268 THE RETROSPECT. THE QUERIST. 



Monthly Meeting; or otherwise an Annual Subscription of five shillings, due 

 on the 1st. of January. 



VII. — If a person leaves the Society, but wishes to re-enter within six 

 months after he has ceased to be a Member, he shall be eligible on paying 

 up the arrears to the time of his re-entry. 



VIII. — Any person anxious to join this Society, must, at the ensuing 

 Meeting, be proposed, and if such proposition is passed he shall be accepted 

 as a Member, and intimation given him to attend the next Meeting. 



IX. — There shall be a library in connexion with the Society; but no 

 Member shall be allowed more than one book at a time, which book he can 

 retain a fortnight; but if kept beyond that period he shall be fined at the 

 rate of threepence for each extra week, unless he renews the book, which 

 he shall be allowed to do, provided it has not been applied for by other 

 Members. 



X. — Any book lost or damaged shall be made good by the Member losing 

 or injuring it. 



XI. — It shall be optional with the Committee as to whether some books 

 shall circulate. 



XII. — The money belonging to the Society shall, after the payment of 

 necessary expenses, be used to provide works for the instruction of the 

 Members; which works shall be added to the library. 



Robert Anderson, Hon. Sec, Coney Street, York, October 7th., 1858. 



€§t UrtrospEt. 



The Gait of Birds. — I am much obliged to E. K. B. for reminding me of 

 my omission in my article on "The Gait of Birds," in not including the Bittern 

 among those which have the middle toe pectinated. I should have said the 

 Heron tribe. That the same formation was found in the Pelican kind I was 

 not aware of. — O. S. Bound, Bichmond Terrace, Westbourr 

 1858. 



RJ 



€\)i torist. 



In the September number of "The Naturalist" I perceive^T c6rrespondent 

 wishes to find the name of a Tern he had recently killed. From his 

 description I make no doubt of its being the young of the Arctic Tern, 

 a species far more plentiful on the coast of Devon than the so-called 

 Common Tern. The description of the bird in question agrees with that 

 of the Roseate Tern as regards the colour of the bill and peculiarity of 

 voice especially, and were it not for the shortness of its legs I should 

 judge it to be of that species; but the shortness of the tarsi is a char- 

 acteristic which distinguishes the Arctic Tern from every other British 

 species, at any age. — John Gatcombe, Wyndham Place, Plymouth, Sept. 

 18th., 1858. 



