288 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The Geog. Range—'' Florida to New York " (Baird). 



694. Sterna frenata, Gambel — The Least Tern. 



" 3 eggs. Cobbs Island, Virginia, 2/6/68. Nest in a hole 

 scratched in the sand." (F. Egg Bk. Mus. F. and H.-B., 

 p. 104). 



The Geog. Bange — "Texas to Labrador; western rivers " (Baird). 



697. Rhynchops nigra, Lin. — Black Skimmer. 



" 3 eggs, taken by myself on Cobbs Island, Virginia, 6/6/71. 

 The two marked " 8 " are from the same nest. The] birds were 

 just beginning to lay when I started for home, so that I did not 

 succeed in getting a single full set of 3 eggs. They merely 

 scratch a hole in the sand, without any "lining, and so close 

 together, that I could often have walked some distance stepping 

 on a nest each time." (F. Egg Bk. Mus. F. and H.-B,, p. 191). 



The Geog. Range — "From Texas to New Jersey" (Baird). 



I hope occasionally to be able to give you some further > 

 notes similar to the above. I believe they would prove useful 

 to any person going out from this country to collect, and 

 serve as a guide to locality, time of year when the different 

 species are found nesting, materials of nests, and other matters 

 of interest. 



January 5th, 1875. 



Mr James Eamsay, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr David D. M'Lellan was elected an ordinary member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Chairman exhibited a number of large galls found on a 

 small foreign oak growing in Queen's Park, and which he was of 

 opinion is Quercus infedoria, a native of Asia Minor and Northern 

 Africa, on which the galls of commerce are found. The specimens 

 exhibited are equal in size to those brought from the Levant, but 

 are of a less firm texture, being internally of the consistence of 

 cork, and containing very little gallic acid ; they would seem to 



