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much exercised. Irby paid me a visit al the Den. Dined at 

 Zoological Club dinner at (jro.svenor Restaurant at 6 p.m. — Flower, 

 Srlatcr, A. Newton, (liinther, Dresser, O. Salvin, Saunders, Grote, 

 Holdsworth, Forbes, Dobson, Hamilton, another, Waterhouse, and 

 self. Meeting afterwards at 1 1, Hanover Square. Tristram exhibited 

 a very fine skin, and some eggs of the African darter {Plotus 

 levaillanii) from the Lake of Antioch, Newton a specimen of rustic 

 bunting {Emberiza rustled) shot in Yorkshire, and Sclater a stuffed 

 glossy ibis {Plegadis falcinellus) shot last September in Hampshire. 

 Several interesting papers read — one relating to a splendid humming- 

 bird {Loddigesia iiiiral/ilis) from Peru, of which specimens were 

 exhibited. 



November iSf/i. Thick, chilly fog. I went up by appointment 

 to British Museum at 12, where Giinther met me, and showed me 

 the groups of British birds, with nests and eggs, of which he is 

 very justly proud. He also showed me an extraordinary tree-frog 

 from South Americ.T, with perfectly developed young in a bag in 

 its back. 



November i2>th. Fine bright day after heavy rain in the night. 

 I went hunting for some pleasant cage bird in the Seven Dials district, 

 but found nothing that particularly took my fancy. Sabin has a fine 

 white blackbird and a young mocking bird {Aliiniis polyglottis). 



November 20th. Notice in Field of Stone Curlew {(Edicnemtis 

 crepitans), shot at Gayton, near Northampton, October 28th. This is a 

 rare bird in agro northantoniense. 



November 2yd. Very fine and bright. Paul Mollen called on 

 his way back from Valkcnswaard to Lilford, bringing two ash-coloured 

 shrikes alive for me, which have been used at tlie huts for catching 

 the hawks. 



November 25M. The shrikes are very wild, but feed well. 



November 26th. Irby and Edward Acheson called at Den, and 

 I went with former in a cab to Leadenhall Market. Castang has a 

 young male Bonelli's eagle {Psettdaetusbonelli, ^, juv.), two, lanners {Fako 

 fe/deggi), and a young night heron {Nyticorax griseus). Great quantities 

 of capercaillie (Tetiao urogallus) in the market, also some black game 



