Nothing in this world stands still ; as the old proverb has it,not to go forwards is to go back. The dawn of peace gives oppor-tunity for an avicultural stock-taking, for a review of the newaviculture, modified and transformed in many ways by the long war,moulded and remoulded by forces beyond the cont
. The Avicultural magazine . o our columns,from the embryology of the Ostrich to the habits of the Albatrossesof the Pacific. Tlie Magazine is indeed lionoured by such con-tributors. The Council appreciates warmly these and many, manyothers who have brought the Society through four years of war. Nothing in this world stands still ; as the old proverb has it,not to go forwards is to go back. The dawn of peace gives oppor-tunity for an avicultural stock-taking, for a review of the newaviculture, modified and transformed in many ways by the long war,moulded and remoulded by forces beyond the control of any of us,embodying all that was best in the old system, yet with newcharacters of its own. The last issue was a number in the old style; next monthsMagazine will be in the new—a selected issue, featuring paperstypical of each department of the Societys activities, illustratingtlie dictum of Stanley Houghton : Its the younger fteneralion that always wins : thats how the world goes on. G. E. The Avicultural Photo, by R. T. Littlejohns and S. A. Lawrence. THE HISTORY OF BIRDS NESTS: WHITE-BROWED WOOD-SWALLOW, WITH NEST OF TRAN-SITIONAL TYPE (PLATFORM- TO SAUCER-SHAPE)AS DESCRIBED BY DR. BUTLER. Adlard & Son & West Newman, Ltd. 119 THE AVICULTUPAL riAOAZIINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETYFOR THE STUDY OFFOREIGN & BRITISH BIRDSIN FREEDOM & CAPTIVITY. Third Series.—Yo\. X.—No. 7.—All rights reserved. MAY, 1919. THE HISTORY OF BIRDS^ NESTS. By A. G. Butler, Has any ornithologist ever heard of a fossil hirds nest or evenegg? I never have,^ but, oddly enough, some years ago whengardening I picked a smallish heavy stone out of the earth, soperfectly oval in form that it might well pass for a fossil egg, and Ikept it as a puzzling curiosity. Having, therefore, no positiveevidence of the existence of prehistoric nests, one is thrown backupon imagination and probability. I regard a lively imagination asan important acquisition ; it may open the
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