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year 1 found a nest of a Snipe (Gallinarfo gallinago) with two eggs 

 only, one dark, the other pale. Subsequently two more pale eggs 

 were laid. Of course I cannot be certain, but I should be inclined 

 to say that the dark egg was the first laid, judging by my experi- 

 ence with other nests of this species and the Redshank, where the 

 dark Qgg has been the first laid. I also found a nest of the 

 Meadow-Pipit [Anthus jjratensis) with one egg dark brown, and 

 three pale grey. The following day a further pale grey Qgg was 

 laid, which completed the clutch. 



"In looking through my series I find in clutches of Robin, White- 

 throat, Great Tit, Golden-crested Wren and M-igpie, where there is 

 an odd egg it is pale, but in those of the Blackbird, Carrion-Crow, 

 Curlew, Tree-Pipit, Meadow-Pipit, Lesser Tern, Common Tern, 

 Skylark, Kestrel, Redshank, Snipe, and Corn-Bunting, both pale 

 and dark eggs occur, whereas in the Lapwing and Kentish Plover 

 the ground-colour is sometimes paler or darker in one egg, the 

 surface-markings being pretty equal in all eggs in the clutch. 

 Ringed Plover clutches do not as a rule contain an odd Qgg, but 

 I have one in which three eggs are blotched and the fourth finely 

 spotted, and another clutch is exactly the reverse." 



MARCH 27th, 1915. 



Field Meeting at Oxshott and Claygate. 



Leader, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. 



To hold a Field Meeting at so early a date was quite an innova- 

 tion. It was thought by the Council that given suitable weather 

 there would be the possibility of procuring several of the early 

 species of Lepidoptera in some number. Fate, however, was not 

 favourable, for the wind was biting, and although the ramble was a 

 very pleasant one, leading as it did through grounds that are usually 

 closed to the naturalist, nothing was recorded except a solitary 

 specimen of Hibeniia lencopJuearia. 



APRIL 8th, 1915. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. , in the chair. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited specimens of the N. American 

 butterfly Vapilio ajax with its seasonal dimorphic form telamonides. 



